I Love Trouble (1948)

Franchot Tone: Stuart Bailey

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Quotes 

• Stuart Bailey : You ever have the feeling you've been watched or followed?

  Hazel Bixby : Not nearly enough.

• Butler : Good morning.

  Stuart Bailey : Good morning.

  Butler : [noticing he was beat up]  Say, what happened to you? Are you the drunk they told me was sleeping it off upstairs?

  Stuart Bailey : Yeah, that's me.

  Butler : I must have been hearing things. I thought they said it was a gal.

  Stuart Bailey : When I drink, my voice gets high.

• Buster Buffin : Well, what'll it be? Clam chowder or clam chowder?

  Stuart Bailey : Got any clam chowder?

  Buster Buffin : Oh, that's special. Cost you extra.

• [first lines] 

  Jane Johnson : [after trying to elude him, deciding to approach the man on the street she has noticed has been clandestinely watching her]  I'd like to know the reason why you're following me.

  Stuart Bailey : Would I need a reason?

  Jane Johnson : You know, I'm beginning to think I might *possibly* have been mistaken about you. Perhaps it's your leer. It looks so genuine.

  Stuart Bailey : [with a mock lascivious tone in leering back at her]  It is.

  Jane Johnson : [sternly]  Yes, I can see it is. Well, you'll have to excuse me. I'm going in here and try and lose you.

  [she walks away into a building as Bailey walks in the opposite direction to his car] 

• Stuart Bailey : [Norma entering Bailey's office after the invitation]  Well, come in. Is this love or were you looking for a detective?

  Norma Shannon : Isn't there any other alternative?

  Stuart Bailey : Yes, but I haven't got time for it.

• Stuart Bailey : You're just the man I wanted to see, Mr. Johnson. You got to get your wife up here.

  Ralph Johnson : My wife? Why?

  Stuart Bailey : Because I'm dancing on a hot griddle and she's going to get me off.

• Norma Shannon : Well, I wouldn't have missed meeting you for all the world. The first time I've gone slumming in years.

  Stuart Bailey : You win. You see in this racket, you learn to suspect the worst of everyone. The few times you are wrong, you have to apologize. I'm apologizing.

  Norma Shannon : Well, thank you. I appreciate it.

  Stuart Bailey : You should. Humble pie gives me hives.

• Martin : [pointing at Bailey]  This is a gun in my hand.

  Stuart Bailey : Yeah, I've seen one before.

• Martin : You ask for trouble, you'll get it. I hired out for that job.

  Stuart Bailey : Who hired you?

  Martin : You know what would happen to me if I told you?

  Stuart Bailey : The guy's tough, huh?

  Martin : You can say that again.

  Stuart Bailey : Who's ever behind you is about as dangerous as a badminton's bird. Giving me that 200 bucks... that's right out of Aunt Sadie's hope chest.

• Stuart Bailey : [jumping into Sharpy's car]  Let's talk.

  Sharpy : Who are you?

  Stuart Bailey : I'm a guy who wants to talk. I'm lonely.

  Sharpy : I gotta get outta here.

  Stuart Bailey : I wouldn't do that. Your friend upstairs might see you. Let's go up and join him. Maybe he's lonely too.

• Buster Buffin : So you're trying to find Janie.

  Stuart Bailey : Yeah.

  Buster Buffin : That was all of six years ago, chum. What's your angle on her?

  Stuart Bailey : Oh, just leg work and the expense account is lean and hungry.

  Buster Buffin : What's the information worth?

  Stuart Bailey : What's the information?

  Stuart Bailey : [Buster doesn't respond; Bailey pulls out some money]  What'll that buy?

• Stuart Bailey : Can't you smell a frame-up when it's hanging under your nose?

  Lt. Quint : Not when you're the man who's hanging it there.

• Boots Nestor : [covering up her bathing suit]  Please excuse my appearance. I... I was sunbathing.

  Stuart Bailey : [smiling]  Don't let me interrupt.

• Betty : Hello, Mr. B.

  Stuart Bailey : You're a sight for sore eyes.

  Betty : [noticing Bailey has been beaten up]  You're a sight, period!

• Stuart Bailey : [noticing the name tag, Millie, on her waitress uniform]  Just coffee, Millie.

  Fannie Phipps : My name ain't Millie. Millie got fired. My name's Fannie.

  Stuart Bailey : Fannie, would you remember...

  Fannie Phipps : I hate people that call me that.

  Stuart Bailey : But you just said your name was...

  Fannie Phipps : My friends call me Jackie.

  Stuart Bailey : Well, Jackie, would you remember...

