Follow That Dream (1962)

Elvis Presley: Toby Kwimper

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• Nick : Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five...

  Toby Kwimper : You do the multiplication tables too, Nick?

  Nick : [Nick rolls his eyes at Toby]  Three, two, one.

  [Nick's trailer explodes] 

  Toby Kwimper : Well, I'll be doggone. Your place done blowed up, Nick. It's on fire too.

• Alisha Claypoole : Has anyone ever told you you're very handsome?

  Toby Kwimper : Only girls.

• Nick : What happened?

  Toby Kwimper : They were showing me how I shouldn't get hurt. I wish they would wake up so I could apologize. I don't think they can hear me now.

  Nick : No, I don't think so either.

• Toby Kwimper : It's just like Pop said, women are natural nesters. Just look at the way you took to nesting right here. Cooking dinner and everything, starting from scratch.

  Holly Jones : Well, I would dearly love to know what's so awful about nesting? It's just being married and having a house.

  Toby Kwimper : Well, nothing. Except doing it when you don't want to. I think a man ought to be allowed to wait till he wants to. Women don't aim to let you wait.

• Alisha Claypoole : [giving a word association test]  Steal.

  Toby Kwimper : Home.

  Alisha Claypoole : Oh, you poor boy. You think somebody's trying to steal your home.

  Toby Kwimper : Willie Mays stole home.

  Alisha Claypoole : Who's Willie May?

  Toby Kwimper : Not May, Mays. He's a baseball player.

• Toby Kwimper : I sure hope I didn't say nothing wrong or they'll use it against us as sure as baby rabbits.

• Toby Kwimper : I use my education agin 'em.

  Holly Jones : Your education?

  Toby Kwimper : Multiplication tables. Anytime some pretty gal is standing around bothering me I just close my eyes and I say, one times one is one, and one times two is two and right on through the eights. Most times I only have to get to the sixes and they get disgusted and go away.

  Holly Jones : I can imagine.

  Toby Kwimper : Of course it don't do much good if they hang on through the eights 'cause I forget the nineses. That's what happened that night behind the bowling alley with Gertrude. I forgot the nineses.

• Jack : Louie? I thought I told you to spread out!

  Toby Kwimper : Uhh...

  Jack : Never mind. Stay close. I'm a better shot than you any way. Here take the flashlight.

  Toby Kwimper : [Toby grabs the flashlight and gun]  You know, drunks ought not to be carrying guns.

  Jack : [turns and runs from Toby]  Hey, Louie! Pete!

• Holly Jones : I wonder where the road goes.

  Toby Kwimper : It's hard to tell, just from looking at one end.

• Holly Jones : What did I say that was so funny?

  Toby Kwimper : Oh, nothing. I was just remembering, after your folks died, when Pop took you in. What a skinny, scrawny little thing you were. All eyes and elbows.

• Toby Kwimper : [singing]  Don't kiss me, don't claw me, Don't pet me, don't paw me, I won't leave my freedom behind...

• Toby Kwimper : You're just as happy as a house cat, ain't you?

  Holly Jones : Women like doing things for other people. Don't men ever feel like that?

• Holly Jones : I am 19 years old and I'm kind of well-built.

  Toby Kwimper : Yep, I know that.

• Toby Kwimper : You know anything about sex, Holly?

  Holly Jones : Of course I do.

  Toby Kwimper : Who told you?

  Holly Jones : I don't remember. Never you mind.

• Toby Kwimper : That King fellow is gonna make an awful lot of trouble.

  Pop Kwimper : I'll break him off like a dry twig.

  Toby Kwimper : Well, maybe so, maybe not.

  Pop Kwimper : No maybe about it.

• Toby Kwimper : Get all the shopping done?

  Pop Kwimper : I think so.

  Holly Jones : Did you have enough money for everything?

  Pop Kwimper : Yep, and a couple of luxury items, too. I went to a junkyard and I bought us a john.

  Holly Jones : [admiringly]  Ohhh.

  Pop Kwimper : Ain't it a lover?

  Toby Kwimper : It sure is, Pop.

• Holly Jones : Now, go on.

  Toby Kwimper : Hey, ain't you coming with me?

  Holly Jones : No, I can't go in. I'm not dressed.

  Toby Kwimper : You don't look no crummier than I do.

  Holly Jones : Well, now it's different for a man.

• George : [referring to Holly]  Now, this is Mrs. Kwimper?

  Toby Kwimper : Oh, no, Sir. She just lives with me.

