The Love Bug 1968 - Movie Quotes

Carole Bennett Help! I'm a prisoner! I can't get out!

Van Hippy We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.

[Van Hippy looks over at his hippy partner, as Carole hits the window, with both palms]

Van Hippy Huh, a couple of weirdos, Guenivere.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jim Douglas Why is it the only food we have in this house is parrot food? I mean, we don't *have* a parrot.

Tennessee Steinmetz Eat that! That's good. That's pressed kelp. That aerates your liver.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Peter Thorndyke What part of Ireland did you say your mother came from?

Tennessee Steinmetz Coney, Ireland.

[laughs drunkenly]

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz Herbie's all right.

Jim Douglas Who's Herbie?

Tennessee Steinmetz This little car. Named after my Uncle Herb. He used to box middleweight. Preliminary, mostly. Gradually, his nose got shaped more and more like to remind me of this little car. Do you mind?

Jim Douglas [laughing with him] Whatever you say, Tennessee.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[a police car drives up as Jim stops Herbie from driving off the Golden Gate Bridge with Jim winding up on the car's hood]

Policeman on Bridge [examining Jim's unconscious body on Herbie's hood] Boy, was he lucky. This little car saved his life.

Policeman on bridge What do you mean the car saved his life?

Policeman on Bridge Well, that's what it looked like for a moment there. I...

[laughs nervously]

Policeman on Bridge You know how funny things look in the fog sometimes?

Policeman on bridge I think you've been up on that Haight-Ashbury beat too long.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[during the big race, Thorndyke and Havershaw have switched the signs leading to Placerville and the Lost Bonanza Mine]

Peter Thorndyke How true it is that the simplest ways are the best ways after all.

Havershaw That's what I always say, sir.

Peter Thorndyke Oh, shut up.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Peter Thorndyke Good sir, would you say this is a compact car?... You do not answer. Well, let me tell you that you've never heard of a compact car until you see what I'm going to do with this. Mr. Douglas, I have a friend with a claw-and-hook auto-wrecking company in San Francisco, and he's going to work on your car. Maybe he'll transform it into a birdbath. Or what about a nice doormat, so I can wipe my feet on it every day. It's too bad this thing doesn't have the gumption to get up to the starting line this morning. I should have enjoyed beating it.

[kicks Herbie again]

Tennessee Steinmetz [croaking, grunting] AUWWW...!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett [answering phone] Yes, good afternoon... oh, I think that should be quite all right... uh, 7:30 will be fine! Yes, bye!

[hangs up phone]

Carole Bennett I think I'll...

Peter Thorndyke I'd like you to see this Douglas, get to know him. Who knows? If he has the talents of which I believe him capable, perhaps we can give him the opportunity... of joining our organization, racing under our colors. But first, we must know something about him.

Carole Bennett How about tonight?

Peter Thorndyke Very good.

Carole Bennett At 7:30?

Peter Thorndyke Very good! Why waste time? Oh, and Carole, another thing. Leave your car. Take the Special. He likes that one.

Carole Bennett Uh, thank you. I think I ought to tell you that was Mr Douglas who just called.

Peter Thorndyke Excellent. Strike while the iron is hot.

Carole Bennett In all honesty I should like to point out that I agreed to have dinner with him BEFORE you suggested it.

Peter Thorndyke I salute your honesty my dear. A quality not necessarily to be despised

Carole Bennett Thank you.

[Exits with a look of suspicion]

Peter Thorndyke [to himself] A very loyal girl.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Peter Thorndyke Good evening.

Tennessee Steinmetz Sorry, the other rats are out for the evening!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz I'm not saying a mechanical thing, can't be a friend. Like when, I was broke one summer, and there was this giant claw-machine in the Sutro amusement park, and it would grab cameras and watches and drop 'em down a hole to me, and I would hock 'em and buy lunch. You followin' me?

Jim Douglas Yeah, yeah... I think you were up on that mountaintop too long.

