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Film Quotes by Stan Laurel

45 quotes
Pack Up Your Troubles
Year: 1932

Director:
George Marshall*Ray McCarey*Harry Black*Lloyd French
Oliver: Why didn't you tell me it was you?
Stan: It was so dark, I didn't think you would hear me.
Pardon Us
Year: 1931

Director:
James Parrott
Prison Guard: [placing the boys in solitary confinement] This is your suite.
Stanley: Have you got the time?
[Stan is shoved inside the hole and the door is locked]
Stanley: Ollie?
Oliver: What?
Stanley: I wonder how long we're going to be in here.
Oliver: Oh, about two months I guess.
Stanley: Gee, that's a month apiece.
Another Fine Mess
Year: 1930

Director:
James Parrott
Lord Leopold Plumtree: By the way, Colonel, do you have any horses?
Ollie: [posing as Colonel Buckshot] I'm sorry... I shipped all of my horses to my plantation in Kentucky.
Lord Leopold Plumtree: Kentucky? What part of Kentucky do you come from, Colonel?
Ollie: [fondly and grandly] Omaha... dear old Omaha!
Stan: I thought Omaha was in Wisconsin.
-- Stan Laurel (as Stan) in Another Fine Mess (1930)
The Dancing Masters
Year: 1943

Director:
Malcolm St. Clair
Stan Laurel: [taking a book out of the bookcase] "Boswell's Life of Johnson." Gee, I bet that's interesting.
Oliver Hardy: Yeah, I remember that Jess Willard knocked him out. It sure was a hot day!
Stan Laurel: Gee, I'll have to read that.
The Dancing Masters
Year: 1943

Director:
Malcolm St. Clair
Stan Laurel: I don't mind starvin' again.
Oliver Hardy: It's all right with me.
Stan Laurel: You know you can't keep an egg in two baskets. That's silly... unless you want to scramble them. I wouldn't be that stupid, you know. I knew a fella once that he had some money in the bank, and he wouldn't draw it out. And, you know what? He lost his job, and still he wouldn't draw it out. Then he starved to death - that killed him. And then he died, and after he was dead. A friend of his got all his money, and he drewed it out of the bank. and I could live happily ever after. Yes, sir!
The Dancing Masters
Year: 1943

Director:
Malcolm St. Clair
Stan Laurel: The harder they fall, the bigger I am!
Brats
Year: 1930

Director:
James Parrott
Stan Sr.: Remember the old adage: You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
-- Stan Laurel in Brats (1930)
Another Fine Mess
Year: 1930

Director:
James Parrott
Stan: [as Agnes the Maid] Bedrooms, let's see, there's mine and the master's and the master's and mine. That's four.
Lady Plumtree: No no, there's the master's then yours. That's two.
Stan: Oh, yeah. Then there's the nursery.
Lady Plumtree: A nursery? I didn't know the colonel was married.
Stan: Oh, he has that in case of accidents.
-- Stan Laurel (as Stan) in Another Fine Mess (1930)
The Chimp
Year: 1932

Director:
James Parrott
Stan: [Hiding from escaped lion] I've just seen MGM!
Block-Heads
Year: 1938

Director:
John G. Blystone
Stan: [to 901 guy] There's going to be a fight.
Stan: [to bypassers] There's going to be a fight.
Stan: [to guy going into apartment] Hey, there's going to be a fight.
Stan: [to desk guy] You better call an ambulance. It's going to be terrible. There's going to be a fight.
-- Stan Laurel (as Stan) in Block-Heads (1938)