Film Quotes by Akim Tamiroff
10 quotes
Year: 1944
Director:
Rowland V. Lee
Director:
Rowland V. Lee
Don Andre - The Viceroy:
You know, you should have been a justice minister for I don't know even now whether or not you're tricking me.
Uncle Pio: Have I ever tricked you except for your own good?
Uncle Pio: Have I ever tricked you except for your own good?
--
Akim Tamiroff
(as Uncle Pio)
in
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
(1944)
Year: 1943
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
Lt. Schwegler:
[checking his guidebook entry about the hotel] You have a native cook by the name of Berek.
Farid: [nervous] Terek, sir. Terek. Yes, sir. But he ran away this morning. With the British to Alexandria.
Lt. Schwegler: [checking the guidebook] You have a wife.
Farid: Oh, yes, sir. Yes. But *she* run away. Yes, sir.
Lt. Schwegler: With the British to Alexandria?
Farid: [sadly] No, sir. With a Greek to Casablanca.
Farid: [nervous] Terek, sir. Terek. Yes, sir. But he ran away this morning. With the British to Alexandria.
Lt. Schwegler: [checking the guidebook] You have a wife.
Farid: Oh, yes, sir. Yes. But *she* run away. Yes, sir.
Lt. Schwegler: With the British to Alexandria?
Farid: [sadly] No, sir. With a Greek to Casablanca.
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Akim Tamiroff
(as Farid)
in
Five Graves to Cairo
(1943)
Year: 1962
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Bishop:
Brother Giuseppe! I knew you'd be here someday.
Giuseppe: [overjoyed that the Bishop remembers him] Your Excellency.
Bishop: How are the lambs?
Giuseppe: Oh, they are sheep now, your Excellency.
Bishop: Oh yes, of course. Has it been that long? And the studies - they've been hard, eh?
Giuseppe: [sighs and nods] But mostly I miss the stables. That's where I really belong, I shouldn't be here.
Bishop: Let me be the judge of that, Giuseppe. There will be many lost sheep to care for.
Giuseppe: [overjoyed that the Bishop remembers him] Your Excellency.
Bishop: How are the lambs?
Giuseppe: Oh, they are sheep now, your Excellency.
Bishop: Oh yes, of course. Has it been that long? And the studies - they've been hard, eh?
Giuseppe: [sighs and nods] But mostly I miss the stables. That's where I really belong, I shouldn't be here.
Bishop: Let me be the judge of that, Giuseppe. There will be many lost sheep to care for.
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Akim Tamiroff
(as Bishop)
in
The Reluctant Saint
(1962)
Year: 1939
Director:
Cecil B. DeMille
Director:
Cecil B. DeMille
Fiesta:
I look around and pretty soon I marry my wife in Santa Fe. Ah, the best woodchopper in the country. You bet you my life, the best. But one day she gets bite by a rattlesnake.
Mollie Monahan: She did? Did the doctor get there in time?
Fiesta: No, she's already dead.
Mollie Monahan: Your wife?
Fiesta: My wife? No, no, the snake.
Mollie Monahan: She did? Did the doctor get there in time?
Fiesta: No, she's already dead.
Mollie Monahan: Your wife?
Fiesta: My wife? No, no, the snake.
--
Akim Tamiroff
(as Fiesta)
in
Union Pacific
(1939)
Year: 1940
Director:
Preston Sturges
Director:
Preston Sturges
The Politician:
If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics, men without ambition, jellyfish!
--
Akim Tamiroff
(as The Boss)
in
The Great McGinty
(1940)
Year: 1944
Director:
Rowland V. Lee
Director:
Rowland V. Lee
Uncle Pio:
[Tp Michaelia] I warned His Excellancy that the palace crows would peck at you but can't reach you across the footlights. You will always be safe there.
--
Akim Tamiroff
(as Uncle Pio)
in
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Rowland V. Lee
Director:
Rowland V. Lee
Uncle Pio:
One should never trust a woman.
--
Akim Tamiroff
(as Uncle Pio)
in
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Harold S. Bucquet*Jack Conway
Director:
Harold S. Bucquet*Jack Conway
Wu Lien:
Yes, yes, I read often in the winter to warm my blood, sometimes in the summer to cool it.
--
Akim Tamiroff
(as Wu Lien)
in
Dragon Seed
(1944)
Year: 1946
Director:
Douglas Sirk
Director:
Douglas Sirk
Eugéne François Vidocq:
Try to see further than the point of your knife. If I become chief of police, we'll have a chance to loot the city.
Emile Vernet: Loot a city? What does that mean?
Eugéne François Vidocq: Conservatively... fifteen million.
Emile Vernet: Fifteen...?
Eugéne François Vidocq: ...million... in gold.
Emile Vernet: Where is it?
Eugéne François Vidocq: In the vault of the Bank of Paris.
Emile Vernet: Bank of Paris? Hmmmnnnn... Such a job! No! Too big for the two of us!
Eugéne François Vidocq: Yes, but we can enlist the support of your dear family.
Emile Vernet: Yeah, family!... Yeah, but we'll have to give them a cut.
Eugéne François Vidocq: A small percentage.
Emile Vernet: Nah... no percentage! Just a cut!
Emile Vernet: Loot a city? What does that mean?
Eugéne François Vidocq: Conservatively... fifteen million.
Emile Vernet: Fifteen...?
Eugéne François Vidocq: ...million... in gold.
Emile Vernet: Where is it?
Eugéne François Vidocq: In the vault of the Bank of Paris.
Emile Vernet: Bank of Paris? Hmmmnnnn... Such a job! No! Too big for the two of us!
Eugéne François Vidocq: Yes, but we can enlist the support of your dear family.
Emile Vernet: Yeah, family!... Yeah, but we'll have to give them a cut.
Eugéne François Vidocq: A small percentage.
Emile Vernet: Nah... no percentage! Just a cut!
--
Akim Tamiroff
(as Emile Vernet)
in
A Scandal in Paris
(1946)
Year: 1965
Director:
Richard Brooks
Director:
Richard Brooks
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Akim Tamiroff
(as Schomberg)
in
Lord Jim
(1965)