Tennessee Steinmetz Contrariwise, the traffic light down the street hates my guts. I don't know why, but in the last six months, I haven't caught anything but a stop signal. And it makes me wait SIX SECONDS LONGER than anybody else; I timed it! 'Course, those things like that happen to lots of other people, too, but the other people, they don't tell no other people, because the other people, they'd say, "Hey-ey-ey-ey-ey."

Jim Douglas Tennessee, that traffic light is a lot of nuts and bolts. This little car, a lot of nuts and bolts. Everything explains itself one way or the other.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tang Wu A wise man once said - 'When you come to last page, close the book.'

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[Tenessee's car is gone]

Jim Douglas Where's the beast? You didn't cut up the Edsel!

[the Edsel grill is hanging on a rack with many cut up car parts]

Tennessee Steinmetz Came over me all of a sudden. Seemed like the only decent thing do. Believe me, Jim, it'll be happier up there.

[Jim suddenly bursts into laughter]

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Havershaw Here it comes again, sir.

Peter Thorndyke Havershaw, I'm not a cowardly man, but I am beginning to sense, and that thing is out to get me.

Havershaw Now, now, none of that, sir. We're not losing our nerve, are we?

Peter Thorndyke BLAST you, Havershaw! How dare you patronize me! I am not losing my nerve!

Havershaw No, sir. No, sir, of course not. No, no.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz [holding a pot full of coffee while using a welding iron to fire it up, and wearing big gloves] The trick is always remember to have asbestos gloves when you make coffee this way.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[first lines]

Jim Douglas I'd like another shot at that prize money. Okay for next Sunday?

Bice No, Jim, it ain't okay.

Jim Douglas Now, look, Bice, I know...

Bice No, *you* look. All my drivers are eighteen, nineteen... You're too old for these kid sports. You're liable to get hurt in there.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jim Douglas I may be kidding myself, but I think I can make something out of that sad little bucket of bolts.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[Thorndyke kicks not-yet-named "Herbie" the little white car in his shop]

Jim Douglas What's that for?

Peter Thorndyke I beg your pardon!

Jim Douglas Well, why don't you let the little car alone?

Peter Thorndyke Are you presuming to tell me what to do in my own establishment?

Jim Douglas Okay, I'm out of line. It just bugs me to see somebody abusing a decent piece of machinery.

Peter Thorndyke [laughs] How fascinating. Well, now that we've had the benefit of your point of view, shall we regard our relationship as terminated?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jim Douglas Has everybody gone nuts around here? I can understand how Tennessee feels, he's just in off a flying saucer.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett I wonder if your reputation is altogether true.

Jim Douglas What's my reputation?

Carole Bennett Well, I've heard that Jim Douglas is only interested in fast cars and easy money.

Jim Douglas Not true.

Carole Bennett Oh.

Jim Douglas Mm-hmm. You know something else?

Carole Bennett What?

Jim Douglas When the light hits you just right, you're as beautiful as General Grant on a fifty-dollar bill.

[kiss]

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[Jim brings the malfunctioning Herbie back to Thorndyke. It accidentally bangs against Thorndyke's Rolls Royce and stops. Jim gets out]

Peter Thorndyke Have you gone mad?

Jim Douglas Okay, what's the joke?

Peter Thorndyke What do you mean?

Jim Douglas I don't know how you rigged it, but I'm sure that car is a real cut-up when a convention comes to town.

Peter Thorndyke What in the name of...

Jim Douglas If I'd wanted a trick car, I would have bought one at a joke shop.

Peter Thorndyke [as Carole joins him] Allow me to say that I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. You come billowing up in that beastly little car, and assault my personal Rolls Royce.

Jim Douglas ...I brought it back! I want my money, I want the papers I signed, and then I'll get outta here, and you two clowns can... can have your little laugh.

Carole Bennett Mr. Douglas, if there is anything wrong with the car, would you be good enough to tell me what it is?

Jim Douglas Well, there's nothing essentially wrong with the car. It's just that it wants to go one way and I'd like to go the other.

Peter Thorndyke Well, whatever it is, none of it is covered in our gilt-headed guarantee.

