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Film Quotes by Roscoe Karns

16 quotes
Twentieth Century
Year: 1934

Director:
Howard Hawks
Oliver Webb: I don't know whether you realize it or not, Owen, but I've always had a terrific influence with her.
Owen O'Malley: Me too. Once I actually compelled her to admit it looked like rain.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)
You and Me
Year: 1938

Director:
Fritz Lang
Cuffy: Funny. Last Christmas I was on the inside lookin' out and thinkin' I'd go bats if I couldn't get outside. And now I'm out... I don't know. Come to think of it, it was kinda cozy in that little cell.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Cuffy) in You and Me (1938)
Today We Live
Year: 1933

Director:
Howard Hawks*Richard Rosson
McGinnis: [Seeing German planes] Here they come! They look like mosquitos in September!
Twentieth Century
Year: 1934

Director:
Howard Hawks
Owen O'Malley: [referring to a policeman] This demigod thinks he's in darkest Russia.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)
Twentieth Century
Year: 1934

Director:
Howard Hawks
Owen O'Malley: He wants the pulsing life story of this Lily Garland trumpeted through the press by tomorrow morning. Where is the little baggage?
-- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)
Twentieth Century
Year: 1934

Director:
Howard Hawks
Owen O'Malley: He's going to end up in the breadline unless he finds out that these jittery horse operas with a lot of people staggering around in foul iron suits ain't entertainment.
Oliver Webb: Where did you leave Jaffe?
Owen O'Malley: At the Morrison Hotel under the name of Hemingway, which he's adopted in his grief.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)
Twentieth Century
Year: 1934

Director:
Howard Hawks
Owen O'Malley: O.J., I'm in no mood for a lot of fuzzy lamentations.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)
Twentieth Century
Year: 1934

Director:
Howard Hawks
Owen O'Malley: What are you talking about? That's not a contract - it's a coronation. Barrels of rubies, enormous carpets for your pretty feet, pearl and onyx bathrubs, slews of myrmidons at your beck and call... Come on, sign it now while the sap is flowing.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)
Woman of the Year
Year: 1942

Director:
George Stevens
Phil Whittaker: Women should be kept illiterate and clean, like canaries.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Phil Whittaker) in Woman of the Year (1942)
Saturday's Children
Year: 1940

Director:
Vincent Sherman
Willie Sands: Two can live as cheap as one... if one don't eat!