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Film Quotes by Moe Howard

156 quotes
[first lines]
Larry: [exiting cocktail lounge] How do you like that? No beer! You know, this is the sixteenth place we've been in?
Moe: Yeah, there ain't a bottle of beer in town.
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
Year: 1963

Director:
Norman Maurer
[Guards are roughing up Curly-Joe]
Moe: Wait a minute. You're gonna hit a man with glasses?
Curly-Joe: [gratefully, as guards pause] Yeah!
Moe: [takes away glasses] Go ahead!
Snow White and the Three Stooges
Year: 1961

Director:
Walter Lang*Frank Tashlin
[hawking an all-purpose "medicine" called Yuk]
Moe: Become the envy of your friends. Surprise your wife. You, lady, grow a beard and surprise your husband!
Punch Drunks
Year: 1934

Director:
Lou Breslow
[KO Stradivarius tries to leave the boxing ring but gets caught in the ropes]
KO Stradivarius: Time out! Time out!
Moe: I suppose you'll want the afternoon off.
-- Moe Howard (as Moe) in Punch Drunks (1934)
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
Year: 1963

Director:
Norman Maurer
[Larry comes in with a waterlogged newspaper and hands it to Moe]
Larry: They left it in the swimming pool today.
Moe: Oh, I see. The tadpole edition.
Larry: Yeah, the tadpole edi...
[Moe whaps Larry with the paper]
Moe: That's for now. Remind me to kill you later.
A Missed Fortune
Year: 1952

Director:
Jules White
[Larry uses boiling water to unglue Moe's mouth]
Moe: What are you trying to do, boil me? You think I'm a lobster?
[eye-pokes Larry]
Larry: Oh, wait a minute.
Moe: Unguard your eyes!
[Larry blocks a second eye poke, then laughs]
Larry: I fooled him.
Moe: Well, you certainly did. Pardon me.
Larry: Yes?
[Moe eye pokes Larry again]
Moe: Get away from here!
[making a mock broadcast]
Moe: Use Gritto, radio friends, the soap that gives your hands that dishpan look. How will the old man know you've been working... if your hands -don't- have that dishpan look, hmm?
[chuckles]
Moe: Put a box of Gritto in a glass of water, then listen to it fizz...
[Larry and Curly honk a large horn. Moe is irked]
Moe: Dopes. Remember, Gritto spelled sideways, is 'ot-tri-gruh-guh-guhhh'.
Three Little Beers
Year: 1935

Director:
Del Lord
[Moe is inadvertently cutting divots in the ground while trying to hit his golf ball]
Third Gardener: What are you doin'? What are you-? Chop-a, chop-a, chop-a. What are you doing? You gotta a shovel here.
Moe: Aw, quiet now, will ya? I'm getting better, see? The pieces are getting smaller.
Sing a Song of Six Pants
Year: 1947

Director:
Jules White
[Moe starts to read a letter addressed to them]
Moe: "Gentlemen..."
Shemp: That ain't for us. We're not gentlemen.
Moe: Speak for yourself.
[knocks Shemp in the nose]
Tricky Dicks
Year: 1953

Director:
Jules White
[Repeated line]
Sgt. Moe: I have to do everything around here!