Jim Douglas Oh, I'm sure of that.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jim Douglas [on the phone] Yeah, yeah, Thorndyke. I know what you did to my car. You need your brains kicked out.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Bice You used to be a big-track driver, ain't you got no pride?

Jim Douglas I ran out of pride when I ran out of cars.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tang Wu I think now is chance to remove egg foo young off of face.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[Tennessee Steinmitz spoke Chinese, slowly to Mister Wu. Then when Tennessee spoke English, to Jim Douglas, Mr Wu quickly speaks]

Tang Wu Now, you speak my language.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett Have you had much experience with cars?

Jim Douglas Look, lady, by profession, I'm a racing driver.

Carole Bennett Oh, *that* Jim Douglas.

Jim Douglas What do you mean, "*that* Jim Douglas"?

Carole Bennett Let's see, two years ago, at Laguna Seca, you spun out and hung a beautiful Buick Special on the back fence. At Willow Springs, was it a year ago... last February, you sprayed a Lotus all over the infield.

Jim Douglas How do you know all that?

Carole Bennett I have trouble with names and faces, but I never forget a car.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett You aren't winning any of those races! You couldn't win a game of marbles against a 12-toed myopic rhinoceros!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett Mr. Douglas needs a car, and for a very low amount down and the usual monthly payments, the car will become his.

Peter Thorndyke Very well, even though my personal inclination is to have Mr. Douglas clapped into jail and this four-wheeled contrivance dropped into the Bay!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz [Thorndyke has a bear in his car and not Havershaw] Who's the guy in the fur coat?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[during the big race, Thorndyke's car bumps Herbie off the road and down a hill]

Havershaw What happened to it?

Peter Thorndyke I'd say it's gone for that last big lube job up yonder.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Detective [to Jim, about the not-yet-named "Herbie" white VW bug] Forgive me for pointing, but have you ever seen that car before?

Jim Douglas No. No, I haven't.

Tennessee Steinmetz Hey, he's a cute little fellow.

Jim Douglas [takes another look] Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think I saw that car at an agency yesterday.

Detective Now, permit me to inform you of the following: first, say nothing that would jeopardize your constitutional rights. And second, the minute that you get downtown, I would advise that you find a good lawyer. Shall we go?

Jim Douglas Go? What for?

Detective On suspicion of grand theft.

Jim Douglas Now wait a minute, there's something cockeyed about this. How did that little car get here?

Detective I share your curiosity. Shall we go?

[Jim laughs]

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett Excuse me, Mr. Thorndyke, but if I sold this gentleman the car, I feel a certain responsibility.

[to Jim]

Carole Bennett Do you mind if I try it?

[Jim nods and motions her to go ahead; they go over to the VW Bug]

Peter Thorndyke [shocked] Miss Bennett! Our dinner engagement!

Carole Bennett [getting in] I won't be a minute.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[Thorndyke's car nudged Herbie so that one of its wheels comes off]

Tennessee Steinmetz [seeing wheel] Hey! Where'd that wheel come from?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz It's a matter of talking their language. You have a little feel for tradition and some courtesy, you'd be surprised, you can unscrew the "unscrutable".

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Havershaw [Thorndyke and Havershaw are stopping in the middle of the race to have some chilled wine] You know something about champagne, sir?

Peter Thorndyke Havershaw, if you tell me that the bubbles tickle your nose, I shall probably kill you!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[in the midst of arguing with Carole, Jim shouts over to Tennessee over the noise]

Jim Douglas WILL YOU KNOCK IT OFF OUT THERE, TENNESSEE? Can't hear myself think.

Tennessee Steinmetz I'm not out there, crumb. I'm in here.

Jim Douglas Well, hold it down!

[to Carole]

Jim Douglas I...

[Jim turns back to Tennessee who shrugs]

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz [Herbie's spare tire is cut into pieces - a result of Thorndyke's trickery] Thorndyke again! He made a pizza out of it!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carhop What's the rush, tiger? We got all night.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carhop Hey, knock it off, will ya, sis? I ain't sayin' this is the classiest joint in town, but we gotta draw the line somewhere. Come on, back in your seat! Why don't you go up to Seabreeze Point? Fuzz don't bother you much up there.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Boy Driving Dune-buggy How about it, Dad? Want to give that doodle bug a work out? I'll go easy on ya.

