Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
Edward Everett Horton: Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
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Quotes
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Miss Sutton, Neff's Secretary : Are you ill, Mr. Nolan?
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : What?
Miss Sutton, Neff's Secretary : Are you ill?
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : No...No...A thought just struck me.
Miss Sutton, Neff's Secretary : That's too bad.
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Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I haven't seen little Marion now for many years. Oh, she was pretty as a spotted pup that last Spring in Knoxville.
Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : You must have been in on the beginning of her career.
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Yes. She had just started her painting.
Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : I wasn't thinking of painting.
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Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : A gentleman, sir, doesn't bend your lady's name about - lest of all in her own parlor!
Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : That's were I have the edge on you. I'm no gentleman.
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : You talk like a Communist.
Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : You talk like a Senator!
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Slade Kinnicott : Oh, never mind, dear. She seems to be getting on all right.
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : How do you know?
[Slades shows the newspaper article]
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Oh, well, yes. Outwardly gay, perhaps. But, who knows?
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Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Marion, why you're evil. Oh, you haven't the face of evil. But, you're evil. Evil!
Marion Forsythe : Bunny, darling, you can't possibly mean that. I might just as well say that you're evil because you're intolerant. These things are just differences in temperament, that's all.
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : That is sophistry.
Marion Forsythe : Oh, come on. Have cup of tea with me, huh?
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Well, I - I...
Marion Forsythe : Would your constituents object to your having a cup of tea with a notorious woman?
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Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : All these years I've been wanting to see you to get it off my mind.
Marion Forsythe : Did you want to have the last word, Bunny?
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I wanted to see you, to stand before you, to tell myself, "Here she is and what of it."
Marion Forsythe : I know exactly how you feel. Like having a tooth out.
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Marion Forsythe : You shouldn't let anything fret you that happened so long ago.
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Oh, I know, I know. You're just saying that to solve my conscience. But, I won't have it. I know my guilt and I'm going to bear it.
Marion Forsythe : Of course, I don't want to deprive you of any of your little pleasures.
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Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I've never been done in oils.
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Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I'm not a Bohemian.
Marion Forsythe : You're not going to tell me you're a gypsy, Bunny?
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Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Really, I wish you wouldn't call me Bunny.
Marion Forsythe : Well, I always did! What is your real name?
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Why you know, perfectly well.
Marion Forsythe : I swear I don't.
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : My name is Leander.
Marion Forsythe : Now, Bunny, really?
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : That's my name.
Marion Forsythe : Really? Oh! I'd forgotten. Leander. Who was he? He did something in the Hellespont, didn't he? What did he do in the Hellespont?
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Well, Marion, that's beside the point.
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Marion Forsythe : Are you vertical or horizontal, Bunny?
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I'm both.
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Marion Forsythe : Stop fidgeting, Bunny. Now, how can I...
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : It's like being watched while you're taking a bath.
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Mr. Orrin Kinnicott : I'm not narrow and what people don't know doesn't hurt 'em.
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : No, if they don't know.
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Mr. Kinnicott's Secretary : Are you ill?
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : No. No, no. No, a thought just struck me.
Mr. Kinnicott's Secretary : Oh, that's too bad.
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Mr. Orrin Kinnicott : I'll handle him. And if you want me to, I'll handle her.
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Well, I'd - oh, no, no. Orrin, I don't want to trouble you. If you'll handle him. I'll handle her.
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Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : You'd forgotten me yourself.
Marion Forsythe : Forgotten? Oh, no. No, the Bunny I remembered was another Bunny.
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Marion Forsythe : She'll be very, very proud of you Bunny.
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : It's funny. Very funny.