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Lines I Often Quote

posted 19 years ago by BigIdeasMolitz
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Alan Swann from da movies???

Jolson's coming???

Rookie...a glass-a selzta
Pick-it-uppppppppp

Rookie, your meatloaf mindinao was superb
Thank you, that takes two days to prepare, you know
What was that pungent flavor?
Parrot (everyone spits) and they put up some squawk
I can imagine...er what was that dish
Phillipino pork and beans
Where's the pork'
You can't there's Jews here...I guess if youw ant to be technical...

Welcome to our humble chapeau
Two years at the Sorbonne, she still gets it wrong

King does that monologue word for word or I walk..I walk
Sy don't go do something crazy
Sy, do you smell something...phew it's your monologue
KC...pull
Hey we're not married to it babe

Sy Benson...a tower of jello

Well I guess you COULD be funny...

Hey Jeanine, whenaya gonna let me in your box?

No tongue on show day
Tongue...death

And many, many more

[–] susannah-5 17 years ago

"Captain from Crap!" -- so appropriate for describing so much of modern life . . .

Susannah

[–] qtandem 17 years ago

I don't know exactly how it goes... Benjy says something to Swann about the number of women he's been married to, and Swann replies:
'I didn't marry them, they married me'.

[–] jnnfrbryc 17 years ago

"Hey, somebody stole my gal!"

[–] pninson 16 years ago

My personal favorite:

"I DO feel better! I LIKE the removal business!"

We report, you decide; but we decide what to report.

[–] jdmartin61 16 years ago

Sy Benson (Bill Macy)
(After his brilliant script is soundly rejected by the star of the show): We're not married to it!

[–] Kadien 16 years ago

King: Who are you to talk to me like that you little Jiminy Cricket pest BASTARD! Alright he gets one more chance..
Sy: No!
King: Yes!
Sy: YES!!

Swann: I'm not allowed to wear a watch. Can't trust them. One hand is shorter than the other.

Sy: Look kid it's not that it wasn't funny, it's just that it wasn't...funny.

Swann: (watching film of himself swordfighting another actor) Good God it's Renfy! I thought he was dead! (actor falls from high staircase) Oh! So he is!

Swann: I haven't performed in front of an audience for twenty-eight years! I played a butler once in repertory. I HAD ONE LINE!! I forgot it!

Many many happy memories of watching this great film with my much-missed dad, we had the exact same sense of humour and would just roll about laughing at this film. Completely genius comedy, can't imagine anyone not finding it hilarious.

British by birth, English by the grace of fate.

[–] hammerofthehouse 16 years ago

Leo: Alfie, where is he?
Alfie: He's in his dressing room.
Sy: Drunk
Alfie: He's taking a nap
Sy: I'm gonna see what kind of a nap he's taking.
Alfie: I don't think so.
Sy: Ya, better let him rest.

Sy: you little smart ass son of a bitch bastard! You're through here!

Alan Swan: You know what they say about me Stoneberg, 'You can depend on Alan Swan, he will ALWAYS let you down."

Benji: Alfie, take this bum to the Waldorf

King Kaiser (after accidentally knocking out Sy): Get him some first aid...what a putz. Terrible, terrible...

Alan Swan: I want to go to the Waldorf!

Alan Swan: thats a sad sight
Benji: You're a sadder sight

Belle (benjis mom): Shame on you Swanee
Alan Swan: Yes, you're right belle, shame on me indeed.

Karl Rojack: Funny huh? Let me tell you about the business I'm in. I'm in the
Removal Business. Now, if i were to feel that this stupid thing from this stupid show was bothering me, I'd remove it. You see its gone, and I feel good. That's how the Removal Business works. Do I make myself clear.

All classic stuff!

[–] jdmartin61 16 years ago

Swan (Insecure frustrated "has-been" at appearing on live TV): I'm not an actor I'm a MOVIE STAR!

[–] sober_gaijin 15 years ago

Whoever you were in those movies, those silly goddamn heroes meant a lot to me! What does it matter if it was an illusion? It worked! So don't tell me this is you life-size. I can't use you life-size. I need Alan Swanns as big as I can get them! And let me tell you something: you couldn't have convinced me the way you did unless somewhere in you you had that courage! Nobody's that good an actor! You are that silly goddamn hero!

[–] vosges1945 15 years ago

It was supposed to be a duel - over that Peron dame I think....

[–] msparrow63 15 years ago

Hey this is for ladies
Swan: (unzipping fly)So is this but occasionally i have to run a little water through it!

"You speak treason!"
"Fluently"

[–] scribe1964 15 years ago

"What's that smell? It's coming from this script!"

[–] ElenaP-3 12 years ago

Belle Carroca (welcoming Alan Swann and Benjy into the apartment: "Welcome to our chapeau!"
Benjy: "Two years at the Sorbonne and she still can't speak French!"

[–] information_police 11 years ago

Can't say they are lines I ever quote but a couple of my fav from this are when Joe Balogna hands his assistant some cash and says, "Buy him a set of tires" and when Benji's mom comes out in her wedding dress and says, "I've only worn it once..."

Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.

[–] doug65oh 10 years ago

I thought it was Morty's wife Sadie wore the wedding dress?

[–] lisado 11 years ago

Hard to believe all these posts, yet I don't think my own favorite is here: "Oh, God, this makes me happy!!"

[–] backdraft4750 11 years ago

Katherine...Jews know two things....Suffering, and where to find great Chinese food.