Jim Douglas Be serious, will you.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz This voice inside of me continued as follows: "This is nowhere. Ya gotta make a new scene. Ya gotta change your bag." That's when I split. I went to Tibet, to a mountaintop, with swamis and monks. I discovered my real self. It was wonderful.

Jim Douglas I don't have to go to Tibet. I know who I am. I know what I want.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Boy Driving Dune-buggy Outta sight, man. I wouldn't have believed it.

Girl In Dune-buggy Groovy, Pop. Groo-vy!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz If everything you say about this car is true, it's already starting to happen!

Jim Douglas What's starting to happen?

Tennessee Steinmetz Us human beings. We had a chance to make something out of this world. We blew it. Okay. Another kind of civilization is gonna take a turn.

Jim Douglas Give me an 11-mil wrench, will you.

Tennessee Steinmetz I'm sitting up on top of this mountain, right?

Jim Douglas Right.

Tennessee Steinmetz I'm surrounded by these gurus and swamis and monks, right?

Jim Douglas Right.

Tennessee Steinmetz I'm lookin' at my stomach.

Jim Douglas Yeah.

Tennessee Steinmetz I'm knockin' back a little rice wine.

Jim Douglas Um-hmm.

Tennessee Steinmetz Got some contemplation goin'; I see things like they are. I coulda told you all this was comin'.

Jim Douglas What's coming?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jim Douglas Don't lose your grip, old buddy. This little car didn't do one thing tonight that can't be explained in terms of short circuits, sprung doors, grabbing steering, worn knuckles, maybe some advertising gimmick. I'll fix it.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Peter Thorndyke That rotten car is driving me piffy!

Carole Bennett Has it occurred to you it may not be the rotten car? Perhaps it's the way Mr Douglas drives.

Peter Thorndyke Balderdash!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz You gonna race?

Jim Douglas What do you think?

Tennessee Steinmetz Oh, boy! Won't Herbie love that! Le Mans, Monte Carlo. Thrills, glamour, the roar of the crowd!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Peter Thorndyke A moment ago, you mentioned teaching me a lesson. Do I now detect a note of timidity?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Association President We've tried to reduce the rules to a minimum. Instead of all this technical namby-pamby there's so much of today, we're putting the emphasis on speed, endurance and courage, the way it used to be. As you know, this is open formula racing. Anything goes.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz [drunkenly] You wanna know the secret of the little car?

Peter Thorndyke I do, indeed.

Tennessee Steinmetz I'll tell ya the secret of the little car.

Peter Thorndyke No, no, no. Just a minute.

[gets pen and paper]

Peter Thorndyke All right. Tell me.

Tennessee Steinmetz It's heart. That's what it is: Heart.

Peter Thorndyke Heart. Yes.

[Disappointed]

Peter Thorndyke Yes, I'm sure I'm gonna make a note of that.

[Puts his pen and paper in his mug and Tennessee tops it off with whip cream]

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett You let that little car get under your skin, didn't you?

Jim Douglas I don't know. There's a lot of gloop been written about, uh, the bond between a man and his automobile - and how he hates it sometimes, mostly how he loves it. He showers gifts on it in the way of accessories and all that. He gets hysterical if somebody scratches the paint or - makes it lose face on the freeway. Maybe some of those feelings got into the machinery.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett Headache gone?

Peter Thorndyke All gone. Anticipation of victory is the purest form of aspirin. This is my day.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz [toasts] Up the Irish.

Peter Thorndyke To the little car, a gallant adversary. And may the best car win at Riverside.

Tennessee Steinmetz May the best car win.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Gas Station Attendant My father say, "Hurry is waste. Waste is cracked bowl which never know rice."

