The Crystal Ball (1943)

Paulette Goddard: Toni Gerard

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Quotes 

• Mrs. Smythe : I'm a phobophobe.

  Toni Gerard : You're a what?

  Mrs. Smythe : A phobophobe. That means I'm afraid of being afraid.

  Toni Gerard : I see.

  Mrs. Smythe : Well, I don't understand it either, but according to psychoanalysts, it's all because I was a child.

• Toni Gerard : How men can be so simple. Good night. Trueboy knows more about women than you do.

  Brad Cavanaugh : And who is Trueboy?

  Toni Gerard : One of Grandpa's hogs.

  Brad Cavanaugh : Hogs?

  Toni Gerard : Well, hogs are very nice people, thank you. You wouldn't catch one of them going around telling somebody they loved them when they're going to "eventually" somebody else.

  Brad Cavanaugh : [angered]  And who did I go around telling them I loved them?

  Toni Gerard : I suppose you weren't whooping for your dead Indian right out on that dance floor.

  Brad Cavanaugh : When and where I whoop for my dead Indian is my affair, I believe. And what that's gotta do with telling anyone I love them, I don't know.

  Toni Gerard : Well... you... coyote! Let me tell you something. If that's the way it comes out of the top drawer, you can just slam it.

• Toni Gerard : It's, uh... it's almost like fate, isn't it?

  Madame Zenobia : Hmm. Fate's fine as long as you take it by its own two horns and make it come your way.

• Brad Cavanaugh : Toni, I met your old aunt.

  Toni Gerard : You... you met my old aunt?

  Brad Cavanaugh : Mmm-hmm. And next time, tell her she needs a shave.

• Toni Gerard : Where we going?

  Brad Cavanaugh : I'm going to take you out and BEAT you to death. Hey, come here!

• Toni Gerard : Oh, you're awfully kind, Madame Zenobia.

  Madame Zenobia : Don't kid yourself. You've got quite a future. Maybe I wanna tie-in with it.

  Toni Gerard : Well, did you see that in the crystal ball?

  Madame Zenobia : No, baby. I saw that when you crossed your legs.

• Brad Cavanaugh : I suppose you find New York quite a bit different.

  Toni Gerard : Not very. In Texas it's the coyotes that howl, here it's wolves.

  Brad Cavanaugh : Well, you can't really blame them, you know. Waving red hair in front of a wolf is dangerous business.

• Madame Zenobia : [seeing Toni change clothes]  Say, those judges were nuts.

  Toni Gerard : Thanks. You wouldn't think so if you'd seen that blonde. She bombed from a very low altitude.