How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

Michele Lee: Rosemary Pilkington

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Quotes 

• Rosemary : Get back in the shower. Get back in there!

  Hedy LaRue : I have nothing to hide.

  Rosemary : Oh, yes, you have! And you keep it hidden.

• Rosemary : Lunch.

  J. Pierpont Finch : Huh?

  Rosemary : I said, "Lunch."

  J. Pierpont Finch : What about "lunch"?

  Rosemary : I'd love to!

• Mr. Gatch : Rosemary, seeing you always brightens my day. (He tries to kiss her)

  Rosemary : Mr. Gatch!

  Mr. Gatch : I'm gonna have to stop reading "Playboy."

• Bud Frump : Are you ambitious, Finch?

  J. Pierpont Finch : No, not necessarily.

  Bud Frump : Good. You just keep that in mind. If you just remember who I am and who you are, we'll get along fine. If not...

  Rosemary : You go crying to your uncle!

  Bud Frump : I beg your pardon, I do not go crying to my uncle! It just happens my mother is Mrs. Biggley's sister. If I feel something's wrong, I phone my mother. She phones Mrs. Biggley, and Mrs. Biggley phones Mr. Biggley. That's the DEMOCRATIC way.

• Rosemary : You take the average young person today. I mean, the trouble is they're looking for instant poetry, instant psychoanalysis, instant mashed potatoes - and instant old-fashioned love. I mean, they don't realize that it takes - takes time to establish a meaningful relationship.

• Rosemary : Well, happy dictation, Ponty.

• [There is music when Finch thinks of Rosemary] 

  J. Pierpont Finch : Can't you hear it? It's all around me, it's like a beautiful pink sky.

  Rosemary : J. Pierpont Finch, what are you...

  J. Pierpont Finch : Rosemary, darling, will you please marry J. Pierpont Finch?

  Rosemary : NOW I hear it.

• [Song lyrics] 

  Smitty : Now she's thinking:

  Rosemary : I wish that he were more of a flirt.

  Smitty : And he's thinking:

  J. Pierpont Finch : I guess a little flirting won't hurt.

  Smitty : Now she's thinking:

  Rosemary : For dinner we could meet.

  Smitty : And he's thinking:

  J. Pierpont Finch : We both've gotta eat.

  Smitty : And she says:

  Rosemary : [Sneezes] 

  Smitty : And he says:

  J. Pierpont Finch : Gesundheit... well, it's been a long day.

• Rosemary : I know how hard it is...

• Smitty : Wherefore is this creep any different from all other creeps?

  Rosemary : He's not a creep!

• Rosemary : Poor baby. He looks so utterly vulnerable. They'll eat him alive in this jungle.

• Rosemary : He has a sort of undaunted sort of noble courage. Yet, deep down, you sense he's a helpless little muffin.

• Rosemary : Good luck, Mr. Finch.

  J. Pierpont Finch : Thank you, Miss...

  Rosemary : Pilkington, Rosemary Pilkington.

  J. Pierpont Finch : Pilkington, Rosemary Pilkington.

• Rosemary : [singing]  To see, The cool, clear eyes, Of a seeker of wisdom and truth, et with the slam-bang tang, Reminiscent of gin and vermouth, Oh, I believe in you...

• J. Pierpont Finch : I've been working so hard and trying to do my best at the company, I don't even have my own office yet.

  Rosemary : Ponty, you've only been working there two days.

  J. Pierpont Finch : Yes, but I feel I'm never gonna get any place.

  Rosemary : Ponty, some men spend years trying to accomplish what you've just done in two days.

  J. Pierpont Finch : Yes, but I'm 27 years old, and I'm only a junior executive. I'm not getting any younger.

• Rosemary : Don't let me keep you. Go on. Go back to making love to her. Kiss her! Take her home for the weekend. I don't care.

  J. Pierpont Finch : All right, now what'll I do?

  Hedy LaRue : Let's do what she said.

• Rosemary : You snake, kiss me.