Quotes from Twentieth Century (1934)

42 quotes
John Barrymore
Oscar Jaffe: Now, before we begin I want you all to remember one thing. No matter what I may say... no matter what I may do on this stage during our work... I love you all.
- John Barrymore (as Oscar Jaffe) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Roscoe Karns
Oscar Jaffe: Owen, something tells me you're not educated enough for this sort of thing. I'll have to hire some professor.
Owen O'Malley: Save your dough, sire. I yield the lamp of learning to no one.
- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)

John Barrymore
Oscar Jaffe: She loves me. I could tell that through her screaming.
- John Barrymore (as Oscar Jaffe) in Twentieth Century (1934)

John Barrymore
Oscar Jaffe: There's a message I want to go with those gardenias: "To my little madonna of the snows... " No, wait a minute. We won't use that this time.
- John Barrymore (as Oscar Jaffe) in Twentieth Century (1934)

John Barrymore
Oscar Jaffe: They are the only true actors we have left. Not like our cheap Broadway hams.
- John Barrymore (as Oscar Jaffe) in Twentieth Century (1934)

John Barrymore
Oscar Jaffe: Those movies you were in! It's sacrilege throwing you away on things like that. When I left that movie house, I felt some magnificent ruby had been thrown into a platter of lard.
- John Barrymore (as Oscar Jaffe) in Twentieth Century (1934)

John Barrymore
Oscar Jaffe: What do you know about talent? What do you know about the theatre? What do you know about genius? What do you know about anything, you... bookkeeper!
- John Barrymore (as Oscar Jaffe) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Carole Lombard
Oscar Jaffe: When I love a woman, I'm an Oriental. It never goes! It never dies!
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Phooey!
- Carole Lombard (as Lily Garland aka Mildred Plotka) in Twentieth Century (1934)

Carole Lombard
Oscar Jaffe: When I love a woman, I'm an Oriental. It never goes. It never dies.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Phooey.
Oscar Jaffe: Love blinded me. That was the trouble between us as producer and artist.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: So that's what it was, was it? How about your name in electric lights bigger than everybody's, and your delusion that you were a Shakespeare and a Napoleon and a Grand Lama of Tibet all rolled into one?
- Carole Lombard (as Lily Garland aka Mildred Plotka) in Twentieth Century (1934)

John Barrymore
Oscar Jaffe: You amoeba.
Max Jacobs: It's the truth, whether you know it or not.
Oscar Jaffe: Owen, take this creature who came to me as an office boy as Max Mendlebaum and who is now Max Jacobs for some mysterious reason and throw him into the street.
- John Barrymore (as Oscar Jaffe) in Twentieth Century (1934)

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