Heat Lightning (1934)

Aline MacMahon: Olga

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• Myra : We have no men working here.

  Gladys - the Wife : Do you mean to say you two girls try to run this place all alone?

  Olga : And we are doing all right too.

• Myra : I know you don't understand my getting a thrill out of being with him.

  Olga : Yes, I do. It's the same thrill you get out of seeing a rat run across a bedroom floor.

• George : So that's the kid sister, huh? The one you had in school.

  Olga : Yes. And she doesn't know anything about you - or the cabaret back in Tulsa. That's the way I'd like to have it left.

• Olga : He and I are going to have our own little war dance.

• Olga : When you're old enough to be going places, you'll be smart enough to realize that you're better off where you are. I hope.

• George : How long you been out here?

  Olga : Long enough to build up something that I don't want to see torn down.

• Olga : Desert towns don't ask any questions. It's no good telling people things they aren't interested in.

• Olga : Now, let's understand each other, Gerry. If you're staying on here because you've got any ideas in your head, you might just as well be on your way. Now, I'm not anything like that woman you knew back in Oklahoma. Whatever I was before, I'm different now. And I intend to stay different. Everything between you and me is past. Forgotten. I left you and that whole rotten life. I came out here and I started fresh and clean. I work pretty hard for what I've got and I'm not going to lose it now. Nor for you, not for anybody. So don't you think I'm the same woman that used to eat out of your hand because I'm not. I'm a whole lot wiser. And just you put that into that head of yours.

• George : It's a long time since we've had a talk.

  Olga : It's longer than that since we've had anything worthwhile talking about.

• George : Do you like it better here than you did in Tulsa?

  Olga : I'm happy here. I know what living is about for the first time. I wouldn't change what I've got here for anything.

  George : Never get lonesome?

  Olga : I'm too busy.

  George : Oh, I bet you think about the old town once in a while. Oil flares lighting up the streets. Everything wide open. Dance halls, gambling, girls.

  Olga : Yeah. Don't forget the girls.

• Mrs. Tifton : I demand this man's arrest. He's a Peeping Tom.

  Jeff : Hey, listen, she's got me all wrong. I'm out taking a walk, see. How do I know I'm gonna come around a corner and run into a dame standing with a piece of soap in her hand? I ain't used to seeing women taking baths out in the middle of the desert.

  Mrs. Tifton : Well, you certainly stared as though you'd never seen a woman at all before.

  Jeff : Listen, Toots. I seen plenty. And I seen a lot better than you.

  Mrs. Tifton : Well, you certainly seemed to be enjoying it at the time. You know, you could have turned around if you didn't like it.

  Jeff : Yeah? And if you didn't like it you could have ducked down. It don't take no longer to do one than the other.

  Mrs. Tifton : I demand this man's arrest immediately!

  Olga : That might not be wise. This gentleman might enter counter charges demanding your arrest on the grounds of immoral exposure.

  Mrs. Tifton : Huh?

• George : Whatever it was, between us, we had some rotten times in the old days and we had some swell ones. I'm remembering the swell ones now. You seem to be remembering the rotten ones.

  Olga : I'm remembering both, Gerry. I'm calling it evens. And quits.

• Myra : I don't feel like being balled out.

  Olga : Well, it looks like it's a little late for that now.

• Olga : They aren't gypsies and they're perfectly harmless. They're just a Mexican family on its way to a fiesta.

• Mrs. Ashton-Ashley : We thought we heard shooting!

  Olga : You did. I found a big rat running around in the lunch room.