Quotes from Fred Astaire movies and TV shows - page 3 of 3

Jim Hardy: Lila's back in New York. I got a letter from her yesterday.
Ted Hanover: What happened to her millionaire?
Jim Hardy: Slight mistake there. He didn't own millions, he owed them.
Ted Hanover: Poor girl. Always straying to greener pastures and finding spinach.

Danny O'Neill: It seems to me I smell a mouse.
Ellen Miller: Somewhere around the house.

Horace Hardwick: What kind of plane?
Jerry Travers: One with wings.

Dale Tremont: I dropped up from the room below where I've been trying to get some sleep.
Jerry Travers: Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't realise I was disturbing you. You see, every once in a while I suddenly find myself... dancing.
Dale Tremont: Oh, I suppose it's some kind of an affliction.

Jerry Travers: In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.

Horace Hardwick: You know how wives are.
Jerry Travers: No I don't. How are they?

Jerry Travers: Are you afraid of thunder?
Dale Tremont: Oh, no. It's just the noise.
Jerry Travers: You know what thunder is, don't you?
Dale Tremont: Of course. It's something about the air.
Jerry Travers: No, no. When a clumsy cloud from here meets a fluffy little cloud from there, he billows towards her. She scurries away and he scuds right up to her. She cries a little and there you have you showers. He comforts her. They spark. That's the lightning. They kiss. Thunder.

Jerry Travers: I think I feel an attack coming on. There's only one thing that can stop me.
Dale Tremont: Why, you must tell me what it is.
Jerry Travers: My nurses always put their arms around me.

Horace Hardwick: You mean to sit there and tell me that that girl slapped your face in front of all those people for nothing?
Jerry Travers: Well, what would you have done? Sold tickets?