Film Quotes by Jimmy Durante
21 quotes
Year: 1942
Director:
William Keighley
Director:
William Keighley
Banjo:
Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go, and still have the feeling that you wanted to stay?
--
Jimmy Durante
(as Banjo)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Year: 1950
Director:
Charles Barton
Director:
Charles Barton
Breezy Albright:
Something's happened to me. I can't getcha outta my mind.
Ginger Burton: Well, calm down, I'm only a woman.
Breezy Albright: Yet regardless of that fact, I still feel drawn to ya.
Ginger Burton: Well, calm down, I'm only a woman.
Breezy Albright: Yet regardless of that fact, I still feel drawn to ya.
--
Jimmy Durante
in
The Milkman
(1950)
Year: 1940
Director:
Joseph Santley
Director:
Joseph Santley
Cornelius J. Courtney:
Folks, this is your pal, Cornelius J. Courtney, tellin' you that this program is brought to you by that nationally famous head cold remedy "Nose Posse." Aaahh! Manufactured, endorsed by that benefactor of humanity, Thomas Summerville. Ah, that most delicate of organisms, the nose, the snoozle, the proboscus, let Nose Posse guard it for you. It deserves that protection - take it from me, a man who knows his noses. At-chaaa! And now, after a brief pause for station identification, Gene Autry will present this week's thrilling drama of the sagebrush, "The Sagebrush."
--
Jimmy Durante
(as Cornelius J. Courtney)
in
Melody Ranch
(1940)
Year: 1940
Director:
Joseph Santley
Director:
Joseph Santley
Cornelius J. Courtney:
Hey, Gene. Listen, I've been thinking it over, and I think maybe I ought to go with the others on the bus.
Gene Autry: Oh no you don't. Get up on that horse and shut up.
Cornelius J. Courtney: But, Gene...
Gene Autry: Remember, this was your idea.
Cornelius J. Courtney: I'd forgotten.
Gene Autry: Oh no you don't. Get up on that horse and shut up.
Cornelius J. Courtney: But, Gene...
Gene Autry: Remember, this was your idea.
Cornelius J. Courtney: I'd forgotten.
--
Jimmy Durante
(as Cornelius J. Courtney)
in
Melody Ranch
(1940)
Year: 1938
Director:
Irving Cummings
Director:
Irving Cummings
Jimmy Clayton:
What is it, Pop?
William J. 'Pop' Shea: It's for Betsy. Perhaps you could come back tomorrow morning?
Detective: Sorry, old man, I don't like this any more than you do, but I got to take her back tonight.
Jimmy Clayton: But you can't take Betsy back to the orphan asylum! Know why? 'Cause Betsy ain't here! She's down south in dear old Dixie.
Flossie: Sure, visiting with my folks.
Jimmy Clayton: Oh, I wish I was in Dixie! Away, away!
Detective: Hey, are you crazy?
Jimmy Clayton: Yeah! Uh, no! You see, we don't want to lose Betsy. That's why I lied to you. She's up in her room.
William J. 'Pop' Shea: It's for Betsy. Perhaps you could come back tomorrow morning?
Detective: Sorry, old man, I don't like this any more than you do, but I got to take her back tonight.
Jimmy Clayton: But you can't take Betsy back to the orphan asylum! Know why? 'Cause Betsy ain't here! She's down south in dear old Dixie.
Flossie: Sure, visiting with my folks.
Jimmy Clayton: Oh, I wish I was in Dixie! Away, away!
Detective: Hey, are you crazy?
Jimmy Clayton: Yeah! Uh, no! You see, we don't want to lose Betsy. That's why I lied to you. She's up in her room.
--
Jimmy Durante
in
Little Miss Broadway
(1938)
Year: 1938
Director:
Irving Cummings
Director:
Irving Cummings
Jimmy Clayton:
You call this hospitality? I'll take it up with Emily Post!
--
Jimmy Durante
in
Little Miss Broadway
(1938)
Year: 1947
Director:
Richard Whorf
Director:
Richard Whorf
Nick Lombardi:
A girl is what you should get first. Then if you don't get anything else, you've still got her.
--
Jimmy Durante
(as Nick Lombardi)
in
It Happened in Brooklyn
(1947)
Year: 1947
Director:
Richard Whorf
Director:
Richard Whorf
Nick Lombardi:
She likes you. She thinks you're stupefying.
--
Jimmy Durante
(as Nick Lombardi)
in
It Happened in Brooklyn
(1947)
Year: 1933
Director:
Jack Conway
Director:
Jack Conway
Ptomaine:
[looking at a plus-sized Italian girl on a boat] What big eyes you have, Grandma!
--
Jimmy Durante
in
Hell Below
(1933)
Year: 1944
Director:
Richard Thorpe
Director:
Richard Thorpe
[after hitting a high note in the song, "Inka Dinka Doo"]
Billy Kipp: That note was given to me by Bing Crosby, and was he glad to get rid of it.
Billy Kipp: That note was given to me by Bing Crosby, and was he glad to get rid of it.
--
Jimmy Durante
in
Two Girls and a Sailor
(1944)