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Film Quotes by Nehemiah Persoff

2 quotes
Day of the Outlaw
Year: 1959

Director:
André De Toth
Blaise Starrett: I'm through being reasonable. I told Crane what would happen if he strung that wire.
Dan, Starret's Foreman: Blaise, we've pulled over some hard hills together, and I've rode behind you all the way. But a wire fence is a poor excuse to make a widow out of Crane's wife. What have you been thinking about all winter - Crane's barb wire fence, or Crane's pretty wife, Helen?
-- Nehemiah Persoff (as Dan, Starret's Foreman) in Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Some Like It Hot
Year: 1959

Director:
Billy Wilder
Little Bonaparte: [thick Italian accent] Thank you, fellow opera-lovers. It's been ten years since I elected myself president of dis organization... an' if I say so myself, you made duh right choice. Let's look at duh record: In duh lass fissel year we made a hundred an' twelve million dollars before taxes... only we ain't paying no taxes!
-- Nehemiah Persoff (as Little Bonaparte) in Some Like It Hot (1959)