Film Quotes by Moe Howard
156 quotes
Year: 1940
Director:
Del Lord
Director:
Del Lord
Moe:
[Larry has accidentally poked a hole in the furnace vent] Hey, are you smokin'?
Larry: No, but the pipe is.
Moe: The pi - uh... why, you lamebrain! Ya wanna get us suffocated? Put some tape on it!
Larry: [checks his pockets] We forgot the tape!
Moe: Well, we had to forget somethin' or we wouldn't be plumbers.
Larry: No, but the pipe is.
Moe: The pi - uh... why, you lamebrain! Ya wanna get us suffocated? Put some tape on it!
Larry: [checks his pockets] We forgot the tape!
Moe: Well, we had to forget somethin' or we wouldn't be plumbers.
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Moe Howard
(as Moe)
in
A Plumbing We Will Go
(1940)
Year: 1939
Director:
Del Lord
Director:
Del Lord
Moe:
[looking through telescope toward Egyptian desert, but with Larry's head in the way] We're coming to a jungle. I can see the underbrush! And camels walkin' through it! No no, they're octopus!
Larry: I don't see anything!
Moe: [notices that he was looking at Larry's hair] You will!
[hits Larry with the telescope]
Larry: I don't see anything!
Moe: [notices that he was looking at Larry's hair] You will!
[hits Larry with the telescope]
--
Moe Howard
in
We Want Our Mummy
(1939)
Year: 1947
Director:
Edward Bernds
Director:
Edward Bernds
Moe:
[opens a top drawer, looks, then to Shemp] Say, where are the towels?
Shemp: In the bottom drawer.
Moe: [shakes his head, then opens the bottom drawer, and pulls out a towel] Ah, here we are.
[stands straight up, and puts his head through the bottom of the still open top drawer. He turns around slightly groggy and walks towards Shemp with the drawer still around him]
Larry: [to Moe, laughing] Boy, you sure look funny wearing a buster brown collar.
Moe: [handing Larry the towel] Hold that.
[Larry takes it, then Moe removes the drawer and puts it over Larry]
Moe: You do too!
Shemp: In the bottom drawer.
Moe: [shakes his head, then opens the bottom drawer, and pulls out a towel] Ah, here we are.
[stands straight up, and puts his head through the bottom of the still open top drawer. He turns around slightly groggy and walks towards Shemp with the drawer still around him]
Larry: [to Moe, laughing] Boy, you sure look funny wearing a buster brown collar.
Moe: [handing Larry the towel] Hold that.
[Larry takes it, then Moe removes the drawer and puts it over Larry]
Moe: You do too!
--
Moe Howard
in
Brideless Groom
(1947)
Year: 1948
Director:
Jules White
Director:
Jules White
Moe:
[pulling Larry's hair out in his sleep] She loves me. She loves me not. She loves me....
--
Moe Howard
in
I'm a Monkey's Uncle
(1948)
Year: 1938
Director:
Del Lord
Director:
Del Lord
Moe:
[putting a pancake on the center plate] There's that chip, I call. What do ya got?
Larry: [laying down his hand] Just four aces.
Moe: [slams his hand on the table] And me with four kings again.
Larry: [taking the pancakes] Well it must be beginner's luck.
Moe: I can't understand it, everyday you have beginner's luck.
Larry: [getting up to reach for the syrup] Well its just one of those things you know...
Moe: [grabs Larry by the hair and looks on his chair and sees a lot of aces] You want to cheat, cheat fair, anything I hate is a crookin' crook.
[Moe shakes Larry and more aces fall out of his coat]
Moe: [slaps Larry in the head and then sits down to eat the pancakes] My beginner's luck, huh, huh, huh.
Larry: [laying down his hand] Just four aces.
Moe: [slams his hand on the table] And me with four kings again.
Larry: [taking the pancakes] Well it must be beginner's luck.
Moe: I can't understand it, everyday you have beginner's luck.
Larry: [getting up to reach for the syrup] Well its just one of those things you know...
Moe: [grabs Larry by the hair and looks on his chair and sees a lot of aces] You want to cheat, cheat fair, anything I hate is a crookin' crook.
[Moe shakes Larry and more aces fall out of his coat]
Moe: [slaps Larry in the head and then sits down to eat the pancakes] My beginner's luck, huh, huh, huh.
--
Moe Howard
in
Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
(1938)
Year: 1940
Director:
Del Lord
Director:
Del Lord
Moe:
[sarcastically] Three of the best riveters who ever riveted. Why didn't you tell them you were a groundhog?
Curly: Listen, you laugh when you say that!
Moe: HA, HA, HA.
[slaps Curly]
Curly: Listen, you laugh when you say that!
Moe: HA, HA, HA.
[slaps Curly]
--
Moe Howard
(as Moe)
in
How High is Up?
(1940)
Year: 1948
Director:
Jules White
Director:
Jules White
Moe:
[Shemp's on fire] Hey Larry! He's been smoking in bed again! Get the water and the axe!
Shemp: Put me out!
Moe: [getting him out of bed] You nitwit, you brainless idiot you!
Shemp: Put me out!
Moe: [getting him out of bed] You nitwit, you brainless idiot you!
--
Moe Howard
in
Heavenly Daze
(1948)
Year: 1948
Director:
Edward Bernds
Director:
Edward Bernds
Moe:
[talking to Larry] You know, porcupine, for a guy without brains, you're a genius.
--
Moe Howard
in
Crime on Their Hands
(1948)
Year: 1956
Director:
Jules White
Director:
Jules White
Moe:
[threatening Shemp] Why, you! I'll kill you!
Larry: Wait a minute. We got work to do - kill him later.
Moe: Remind me to kill you later.
Shemp: I won't have time, later.
Moe: Then, I'll kill you now.
Larry: Wait a minute. We got work to do - kill him later.
Moe: Remind me to kill you later.
Shemp: I won't have time, later.
Moe: Then, I'll kill you now.
--
Moe Howard
in
For Crimin' Out Loud
(1956)
Moe:
[to Curly] And what did you answer when they asked what does a navigator do?
Curly: I told them a navigator crawls through a swamp until it becomes a suitcase, and bites like this too.
[Gestures his hands with the snapping motion of an alligator's jaws, with grwoling imitation]
Moe: No, like this
[Uses horizantal motion of alligator's jaws, then slaps Curly with both hands]
Curly: I told them a navigator crawls through a swamp until it becomes a suitcase, and bites like this too.
[Gestures his hands with the snapping motion of an alligator's jaws, with grwoling imitation]
Moe: No, like this
[Uses horizantal motion of alligator's jaws, then slaps Curly with both hands]
--
Moe Howard
in
Higher Than a Kite