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Quotes from Twentieth Century (1934)

42 quotes
Walter Connolly
Oliver Webb: Hello, Myrtle, put the wizard on the wire. He's in the sanctum.
- Walter Connolly (as Oliver Webb) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Roscoe Karns
Oliver Webb: I don't know whether you realize it or not, Owen, but I've always had a terrific influence with her.
Owen O'Malley: Me too. Once I actually compelled her to admit it looked like rain.
- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Walter Connolly
Oliver Webb: O.J., suppose - just hypothetically, of course - that you, Mr. Bromo, could get together again with Miss Seltzer.
- Walter Connolly (as Oliver Webb) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Walter Connolly
Oliver Webb: What we need is a play, something she can read and see herself walking up and down the stage in.
- Walter Connolly (as Oliver Webb) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Roscoe Karns
Owen O'Malley: [referring to a policeman] This demigod thinks he's in darkest Russia.
- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Roscoe Karns
Owen O'Malley: He wants the pulsing life story of this Lily Garland trumpeted through the press by tomorrow morning. Where is the little baggage?
- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Roscoe Karns
Owen O'Malley: He's going to end up in the breadline unless he finds out that these jittery horse operas with a lot of people staggering around in foul iron suits ain't entertainment.
Oliver Webb: Where did you leave Jaffe?
Owen O'Malley: At the Morrison Hotel under the name of Hemingway, which he's adopted in his grief.
- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Roscoe Karns
Owen O'Malley: O.J., I'm in no mood for a lot of fuzzy lamentations.
- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Roscoe Karns
Owen O'Malley: What are you talking about? That's not a contract - it's a coronation. Barrels of rubies, enormous carpets for your pretty feet, pearl and onyx bathrubs, slews of myrmidons at your beck and call... Come on, sign it now while the sap is flowing.
- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Carole Lombard
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: All those opera tenors, acrobats, that Italian bicycle rider I told you about... they're all lies. The only man in my life was that cavalier in there. Oscar Jaffe.
- Carole Lombard (as Lily Garland aka Mildred Plotka) in Twentieth Century (1934)