Peter Thorndyke I don't care how cracked your father's rice bowl is!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett You want me to tell you something, my windbag friend? I admit, I didn't believe it when Tennessee told me before, but now I see it makes all kinds of sense.

Jim Douglas W-W-What?

Carole Bennett That thimble head of yours has gotten all swelled up.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[hearing smashing noises, Jim comes out of the firehouse to see Herbie violently smashing into his new car]

Jim Douglas Noooo!

[grabs shovel and begins hitting Herbie]

Tennessee Steinmetz Stop it, stop it! You don't know what you're doin'!

Jim Douglas Look! Look what it did to my car.

Tennessee Steinmetz Okay, okay, maybe it was a little jealous.

Jim Douglas Of course it's jealous. It's always been jealous because I get credit for winning those races!

[as Jim says this, he stops himself and drops the shovel. Herbie stops moving as well]

Tennessee Steinmetz Go on. Realize what you're sayin'?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jim Douglas I think Mr. Thorndyke is a little mixed up about who or what won that race.

Peter Thorndyke And what does that mean?

Jim Douglas Some day I'll teach you not to confuse the car with the driver.

Peter Thorndyke I should welcome the opportunity.

Carole Bennett Mr. Thorndyke, I think that's a very good idea of yours.

Peter Thorndyke What is?

Carole Bennett You're racing in the Libra Open at Riverside at the end of the month, right?

Peter Thorndyke Yes.

Carole Bennett Well, I'm sure that Mr. Douglas would like to get the remainder of his payments off his back.

Peter Thorndyke No doubt. Why should I think that is such a good idea?

Carole Bennett Well, if Mr. Douglas entered the race, he could bet his share of the little car against the remaining payments.

Peter Thorndyke [liking the idea] What do you say, Douglas? Winner to become the sole owner of the car.

[Jim says nothing, but stands up and walks a few feet away]

Peter Thorndyke A moment ago, you mentioned teaching me a lesson. Do I now detect a note of timidity?

Jim Douglas Racing. That's the name of the game, isn't it? Win or lose, put up or shut up. You got yourself a deal, Thorndyke.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jim Douglas I'll do it! Okay, I'll do it! But I just want to go on record, I have, I have seen some crummy stunts in my time used to sell cars, but this beats everything! To plant this bug in the possession of an innocent man, and then to accuse me of stealing it!

Peter Thorndyke How dare you, sir. Are you suggesting that I would stoop to such tactics?

Jim Douglas That's exactly what I'm suggesting!

Peter Thorndyke In the first place, it might interest you to that under normal circumstances, I would never sell a car to someone with whom I'm not; well shall we say, socially compatible.

Jim Douglas Socially compatible? You would sell a car!

Carole Bennett Please! Please, let's not go through that again. I think we've worked it out very well. Mr. Douglas needs a car, and for a very low amount down, and the usual monthly payments... the car will become his.

Peter Thorndyke Very well. Even though my personal inclination is to have Mr. Douglas tapped into jail and this four wheel contrivance dropped into the bay!

Detective I think Mr. Thorndyke is being very fair.

Jim Douglas Fair! It's not fair, I'm being muscled! I just want you know that I know, I know it and I don't like it!

Carole Bennett I'll draw the papers. Would you come with me please?

Peter Thorndyke Then get Mr. Douglas and his acquisition out of here before I lose my temper!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Flabbergasted Driver [seeing Jim sticking his feet out of the window of the moving volkswagen] What's the matter? You from L.A. or something?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz [Thorndyke's car blares by, with a bear sitting in Havershaw's place in the passenger seat] Who's the guy in the fur-coat?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Peter Thorndyke [to Carole as he is about to enter a road race against Jim] You keep your eye on your friend in the Bug, my dear - I'm going to squash him!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Peter Thorndyke You certainly picked the right crew. Toodle-oo!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz You don't believe a word I said about this little car, do ya?

Carole Bennett Well, there's always a first time. I imagine Adam thought woman was a pretty funny piece of equipment when he met Eve.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Peter Thorndyke [gleefully] There are times like this when I really don't like myself very much.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[Thorndyke pulls up to the firehouse after everyone has been fighting]

Peter Thorndyke At a time like this, whatever kind of time it is, I always say that money serves to ease the pain.

