Big Business Girl (1931)

Loretta Young: Claire 'Mac' McIntyre

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• Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : Honestly, Johnny, you're only good for two things: making music and making love.

• Robert Clayton : How do you feel?

  Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : Good and low. Low enough to put on a plug hat and walk right under a duck.

• Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : Don't you like working?

  Sally Curtin : Well, it's alright, but... well, it takes more than a successful business career to keep a girl warm on winter nights.

• Robert Clayton : [after dinner party for a client]  What an orgy! I'm certainly glad they're gone.

  Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : I'll get a taxi - and exit laughing before you begin thinking that way about me.

• Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : I owe a couple of thousand. I've gone to college like a lady. I've had the best clothes, the best rooms, the best everything. And all on borrowed money; instead of working my way through like I should have. Well, jolly times are over. Now, I go to work and pay the piper.

• Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : I'm going to do it or bust a lung in the attempt.

• Johnny Saunders : I've decided not to go to Paris unless you come with me. I wouldn't stay away from you all Summer for the best job ever invented.

  Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : The back of your neck feels just like a teddy bear I used to take to bed with me.

• Robert Clayton : Is it that you're not in the mood or what?

  Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : Let's say: or what.

• Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : My answer is still no.

  Robert Clayton : I thought you were a woman of the world.

  Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : No!

• Johnny Saunders : Hey, where's the fire?

  Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : Here, powder my back, will you?

  Johnny Saunders : I'm not so particular about going out to eat. Did anyone ever tell you that the back of your neck was delicious and refreshing?

• Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : Darn these tight dresses!

• Walter T. Morley : You're a clever child. And a very pretty one too if anyone should happen to ask.

  Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : Am I?

  Walter T. Morley : Very.

• Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : Will you stop raving and listen to reason for a minute.

• Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : Everything is peaches down in Georgia.

• Claire 'Mac' McIntyre : I do feel sort of punked and generally fed up with things.