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Film Quotes by Walter Matthau

70 quotes
Hello Dolly!
Year: 1969
Horace: Advice is cheap, Ms. Molloy. It's the things that come gift wrapped that count!
-- Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly! (1969)
Hello Dolly!
Year: 1969
Horace: Any man who goes to a big city deserves what happens to him.
-- Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly! (1969)
Hello Dolly!
Year: 1969
Horace: Eighty percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in danger of contamination.
-- Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly! (1969)
Hello Dolly!
Year: 1969
Horace: I'm going to march in the 14th street parade with the only kind of people I can trust: 700 men.
-- Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly! (1969)
Hello Dolly!
Year: 1969
Horace: It takes a woman all powdered and pink to joyously clean out the drain in the sink!
-- Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly! (1969)
Hello Dolly!
Year: 1969
Horace: Mrs. Malloy, I shan't bother you again. And I hope vice versa.
-- Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly! (1969)
A Face in the Crowd
Year: 1957

Director:
Elia Kazan
Mel Miller: [commenting on one of Lonesome Rhodes' on-air tirades after the two have had a falling out] I'll say one thing for him, he's got the courage of his ignorance.
-- Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A Face in the Crowd
Year: 1957

Director:
Elia Kazan
Mel Miller: [of TV] You gotta be a saint to stand all the power that little box can give you.
-- Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A Face in the Crowd
Year: 1957

Director:
Elia Kazan
Mel Miller: [of writers] Here you see the lepers of the great television industry. Men without faces. Why, they even slide our paychecks under the door so they can pretend we're not here.
-- Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A Face in the Crowd
Year: 1957

Director:
Elia Kazan
Mel Miller: Didn't you know? All mild men are vicious. They hate themselves for being mild, and they hate the windy extroverts whose violence seems to have a strange attraction for nice girls. You should know better.
-- Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd (1957)