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Film Quotes by Lou Costello

108 quotes
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Year: 1949

Director:
Charles Barton
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Freddie Phillips: It's a booby trap.
Casey Edwards: For what?
Freddie Phillips: For boobs.
-- Lou Costello (as Freddie Phillips) in Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Lost in a Harem
Year: 1944

Director:
Charles Reisner
Lost in a Harem
Harvey Garvey: Do I have to especially go now?
Peter Johnson: You just split an infinitive!
Harvey Garvey: Well, I mean that...
[feeling his own rear end]
Harvey Garvey: Does it show?
-- Lou Costello (as Harvey Garvey) in Lost in a Harem (1944)
Lost in a Harem
Year: 1944

Director:
Charles Reisner
Lost in a Harem
Harvey Garvey: Have you a reservation here?
Jailer and clerk: No.
Harvey Garvey: Then I have to take my business someplace else.
[he starts to leave but is restrained by guards]
Harvey Garvey: I changed my mind. I'll take the room.
Jailer and clerk: What's your name?
Harvey Garvey: Harvey D. Garvey.
Jailer and clerk: Where born?
Harvey Garvey: Under a sink.
Jailer and clerk: How do you know?
Harvey Garvey: I heard the water runnin'.
-- Lou Costello (as Harvey Garvey) in Lost in a Harem (1944)
Buck Privates Come Home
Year: 1947

Director:
Charles Barton
Buck Privates Come Home
Herbie Brown: [explaining their situation with Evie] We've been like a mama and a papa to her.
Slicker Smith: Leave me out of this.
Herbie Brown: Okay, Papa.
-- Lou Costello (as Herbie Brown) in Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
The Time of Their Lives
Year: 1946

Director:
Charles Barton
The Time of Their Lives
Horatio Prim: [after seeing Emily for the first time] Zounds! What well did she come out of?
-- Lou Costello (as Horatio Prim) in The Time of Their Lives (1946)
The Time of Their Lives
Year: 1946

Director:
Charles Barton
The Time of Their Lives
Horatio Prim: [he and Melody collide and are wearing each other's clothes] Odds bodkins, we're all mixed up!
[they run into each other again and get back into their own clothes]
Horatio Prim: Melody, don't ever do that again, I'm a boy!
-- Lou Costello (as Horatio Prim) in The Time of Their Lives (1946)
The Time of Their Lives
Year: 1946

Director:
Charles Barton
The Time of Their Lives
Horatio Prim: [Horatio and Nora are laying in the hay, Nora kisses him, he gasps and stutters] Nora!
Nora O'Leary: Oh Horatio, do my kisses thrill you that much?
Horatio Prim: I'm sitting on a pitchfork!
-- Lou Costello (as Horatio Prim) in The Time of Their Lives (1946)
The Time of Their Lives
Year: 1946

Director:
Charles Barton
The Time of Their Lives
Horatio Prim: Cuthbert, Melody, it's Cuthbert! He's still alive!
Melody Allen: How can that be?
Horatio Prim: I don't know, they say only the good die young.
-- Lou Costello (as Horatio Prim) in The Time of Their Lives (1946)
The Time of Their Lives
Year: 1946

Director:
Charles Barton
The Time of Their Lives
Horatio Prim: I don't want those people coming around here saying,
[singing]
Horatio Prim: Here lie the dirty traitors! Here lie the dirty traitors!
[crying]
Horatio Prim: Here lie the dirty traitors.
-- Lou Costello (as Horatio Prim) in The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Jack and the Beanstalk
Year: 1952

Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack: [singing] I fear nothing when I am in the right / Whoever pushes me around will find me full of fight.
-- Lou Costello (as Jack / Jack Strong) in Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)