Desk Set (1957)

Joan Blondell: Peg Costello

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Quotes 

• Bunny Watson : Have some tequila, Peg.

  Peg Costello : I don't think I should. There are 85 calories in a glass of champagne.

  Bunny Watson : I have a little place in my neighborhood where I can get it for 65.

• Bunny Watson : [as she is about to go meet Mike]  How do I look?

  Peg Costello : Too good for him.

• Peg Costello : I could tell from the way he was lookin' at me that if I were any other kind of girl, it would've been the start of a beautiful romance.

  Bunny Watson : More power to you! You're lonely, but more power to you!

• Ruthie Saylor : What do you suppose he's doing all that measuring for? Do you think we're being redecorated?

  Sylvia Blair : Does he look like an interior decorator to you?

  Peg Costello : No! He looks like one of those men who's just suddenly switched to vodka!

• Bunny Watson : Oh, I remember what: my other bottle of champagne.

  Peg Costello : If you take that champagne back to Legal, you won't even get another swallow.

  Bunny Watson : That's right. Maybe I'd better drink it right here. Join me, Peg?

  Peg Costello : Certainly. How does champagne go with Four Roses, Scotch, Martinis, and Bloody Marys?

  Bunny Watson : Oh, fine. They're all the same base: alcohol.

• Peg Costello : I love Legal - it's all men!

• Ruthie Saylor : Are you sure you want this mistletoe right over the door?

  Sylvia Blair : Certainly! Then if anything good drifts in we can grab him!

  Peg Costello : Why don't you wear it in your hair?

  Sylvia Blair : Along about 3 o'clock I may.

• Sylvia Blair : What do you suppose it'll be like here next Christmas when we're gone? Do you think EMERAC will throw a party?

  Ruthie Saylor : Oh, don't talk that way. It's bad luck to talk like that. It's Christmas!

  Bunny Watson : It's Christmas.

  Peg Costello : Well, if we do get canned, we won't be the only ones to lose our jobs because of a machine.

• Peg Costello : The traditional Thanksgiving song? One of them is "Over the River and Through the Woods"!

• Peg Costello : You only smoke when there's a crisis. Who is he?

• Peg Costello : [on the phone]  Is this the Society for the Preservation of Eskimo Culture? This is Miss Costello of the Federal Broadcasting Company, and I'm trying to find out the truth about the Eskimo habit of rubbing noses. Yes, connect me. I'll hold on.

• Peg Costello : He always waits till the last minute. He knows you're always there.

  Bunny Watson : You mean I'm too available?

  Peg Costello : Available? You're like an old coat that's hanging in his closet. Every time he reaches in, there you are. Don't be there once.

  Bunny Watson : He'd just buy himself a new coat.

  Peg Costello : He's been wearing this one for seven years.

• Peg Costello : You go along thinking tomorrow something wonderful's gonna happen. You're not gonna be alone anymore. And then one day you realize it's all over. You're out of circulation. It all happened, and you didn't even know when it happened.

  Bunny Watson : Well, when that day comes, we'll move in together and keep cats.

  Peg Costello : I don't like cats. I like men, and so do you.

• Peg Costello : Did you hear anything I said?

  Bunny Watson : Yes, darling, I heard every word. But I'm the faithful-as-a-bird-dog type who can't be devious.

  Peg Costello : All right, Lassie. But when he disappears, remember, you heard it on this channel first.

• Peg Costello : He's trying to replace us all with a mechanical brain! He's under special assignment to Azae to see if EAMRAC can be adapted to this department. That means the end of us all!

• Peg Costello : this may be the last Christmas party we're going to throw here, so let's make it a Lulu!

  [brings out a bottle of alcohol] 

  Sylvia Blair : Before lunch?

  Peg Costello : Before lunch, for lunch, after lunch.

• Peg Costello : What's it gonna be? Midget golf? Snack bar?