  George : Oh! Well, I didn't mean to pry.

• Nick : Bud, look, we're not neighbors. This is a floating game, see? We just stick around in one place until it gets too hot. Then we move along. Get it?

  Toby Kwimper : Oh, sure. Well, they tell me it don't get hot around here till about the middle of July.

• Toby Kwimper : The State built this here land and the county ain't got no say-so over it, the city neither.

  Nick : Hey, could this be on the level?

  Carmine : You know, It sounds screwy enough, it could be kosher.

  Nick : That's what it sounds like to me. Oh, baby, this kind of a chance comes along once in a lifetime. Carmine, you know this could turn out to be an East Coast Las Vegas.

  Holly Jones : Oh, you mean because there's no police here?

  Nick : Now you're digging it, little lady.

• George : This land that you're living on, well, is it mortgaged?

  Toby Kwimper : I don't know, Sir. We don't own it. We're homesteading.

  George : Well, we can't very well lend you money on property you don't own yet.

  Toby Kwimper : Well, we own our john.

  George : I didn't quite catch that.

  Toby Kwimper : Our john, and I guess we own the house that we built for it, too.

• Alisha Claypoole : You have exquisite proportions. Why, your legs are amazing.

  Toby Kwimper : Hey, that tickles, Ma'am. That tickles.

  Alisha Claypoole : That's because I hit a very sensitive nerve that...

  Holly Jones : [interrupts]  If you have finished tickling Toby's leg, I'd like him to do a chore.

• Alisha Claypoole : Don't you like girls?

  Toby Kwimper : I like girls all right, except when they start to bother me.

  Alisha Claypoole : A young, virile man like you, I should think you'd *love* to be bothered.

  Toby Kwimper : Well, the bothering part is all right, but I ain't gonna marry no girl and build no house just so I can be bothered regular.

• Alisha Claypoole : [giving a word association test]  Sex.

  Toby Kwimper : One times one is one, one times two is two, one times three is three...

• Toby Kwimper : [singing]  When your heart gets restless, time to move along, When your heart gets weary, time to sing a song, But when a dream is calling you, There's just one thing that you can do, Well, you gotta follow that dream wherever that dream may lead, You gotta follow that dream...

• Alisha Claypoole : Oh, well, that's enough work for this afternoon. Let's just lie back and enjoy the afternoon sun. Do you like me like this, Toby?

  Toby Kwimper : You're awful close.

  Alisha Claypoole : Toby, just put your arm around me and do whatever you think of, just like you did in the test.

  Toby Kwimper : I didn't know the government give this kind of test.

• Toby Kwimper : Toby, don't spoil the poetry of it.

• Toby Kwimper : Blackie saw him go down the highway about 20 minutes ago. He's got a broad with him.

• Toby Kwimper : How did you happen to find us, Holly?

  Holly Jones : Well, I just saw you turn off the highway and I followed the dirt road till the tire tracks stopped.

  Toby Kwimper : Smart girl. Good tracking.

  Alisha Claypoole : Just like an Indian squaw.

• Toby Kwimper : A lot of folks would rather take a licking.

• Judge : Are you defending yourself or making a confession?

  Toby Kwimper : I'm just trying to tell what happened. Is that all right?

  Judge : Well, it's pretty unusual.

• Toby Kwimper : Dog me, Holly's just a kid, too, but they don't come no better. And smart, too.

• Toby Kwimper : He's a good man. He's always been good to me and he's always been good to them. He always will be, too. Now, that's all that matters here today, and if you don't know that, Judge, you ain't no Judge.

• Toby Kwimper : My pop's an ornery man, Judge, that's 'cause he's so smart. He can't stand it when people act stupid. I ain't so bright myself and it's a wonder to me that we get along as well as we do.

• Holly Jones : I want you to show me - exactly what happened. Step by step. Now, you were lying down like this. And then what?

  Toby Kwimper : Then she kind of leaned down real close to me.

  Holly Jones : Like this?

  Toby Kwimper : Mmm-hmm. She run her fingers over my forehead.

  Holly Jones : Like this?

  Toby Kwimper : Well, not so much like you was ironing a shirt. It was a little softer. That's it.

• Toby Kwimper : [singing]  Angel, with those angel eyes, Come and take this earth boy, Up to paradise, Angel, may I hold you tight? Never kissed an angel, Let me kiss one tonight...

• Toby Kwimper : I would lock you up, but the three of you'd be kind of cramped in our john.