Daniel Leeson [to Lucy]
You make me the happiest man in the world! I'm so happy I could eat three steaks.
Played by Esther Dale 
The Awful Truth (1937) · 50 quotes
The Awful Truth (1937) · 50 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in The Awful Truth (1937): in 11 of its 50 quotes
Most scenes with: Jerry Warriner (5), Lucy Warriner (5)
Just to prove that you're not mad, will ya give me a little kiss?...If you knew how crazy I am about ya, you wouldn't hesitate. I can't sleep nights...I must be in love, 'cause I started writin' poetry to ya.
To you my little prairie flower,
I'm thinkin' of you every hour.
Though now you're just a friend to me,
I wonder what the end will be.
Oh, you would make my life divine,
If you would change your name to mine.
More lines from Daniel Leeson
2 quotes Daniel Leeson Daniel Leeson [to Mrs. Leeson]
Well, I guess a man's best friend is his mother. I certainly learned about women from you.
Scenes with Daniel Leeson
8 scenes
Imagine you living right across the hall from us all of this time. [to Lucy] He's a stranger in town. He'd take it as being real neighborly of us if we show him some of the bright spots.
Daniel We're here on a visit. I'm in oil, you know.
Marinated, so to speak.
Daniel [laughing]
Say, that's a good one. I gotta remember to tell that to my mother.
Mr. Leeson. Won't you tell us something about Oklahoma?
Daniel Well, Oklahoma's pretty swell. I got quite a ranch down there. I'd like to have you see it sometime, Mrs. Warriner...I got cattle and horses and chickens and alfalfa.
This is my day to visit Mr. Smith.
He's only my husband for - how much longer is it now? Sixty days?
Fifty-nine.
Oh, that's better. Only fifty-nine days. Don't worry about him, he has a Continental mind.
Daniel [They shake hands]
I'm glad to know ya.
How can you be glad to know me? I know how I'd feel if I was sitting with a girl and her husband walked in.
I'll bet you do.
[To Lucy]
You know, I don't think you ought to go around telling people you're not married. He looks like a nice sort of fella. How do you think he feels?
Why don't you go and play with the dog?
Don't mind me.
Daniel Oklahoma.
Daniel Are you sure you don't like that fella?
Like him? You saw the way I treated him, didn't you?
Daniel That's what I mean. Back on my ranch, I got a little red rooster and a little brown hen and they fight all the time too, but every once in a while they make up again and they're right friendly.
Daniel I think I'm in love.
Mrs. Leeson
You keep your mind off women...She won't want to meet me. She knows that any other woman could see right through her.
Ah, so you're gonna live in Ok-la-ho-ma, eh Lucy? How I envy you. Ever since I was a small boy, that name has been filled with magic for me. Ok-la-ho-ma!
Daniel We're gonna live right in Oklahoma City!
Not Oklahoma City itself? Lucy, you lucky girl! No more running around to nightspots. No more prowling around in New York shops. I shall think of you every time a new show opens and say to myself, 'She's well out of it.'
Daniel New York's all right for a visit but I wouldn't want to live here.
I know I'll enjoy Oklahoma City.
Well, of course. And if it should get dull, you can always go over to Tul-sa for the weekend. I think a big change like that does one good, don't you?
I guess it was easier to her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs.
Daniel That'd go great out West.
It seemed to go pretty well with the cowboy here.
Do you want to change the subject?
Look, why don't you two get up and dance, or don't you dance?
Daniel Uh, Lucy doesn't care very much about dancing. Didn't you know that?
Did Lucy tell you that? She's holding out on ya. She's a beautiful dancer. Why, I used to call her 'Twinkle-toes.' [grinning] Hello Twinkle-toes.
Daniel Have you been foolin' me, you little rascal?
Well, to tell you the truth, Dan, I-I didn't think you cared much about it.
Daniel Care about it? Why, I could dance till the cows come home! I won several cups at it myself.
We never won any cups.
Maybe you had the wrong partner.
Daniel There's a lot in what you say.
Our divorce was one of those tragedies that you read about in the papers - a trusting woman and a worthless man. I was never good enough for Lucy, and well, finally she found it out. Lucy is above suspicion and always has been. She's as pure as the driven snow, as faithful as she is fair. And I would that I had been worthy to kiss the hem of her garment. Never during our marital bliss did she cause me one moment's uneasiness. Never did I have to ask, 'Lucy, where have you been? What were you doing?' I always knew. I tell you, something wonderful went out of my life when I lost her.
Daniel Oh, I know just how you feel.
How do ya know? How can you know how it feels to have used up the best years of a woman's life? Well, of course, that's the way it goes.