Elliott Reid credited as playing...
Ernie Malone
- Ernie Malone: It seemed a good idea to bring some drinks. Here are your cigarettes.
- Dorothy Shaw: Oh, you're a dear. Good boy.
- Lorelei Lee: I've been wondering, what is your line, Mr. Malone?
- Ernie Malone: My line? Well, my most effective one is to tell a girl that she has hair like a tortured midnight, lips like a red couch in an ivory palace, that I'm lonely and starved for affection. Then, I generally burst into tears. It very seldom works.
- Dorothy Shaw: You idiot.
- Dorothy Shaw: I certainly want to know who the players are. For instance, who's the young man who just tried to steal second base?
- Ernie Malone: Name is Malone.
- Dorothy Shaw: I'm Shaw, Dorothy. Well, Mr. Malone?
- Ernie Malone: You're the most attractive girl in the room so I came over to tell you. Do you mind?
- Dorothy Shaw: No, I might as well warn you, flattery will get you anywhere.
- Ernie Malone: In that case we haven't got any problems.
- Dorothy Shaw: Bottom's up!
- [Dorothy, Lorelei and Ernie drink their cocktails]
- Dorothy Shaw: He looks like he's going to explode.
- Ernie Malone: What was that?
- Lorelei Lee: Just equal parts of Scotch, Vodka, Brandy, and Gin.
- Ernie Malone: I'm not that bad all the time. Sometimes I'm very nice. Sometimes I just speak without thinking.
- Dorothy Shaw: I get the picture. You're half sweet and half acid.
- Lorelei Lee: I did not steal Lady Beekman's tiara.
- Lady Beekman: Then perhaps you'll explain how it happens to be in your possession?
- Lorelei Lee: Suppose we say that's my affair.
- Ernie Malone: Well, that's one explanation.
- Ernie Malone: [complaining to the steward as he's lead from the girls' room after their "dinner party"] It's just not fair. Two against one. Take a man's pants.
- Lorelei Lee: What do you do for a living?
- Ernie Malone: Oh, that kind of a line. Nothing, I'm afraid. Just clip coupons and live off the fat of the land.
- Lorelei Lee: Coupons. That's like money, isn't it?
- Ernie Malone: Very similar.
- Lorelei Lee: I'm so pleased Dorothy's taken an interest in you. I mean, she's never been interested in anyone worthwhile.
- Ernie Malone: No taste, eh?
- Dorothy Shaw: No, I'm a hobo collector. I might even find room for you.
- Ernie Malone: Miss Lee, before I go, I'm gonna tell you this. Because once in awhile even a mercenary nitwit like you has a decent impulse. Don't let your friend here get mixed up in any of your schemes. Because I'm gonna rub your nose in them and I don't want this character to get hurt on the way.
- Lorelei Lee: If you've nothing more to say, pray, scat.
- Ernie Malone: For the past hour, I've been thinking. Thinking about doing something.
- Dorothy Shaw: Well, what have you been thinking, Mr. Malone?
- [kiss]
- Dorothy Shaw: I'd sure hate to have your job.
- Ernie Malone: Well, maybe you're right. Checking up on people is messy work sometimes. But only when those people are doing things that...
- Dorothy Shaw: Doing things like pretending to make love to a girl while you spy on her friend?