Quotes from Some Like It Hot (1959)

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Jack Lemmon
Daphne: [in the berth, with the lady band members passing food around and a corkscrew's been brought] Girls, keep it down! You'll wake up the neighbours downstairs, now Josephine... WATCH THAT CORKSCREW!
- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Pat O'Brien
Spats Colombo: [when his speakeasy is raided] What's the rap this time?
Mulligan: Embalming people with coffee - 86 proof.
- Pat O'Brien (as Det. Mulligan) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Pat O'Brien
Spats Colombo: Hello, copper. What brings you to Miami?
Mulligan: Heard you "opera lovers" were having a convention, so I thought I'd better be around in case anybody decided to sing.
- Pat O'Brien (as Det. Mulligan) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Joe E. Brown
Osgood: You know, I've always been *fascinated* by show business.
Daphne: Is that so?
Osgood: Yes. As a matter of fact it's cost my family quite a bit of money.
Daphne: Oh, you invest in shows?
Osgood: Showgirls. I've been married seven or eight times.
Daphne: You're not sure?
Osgood: Mama is keeping score.
- Joe E. Brown (as Osgood Fielding III) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

George Raft
Mulligan: You shave with your spats on?
Spats Colombo: I sleep with my spats on.
- George Raft (as Spats Colombo) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Nehemiah Persoff
Little Bonaparte: [thick Italian accent] Thank you, fellow opera-lovers. It's been ten years since I elected myself president of dis organization... an' if I say so myself, you made duh right choice. Let's look at duh record: In duh lass fissel year we made a hundred an' twelve million dollars before taxes... only we ain't paying no taxes!
- Nehemiah Persoff (as Little Bonaparte) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Jack Lemmon
Beinstock: [as Daphne falls up the train steps] . Whoops-a-daisy! [smacks his/her bottom]
Daphne: Fresh!
- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Pat O'Brien
Toothpick Charlie: Look, chief, I better blow 'cause if Columbo sees me, it's gonna be "Goodbye Charlie!"
Mulligan: Goodbye, Charlie.
- Pat O'Brien (as Det. Mulligan) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Harry Wilson
Bouncer: [examining a golf bag] What's in here?
Spats' Henchman: My golf clubs. The putter, niblick, number three iron...
Bouncer: [pulling out a Tommy sub-machine gun] What's this?
Spats' Henchman: My mashie!
- Harry Wilson (as Spats' Henchman) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Dave Barry
Sweet Sue: Idiot broads! Here we are, all packed, ready to leave for Miami, and what happens? The saxophone runs off with a Bible salesman, and the bass fiddle gets herself pregnant! Beinstock, I ought to fire you!
Beinstock: Me? I'm the manager of the band, not the night watchman.
- Dave Barry (as Beinstock) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

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