I'm No Angel (1933)

Mae West: Tira

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Quotes 

• Jack Clayton : You were wonderful tonight.

  Tira : Yeah, I'm always wonderful at night.

  Jack Clayton : Tonight, you were especially good.

  Tira : Well... When I'm good, I'm very good. But, when I'm bad...

  [winks at Jack] 

  Tira : I'm better.

• Rajah the Fortune Teller : I see a man in your life.

  Tira : What? Only one?

• Tira : It's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.

• Tira : By the way, honey, you married or single?

  Ernest Brown : Married five times.

  Tira : Five times? Wedding bells must sound like an alarm clock to you.

• Big Bill Barton : Tira, I've changed my mind.

  Tira : Does it work any better?

• Ernest Brown : I like to get around and travel; and, believe me, I've been places and seen things.

  Tira : Mmm-hmm. I've been things and seen places. That sort of evens us out.

• Tira : Always remember, honey. A good motto is: "Take all you can get and give as little as possible". Don't forget, honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em!

• Rajah the Fortune Teller : I see a change of position.

  Tira : Sitting or reclining?

• Jack Clayton : Do you mind if I get personal?

  Tira : Hmmm, go ahead. I don't mind if you get familiar.

• Tira : Oh, Beulah!

  Beulah : Yes, ma'am.

  Tira : Peel me a grape.

• Tira : When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better.

• Tira : Am I making myself clear, boys?

  [in low voice] 

  Tira : Suckers.

• Alicia Hatton : I suppose you know why I'm here?

  Tira : Hardly! You see, I'm a lion tamer not a mind reader.

• Alicia Hatton : Then it might refresh you to know that I'm Kurt's fiancé.

  Tira : There's nothing refreshing about that.

  Alicia Hatton : You want me to swear?

  Tira : Never mind. I can do that myself.

• Beulah : Certainly do keep me busy keepin' track of your gentlemen friends.

  Tira : I'm gonna make it easy for you, Beulah. I'm thinking about putting in a filing system.

• Tira : Beulah, peel me a grape.

• Tira : [to Slick Wiley]  What'd you do? Get your hair cut or have your ears moved down?

• Jack Clayton : Oh I'm crazy about you.

  Tira : I did my best to make you that way.

  Jack Clayton : Look darling, you need a rest, and so do I. Let me take you away somewhere, we'll...

  Tira : Would you call that a rest?

  Jack Clayton : What are you thinking about?

  Tira : Same thing you are.

• [after he reads her fortune, Rajah gives Tira the horoscope he has prepared for her] 

  Rajah the Fortune Teller : Keep this where you may consult it frequently.

  Tira : Alright, I'll take it to bed with me.

• Slick Wiley : I'll see you later.

  Tira : the later the better.

• Tira : Somewhere there's a guy with a million waitin' for a dame like me.

• Kirk Lawrence : I'll never forget you.

  Tira : No one ever does.

• Tira : What do you do for a living?

  Ernest Brown : Oh, uh, sort of a politician.

  Tira : I don't like work either.

• Rajah the Fortune Teller : You were born in August.

  Tira : Yeah, one of the hot months.

• Tira : Come on, can't you hurry up and get that thing fixed? I gotta get back. I'm expecting Mr. Clayton at the apartment.

  Bartons Chauffeur : I'm doing the best I can, ma'am.

  Tira : Yeah, your best is no good. Try doing your worst.

  Bartons Chauffeur : Yes, ma'am.

• Tira : [Answers phone]  Hello? Oh, Juror #4. Yes, I remember you. You were the one with the nice kind face. Mmm hmm. Oh, I know you were for me. Mmm hmm. I want to thank you for those beautiful flowers. They were lovely. And don't forget - come up and see me sometime.

  [Jack Clayton walks in] 

  Tira : Mmm hmm. Oh, ah, yes. Yes. Alright, good-bye.

• Beulah : Miss... we was thinking you're a one-man woman.

  Tira : I'm one man at a time.

• Tira : [Pointing to a picture and telling her maid about her jewelry]  He gimme 'em.

• Tira : When I was born with this face, it was the same as strikin' oil.