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Year: 1941

Director:
Garson Kanin

Tom, Dick and Harry

Janie: Where's your car?
Harry: Why, do you mind walking?
Janie: [laughs] I'd love to.
Harry: Good, I like to walk.
[Breathes deeply]
Janie: I guess, if you don't have to, you want to, hunh?
Harry: Well, even if you don't want to, you may have to, so... might as well want to.
Janie: [laughs] I guesss if you don't want to, and you don't have to, you just don't if you don't want to.
Harry: Yeah, well, you can always take a taxi!

-- Burgess Meredith in Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)

Year: 1939

Director:
Lewis Milestone

Of Mice and Men

Lennie: I wish we had some ketchup.
George: Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want!

-- Burgess Meredith (as George) in Of Mice and Men (1939)

Year: 1940

Director:
H.C. Potter

Second Chorus

Danny O'Neill: [hiding himself] What'ya think you're doing under this bed?
Hank Taylor: Looking for a collar button.

-- Burgess Meredith in Second Chorus (1940)

Year: 1937

Director:
Joseph Santley

There Goes the Groom

Dick Matthews: For three years, I've been wondering how you'd look... and *you do!*

-- Burgess Meredith in There Goes the Groom (1937)

Year: 1939

Director:
Lewis Milestone

Of Mice and Men

George Milton: It's lonesome for a guy to be without a dog.

-- Burgess Meredith (as George) in Of Mice and Men (1939)

Year: 1940

Director:
H.C. Potter

Second Chorus

Hank Taylor: I'll buy you a cigar.
J. Lester Chisholm: I don't like cigars.
Hank Taylor: Don't you worry about it! I'll smoke it myself.

-- Burgess Meredith in Second Chorus (1940)

Year: 1939

Director:
Clarence Brown

Idiot's Delight

Quillary: While you sit here eating and drinking, their planes dropped fifty thousand kilos of bombs on innocent people. Heavens knows how many were killed; how much of life and beauty is forever destroyed. And you sit here eating and drinking with them, the murderers. It was their planes from the very field down there. Assassins!

-- Burgess Meredith (as Quillary) in Idiot's Delight (1939)

Year: 1966

Director:
Fielder Cook

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Harry Tate: [referring to Tropp] Don't he give a damn what people think, him ridin' around the country in a hearse?
Doc Joseph Scully: If you're the richest undertaker in Texas, you're entitled to a fancy rig, but if you spend your days and nights trying to keep people alive, you ride around in the likes of this.
[he shakes the reins of his carriage]
Doc Joseph Scully: Giddy-up!

-- Burgess Meredith (as Doc Scully) in A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)

Year: 1945

Director:
William A. Wellman

The Story of G.I. Joe

[Final Line]
Ernie Pyle: (Voice-over): For those beneath the wooden crosses, there is nothing we can do, except perhaps to pause and murmur, "Thanks pal, thanks."

-- Burgess Meredith (as Ernie Pyle Scripps) in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

Year: 1967

Director:
Otto Preminger

Hurry Sundown

[The bigoted Judge Purcell rebukes a white lawyer for his help to the black defendant]
Judge Purcell: Don't you rattle your skeleton in my court! Your being here at all constitutes a treachery to the entire white community that's too colossal to be believed!

-- Burgess Meredith (as Judge Purcell) in Hurry Sundown (1967)

Film Quotes by Burgess Meredith