Duke d'Escargot: "What brings you to Paris?"
Claude: "Oh, you might say a little business…"
Charles: "...and a little pleasure."
Duke d'Escargot: "Which do you prefer? Business, or pleasure?"
Charles: "Well that depends on what you regard as business."
Claude: "And, what you may regard as...
Mr. Braddock: Ben, what are you doing?
Benjamin: Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.
Mr. Braddock: Why?
Benjamin: Well, it's very comfortable just to drift here.
Mr. Braddock: Have you thought about graduate school?
Benjamin: No.
Mr. Braddock: Would you mind telling...
Allan: If that plane leaves the ground, and you're not on it with him, you'll regret it - maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
Linda: That's beautiful!
Allan: It's from Casablanca; I waited my whole life to say it.
(Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Play It...
Harmonica: "Did you bring a horse for me?"
Snaky: "Well...
looks like we're...
looks like we're shy one horse."
Harmonica: "You brought two too many."
(Charles Bronson & Jack Elam, Once Upon A Time In The West)
"I probably should have told you this before but, you see, well... insanity runs in my family.
It practically gallops!"
(Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster, Arsenic And Old Lace)
"Now, you listen to me! I don't want any plastics, and I don't want any ground floors, and I don't want to get married - ever - to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do. And you're... and you're...
Oh, Mary, Mary…"
(Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, It's A Wonderful Life)
"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if the room gets filled with lies like these, and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place."
(James Stewart as Jefferson Smith, Mr...
Costello: Look, You gotta pitcher on this team?
Abbott: Sure.
Costello: The pitcher's name?
Abbott: Tomorrow.
Costello: You don't want to tell me today?
Abbott: I'm telling you now.
Costello: Then go ahead.
Abbott: Tomorrow!
Costello: What time?
Abbott: What time what?
Costello: What...
"How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?"
(Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock, The Producers)
Hello, I must be going.
I cannot stay,
I came to say
I must be going.
I'm glad I came
but just the same
I must be going.
(Groucho as Capt. Spaulding, Animal Crackers)
"I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here."
(W.C. Fields, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break)
"What, you don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do you?"
(Keenan Wynn as Col. Bat Guano, Doctor Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)
"Well, there's nothing else I can say except that I'm glad that before I married you , you showed yourself in your true colors: You're just a butterfly."
(Virginia Walker as Alice Swallow - Bringing Up Baby)
"When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed...