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Film Quotes by Roscoe Karns

16 quotes
Twentieth Century
Year: 1934

Director:
Howard Hawks
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Is Oscar Jaffe on this train? You'd better tell me.
Owen O'Malley: Right in there. The Little Corporal is returning from another Moscow, his head bloodied but still unbowed.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)
Today We Live
Year: 1933

Director:
Howard Hawks*Richard Rosson
Bogard: [Concerned about McGinnis' drinking] You better start drinking water.
McGinnis: Water? Water? Have you forgotten the Johnstown Flood? The poor women! The children!
Twentieth Century
Year: 1934

Director:
Howard Hawks
Oscar Jaffe: Owen, something tells me you're not educated enough for this sort of thing. I'll have to hire some professor.
Owen O'Malley: Save your dough, sire. I yield the lamp of learning to no one.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Owen O'Malley) in Twentieth Century (1934)
Front Page Woman
Year: 1935

Director:
Michael Curtiz
[Devlin demands to see a possible witness]
Desk Clerk: She died seven months ago.
Curt Devlin: Ah, the perfect alibi.
Toots O'Grady: We don't want to see her then.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Toots O'Grady) in Front Page Woman (1935)
It Happened One Night
Year: 1934

Director:
Frank Capra
Shapeley: Now, you're just my type. Believe me, sister, I could go for you in a big way. 'Fun-on-the-side' Shapeley they call me, with accent on the fun, believe you me.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Shapeley) in It Happened One Night (1934)
It Happened One Night
Year: 1934

Director:
Frank Capra
Shapeley: You know, there's nothing I like better than to meet a high-class mama that can snap 'em back at ya. 'Cause the colder they are, the hotter they get. That's what I always say. Yes, sir, when a cold mama gets hot, boy, how she sizzles.
-- Roscoe Karns (as Shapeley) in It Happened One Night (1934)