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Film Quotes by Ernest Thesiger

17 quotes
The Old Dark House
Year: 1932

Director:
James Whale
The Old Dark House
Horace Femm: It's only gin, you know. Only gin. I like gin.
-- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)
The Old Dark House
Year: 1932

Director:
James Whale
The Old Dark House
Horace Femm: The fact is, Morgan is an uncivilized brute. Sometimes he drinks heavily. A night like this will set him going and once he's drunk he's rather dangerous.
-- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)
The Old Dark House
Year: 1932

Director:
James Whale
The Old Dark House
Horace Femm: We make our own electric light here, and we are not very good at it. Pray, don't be alarmed if they go out altogether
-- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)
Man with a Million
Year: 1953
Man with a Million
Mr. Reid: Now what about a cycling suit, Mr. Adams ? Cycling is all the rage nowadays. And then of course there is Ascot.
Henry Adams: I'm not gonna do any cycling and I'm not gonna do any Ascotting. Sailing is my hobby.
Mr. Reid: Ah ! The sport of kings. Very right and proper for a personage such as yourself.
Henry Adams: I thought racing was the sport of kings ?
Mr. Reid: [unperturbed] Then it ought to be sailing !
[to his assistant]
Mr. Reid: Nip in the waist a bit.
-- Ernest Thesiger in Man with a Million (1953)
The Man in the White Suit
Year: 1951

Director:
Alexander Mackendrick
The Man in the White Suit
Sir John Kierlaw: Now. Some fool has invented an indestructible cloth. Where is he? How much does he want?
-- Ernest Thesiger (as Sir John Kierlaw) in The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The Ghoul
Year: 1933

Director:
T. Hayes Hunter
The Ghoul
Broughton: I advise you to be very careful, Laing.
Laing: I've a careful nature.
Broughton: You may be putting yourself perilously near dishonesty.
Laing: I've seen men nearer.
-- Ernest Thesiger (as Laing) in The Ghoul (1933)
The Old Dark House
Year: 1932

Director:
James Whale
The Old Dark House
[repeated line]
Horace Femm: Have a potato.
-- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)