  Fannie Phipps : I said my friends call me Jackie. To you, I'm Miss Phipps.

  Stuart Bailey : Your name is Phipps.

  Fannie Phipps : Certainly. You know you oughta learn to get along with people. I see somebody shot 'cha.

  Stuart Bailey : Miss Phipps, you are what I call an observant woman.

• Stuart Bailey : You know, I'm the kind of a guy who can admit he's been a dope.

  Norma Shannon : And I'm the kind of a gal that can go for a dope like you.

• Lt. Quint : [barging through Bailey's door]  Someone downtown was having a joke, said you have some information for me.

  Stuart Bailey : Let's try this entrance again. You knock and I'll open the door.

• Norma Shannon : Let me go!

  Stuart Bailey : [grabbing her shoulders]  Listen, I've been burned before. I've been given a high-class hotfoot with a gold-plated lighter. Either you're phony or most of my facts are. I'm still trying to find out which.

• Stuart Bailey : You figured she was frightened because when she read it she laughed gaily?

• Hazel Bixby : Brace yourself.

  Stuart Bailey : Johnson?

  Hazel Bixby : Does Johnson have a purple face?

• Stuart Bailey : People don't spot me when I'm following 'em. Unless, they're looking for it. Your wife was looking for it.

• Ralph Johnson : Some of my friends would be capable of getting plastered and pulling a stunt just like that.

  Stuart Bailey : That's a pretty rugged crowd you run with.

  Ralph Johnson : Rugged is a good enough name for some of my friends. I came up the hard way. In fact, that's the trouble. I've lead a rough and tumbled life.

• Keller : I thought you might be looking for something - the hard way.

  Stuart Bailey : If I wanted anything from you, I'd get it. And I like the hard way.

• Stuart Bailey : You're an angel, angel.

• Stuart Bailey : [serving a bowl of clam chowder]  You wouldn't be a food inspector, would you?

  Buster Buffin : Put it down. I might be hungry.

  Stuart Bailey : You'll find it warmer than an old maid's feet, but, not half as clammy

• Norma Shannon : Acute cynicism. I suppose it's an occupational disease, isn't it.

  Stuart Bailey : Yeah, it's the people I meet.

• Buster Buffin : Club Zoro, Long Beach Boulevard. She was calling herself: Janie Joy.

  Stuart Bailey : Club Zoro. Janie Joy. Thank you.

• Stuart Bailey : Why haven't I been thrown out?

  Ligia Caprillo : I do not know. It is apparent my husband wishes to talk with you. Latin American women respect their husband's wishes.

  Stuart Bailey : I've known - one or two that didn't.

  Ligia Caprillo : Really? That is an interesting observation, Mr. Bailey. Perhaps we should explore it further - some other time.

• Norma Shannon : You know, it just hit me, why you took me to your apartment last night. Just to see the photograph. That was all.

  Stuart Bailey : Something like that.

  Norma Shannon : And I thought you wanted to see what kind of a girl I was.

  Stuart Bailey : I know what kind of a girl you are.

  Norma Shannon : No you don't.

• Stuart Bailey : As I said once before: you're good.

  Norma Shannon : I suppose you meant that to be nasty. I found it rather nice.

• Lt. Quint : What did you have against Buffin?

  Stuart Bailey : His clam chowder. It was too cold.

• Stuart Bailey : I know when I'm licked.

• Reno : We'll settle for the name of your client. Don't be a hero Bailey. You're gonna tell us now or later. Why don't you tell us now and save yourself some teeth.

  Stuart Bailey : I'll talk to my client tomorrow. Maybe he'll see it your way.

  Reno : Quit stallin', sweetheart. Let's have it!

• Stuart Bailey : Just drop your ashes on the floor. There's a girl comes in once a month.

• Stuart Bailey : Be patient, angel. We can start needling each other again in a second.

• Stuart Bailey : Shall we go into whatever it is you're afraid of, beautiful. Or, shall we have ourself some gay repartee, first?

• Hazel Bixby : [knocking on Bailey's door]  If you want me to go away, say so. My hands have tender knuckles.

  Stuart Bailey : [opens door]  Is it important?

  Hazel Bixby : [sees Norma in Bailey's apartment]  All things are relative. I can't answer that!

• Stuart Bailey : I'm going in behind you, jughead. Do whatever you think is smart.

• Ligia Caprillo : Martin is my chauffeur. Nothing else.

  Stuart Bailey : He's not a chauffeur, pet.

• Stuart Bailey : When you get to know me, I'm a very odious character.

  Reno : Me too, Bailey. A girl once told me I was the most odious guy she'd ever met. Can you imagine that?