It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

Victor Moore: Aloysius T. McKeever

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• Aloysius T. McKeever : And I would like to feel that you're all my friends. For to be without friends is a serious form of poverty.

• Aloysius T. McKeever : Mike, a house - any house - is only what its occupants make it.

• Aloysius T. McKeever : Where do you live?

  Trudy O'Connor : In Dubuque, with my thirteen brothers and sisters.

  Jim Bullock : Well, the neighbors must call your house the Stork Club.

• Aloysius T. McKeever : That proves what I've always believed. Indigestion is caused by unhappiness. If you don't like the things the world makes you do, you're not hungry.

• Gates Patrolman Cecil Felton : Well, I'll be a monkey's orphan.

  Aloysius T. McKeever : Oh come, sir. Your family connections must be better than that.

• Aloysius T. McKeever : Not in my twenty years of living as a guest in other people's homes have I ever been faced with a situation like this.

• Aloysius T. McKeever : The essence of big business, gentlemen, is never put one worry ahead of another.

• Aloysius T. McKeever : Oh, Mike. I'm sorry to interrupt your negotiations. I know you have millions and millions of dollars hanging in the balance. But, Mike, you didn't make your bed this morning.

• Aloysius T. McKeever : Well, I believe that people who require money should work for it. As for myself, I gave up working years ago. I never could make enough to satisfy my lavish tastes. So, I let other people work for it, and I enjoy it.

• Aloysius T. McKeever : You'll find plenty of vacancies if you boys just use your heads. That came out sounding a little different from the way I meant it.

• Jim Bullock : Why don't you keep him on a leash?

  Aloysius T. McKeever : Well, he's not afraid I'll run away, are you Sam?