Two Seconds (1932)
Preston Foster: Bud Clark
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Quotes
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Bud Clark : There's only one thing we got think about: when we get our arms around a dame, how far can we go?
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John Allen : Listen, Bud, I don't think I'm gonna horn in on your party tonight.
Bud Clark : Gettin' stuck up, all of the sudden, are you? Me and Annie ain't good enough for you any more?
John Allen : It ain't that and you know it. It's only that, well, I don't know who the dame is Annie's going to bring along for me. I ain't so keen about a blind date.
Bud Clark : Aw, she'll be all right. Annie knows you're particular about dames! She'll get ya a good number.
John Allen : Yeah? Well, how about that truck horse she picked out for me last time?
Bud Clark : I give her the devil for it, didn't I?
John Allen : Yeah, a lot of good it did me. I was stuck with her for a whole evenin'. Boy, all that dame wanted to do was eat - eat and dance. I felt like I was handlin' the rear end of a fire truck.
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Bud Clark : What are you hanging around her so much for then?
John Allen : Well, she's good company. She knows things. She goes to school.
Bud Clark : She goes to school.
John Allen : Yeah.
Bud Clark : I'll say she's a wise hen! She's found out your nuts about that education stuff and she's tryin' to hook you with that bait!
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Bud Clark : Remember this: when it comes to playin' around with a dame or poundin' on a stick of dynamite, the real smart guy chooses the dynamite.
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Bud Clark : She was born crooked! It ain't in her nature to play square.
John Allen : Now, don't say that. She's on the level, in that way, with men, I mean. I know she is.
Bud Clark : Yeah? Where'd she get all them glad rags she was dolled up in when she come to ya? From dancin'? She only made five cents a dance. There's a limit to how much you can make addin' up pennies in a night. Why, she wouldn't have made enough to buy them clothes even if she was a - a - merry-go-round!
John Allen : She's worked hard!
Bud Clark : Sure, she has. And I'll tell you where she did it too. The same place she still goes every afternoon.
John Allen : She goes to the movies!
Bud Clark : Yeah?
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John Allen : [Referring to Bud's racetrack winnings] Say, you ain't gonna blow him the whole 38?
Bud Clark : Well, I sure am! You don't spend easy money fast, no more will ever come to you.
John Allen : Oh, yeah, but, it seems crazy to spend all that jack on a couple-a dumb dames!
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Bud Clark : You're in a bad way. Better take some aspirin. First thing I know you'll be goin' sourer on me, you'll be clippin' some of those coupons and gettin' yourself a study book to carry around!
John Allen : Well, that mightin' be a bad idea, at that!
Bud Clark : Oh, no. Not while you're bunkin' with me. I ain't gonna live with no lily!
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John Allen : The girl I'm gonna fall for is gonna have real class.
Bud Clark : Yeah? I ain't seen no poodle dogs chasin' ya.
John Allen : Yeah, well she's gonna have an education. A girl you can learn somethin' from. Ain't no use in both of us bein' dumb.
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Bud Clark : No wonder the girls don't like ya.
John Allen : Oh, they like me well enough. Say, didn't that fire wagon slobber all over me?
Bud Clark : That's because you was feedin' her good. If Annie's got you a thin one this time, I bet she won't even give you a tumble.
John Allen : Yeah, well that'll be her tough luck.
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Bud Clark : Gee, she had a nifty leg. I shouldn't have let her get away.
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Bud Clark : You got anything special on for tonight?
Tart : Yeah. We were just wanting to go by to see the Astor.
Bud Clark : Come off. Come off. You've got the Astor mixed up with the owl dining car, ain't ya?
Tart : Yeah, well, it ain't so bad at that.
Bud Clark : You said it. How 'bout lettin' me sit across from ya, and squirt grapefruit juice in your eye? Like they do in the movies.
Tart : I ain't particular.
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Bud Clark : She's got you dizzy, that's what! I thought you had more sense than fall for the first dame that sighs at you and tells you how wonderful you are. Here, me and Annie's been chasin' around, trying to get you interested in some nice little home girl. But, no! This one's too fat! This one worked in a laundry. While we go chasin' around trying to find a Peggy Joyce for you, what do you do? You go out and get yourself hog tied by a dance hall Jane.
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John Allen : I get a big kick out of Shirley.
Bud Clark : Aw, you could do better with a mule!
John Allen : You think I'm stuck on her; but, I ain't. I got my eyes open. I know what I'm doing.
Bud Clark : But, do you know what she's doing? That's what counts!
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Bud Clark : I ain't gonna let you pull the old Army game on him!
Shirley Day : Oh, who's pullin' the Army game?
Bud Clark : You are and you know it! You got him drunk so's he'd get all hot over you. Now, you're framing him to marry ya!
Shirley Day : I don't have to frame anything, Mr. Wise Guy. We're married already.
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Bud Clark : A riveter's wife don't need silk lingerie and silk pajamas! Not a nightgown, mind you, silk pajamas!
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John Allen : Workin' this way, 20, 25 stories up in the air, you know, it kinda gives a fella ideas. You know, you met a guy or a girl down there and they think they're hot stuff, they amount to somthin' in the world.
Bud Clark : Well, they ain't nothin' wrong with bein' that, is it?
John Allen : No, nothin' wrong, nothin' wrong, nothin' like that; but, I don't know, when ya, when ya get up here and look down on 'em, then you get a different slant on the whole thing. You know, they only seem like, like just a crawlin' bunch of little flies. Look at them. Look at 'em. Crawlin' down there. A banker and a lawyer and the fancy dame. All the rest of 'em, thinkin' they're doin' big things. Makin' speeches and gettin' into the papers and cheatin' and hatin' each other. Huh, I bet you God gets a big laugh out of this old world.
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Bud Clark : What do you wanna go botherin' your head about that education bunk for? Ain't you makin' 62.50 a week?
John Allen : Yeah.
Bud Clark : Well, what more do you want? A guy told me that 62.50 is more than what a college professor makes. Do you wanna be a college professor and not have any dough to blow in on a good time?
John Allen : Aw, no, it ain't the money, Bud, it ain't that. It's only, gee, I don't know this - there's so much more in the world I don't know.
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Bud Clark : You and me, we ain't got no time to think. We got work to do!
John Allen : Oh, you said it.
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Bud Clark : John. John!
John Allen : [drunkenly] What's the matter now?
Bud Clark : Did you let this dirty little egg rope you in?
Shirley Day : Hey! That's no way to talk about his wife.
Bud Clark : You filthy little rat you!
John Allen : What's the matter now?