[to Carole]

Peter Thorndyke Good evening, my dear.

[to Jim, handing him money]

Peter Thorndyke Here you are, sir. Fifteen hundred dollars for the small car, just as I promised. I note it's not in mint condition, but I am nothing if not always a man of my word.

[Jim is silent]

Peter Thorndyke Uh, uh, $2000. What about $2000? It's the least I can do to help a fellow human at a time like this. Shall we consider it a deal?

Jim Douglas Two thousand dollars?

Peter Thorndyke Yes.

Jim Douglas Two thousand dollars for that little beat-up car? Why?

Peter Thorndyke Well, you could say I have a warm place in my heart for the dear little thing.

Jim Douglas You don't have a warm place on your whole body. What do you want it for?

Peter Thorndyke You don't want it, I do. Take the money!

[Jim jumps up from where he's been sitting and grabs Thorndyke by the collar and holds him against the wall]

Jim Douglas [angry] You... You too!

Peter Thorndyke Now, look, Douglas, there's no need to be abusive. I'm trying to give you some money!

Jim Douglas I don't want your money! What do you want the car for?

[Thorndyke stammers fearfully]

Jim Douglas You believe it. You believe it too!

Peter Thorndyke Believe what?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett [on telephone with Jim Douglas] Yes, good afternoon? Oh, I think that should be quite all right. Uh, 7:30 will be fine. Yes, bye.

[hangs up]

Carole Bennett I think I'll...

Peter Thorndyke I'd like you to see this Douglas. get to know him. Who knows? If he has the talents of which I believe him capable, perhaps we can give him the opportunity... of joining our organization, racing under our colours. But first we must know something about him.

Carole Bennett How about tonight?

Peter Thorndyke Very good.

Carole Bennett At 7:30?

Peter Thorndyke Very good! Why waste time? Oh and Carole, leave your car. Take the special. He likes that one.

Carole Bennett Uh, thank you... I think I ought to tell you that was Mr. Douglas who just called.

Peter Thorndyke Excellent. Strike while the iron is hot.

Carole Bennett In all honesty I should like to point out that I agreed to have dinner with him, before you suggested it.

Peter Thorndyke I salute your honesty, my dear. A quality not necessarily to be despised.

Carole Bennett Thank you.

[exits with a look of suspicion]

Peter Thorndyke A very loyal girl...

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz [Talks to Herbie over the red car] Don't pay any attention. Don't even look at it.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz Don't let it get ya, Herbie. Jim didn't mean it. Don't forget: He isn't the first guy ever to lose his head over a bucket seat and a paint job. He'll come to his senses.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jim Douglas Without a real car, I'm only half a man.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Tennessee Steinmetz Jim, it's happening right under our noses and we can't see it. We take machines and we stuff 'em with information until they're smarter than we are. Take a car. Most guys spread more love and time and money on their car in a week than they do on their wife and kids in a year. Pretty soon, you know what? The machine starts to think it *is* somebody.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Peter Thorndyke At a time like this, whatever kind of time it is, I always say money serves to ease the pain.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Carole Bennett [Herbie is acting up] Will you stop the car, please?

Jim Douglas I'm trying! Look!

[he tries to take the key out and press the brakes]

Jim Douglas It's just like I told you! This thing is starting to act up again.

Carole Bennett How very odd; when I was driving, there was no problem whatsoever.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jim Douglas What do you know? Engine stalled.

Carole Bennett [tries to get out] How about that? Door's stuck. That's how it is with cars sometimes. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens next.

Jim Douglas Well, as someone very wisely once said, "That's how it is with cars sometimes."

Carole Bennett I just said that.

Jim Douglas Oh.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jim Douglas You don't understand what happens, do you? They make ten thousand cars, they make them exactly the same way, and one or two of 'em turn out to be something special. Nobody knows why.

Tennessee Steinmetz I know why.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

The Love Bug Movie Quotes