Film Quotes by Walter Matthau
70 quotes
Year: 1968
Director:
Gene Saks
Director:
Gene Saks
Oscar Madison:
Now kindly remove that spaghetti from my poker table.
[Felix laughs]
Oscar Madison: The hell's so funny?
Felix Ungar: It's not spaghetti, it's linguini.
[Oscar picks up the linguini and hurls it against the kitchen wall]
Oscar Madison: Now it's garbage.
[Felix laughs]
Oscar Madison: The hell's so funny?
Felix Ungar: It's not spaghetti, it's linguini.
[Oscar picks up the linguini and hurls it against the kitchen wall]
Oscar Madison: Now it's garbage.
--
Walter Matthau
(as Oscar Madison)
in
The Odd Couple
(1968)
Year: 1968
Director:
Gene Saks
Director:
Gene Saks
Oscar Madison:
Wait a minute, you're not going anywhere until you take it back!
Felix Ungar: Take what back?
Oscar Madison: "Let it be on your head." What the hell is that, the Curse of the Cat People?
Felix Ungar: Take what back?
Oscar Madison: "Let it be on your head." What the hell is that, the Curse of the Cat People?
--
Walter Matthau
(as Oscar Madison)
in
The Odd Couple
(1968)
Year: 1968
Director:
Gene Saks
Director:
Gene Saks
Oscar Madison:
You can't spend the rest of your life crying. It annoys people in the movies.
--
Walter Matthau
(as Oscar Madison)
in
The Odd Couple
(1968)
Year: 1967
Director:
Gene Kelly
Director:
Gene Kelly
Paul Manning:
[to wife] Well if you think I'm going to stick about here just watching you be cheerful you've got another think coming!
--
Walter Matthau
(as Paul Manning)
in
A Guide for the Married Man
(1967)
Year: 1962
Director:
David Miller
Director:
David Miller
Sheriff Morey Johnson:
[sees light flashing on police radio] Red light's flashing, Harry. You got any time for the machine?
Harry: Machine? Right.
[into radio]
Harry: Roger, Highway Patrol. CS-1 out.
Sheriff Morey Johnson: What was that signal, Harry?
Harry: Signal? Oh, just the State Highway Patrol. Just a routine check.
Sheriff Morey Johnson: Locate McNeil wherever he is and send him out for chewing gum.
Harry: McNeil? Right!
Sheriff Morey Johnson: When I tell you to watch that machine of yours, you say, "Machine? Right." When I give you a message for McNeil, you say, "McNeil? Right." There's something about the way you make a question of it and then say "right" that gets on my nerves.
Harry: Nerves?
Sheriff Morey Johnson: [sighs] Right.
Harry: Machine? Right.
[into radio]
Harry: Roger, Highway Patrol. CS-1 out.
Sheriff Morey Johnson: What was that signal, Harry?
Harry: Signal? Oh, just the State Highway Patrol. Just a routine check.
Sheriff Morey Johnson: Locate McNeil wherever he is and send him out for chewing gum.
Harry: McNeil? Right!
Sheriff Morey Johnson: When I tell you to watch that machine of yours, you say, "Machine? Right." When I give you a message for McNeil, you say, "McNeil? Right." There's something about the way you make a question of it and then say "right" that gets on my nerves.
Harry: Nerves?
Sheriff Morey Johnson: [sighs] Right.
--
Walter Matthau
(as Sheriff Morey Johnson)
in
Lonely are the Brave
(1962)
Year: 1962
Director:
David Miller
Director:
David Miller
Sheriff Morey Johnson:
You'd think we're chasing a ghost... an invisible horse and an invisible cowboy. Harry, throw me that canteen. I haven't got enough spit left to wet a stick of gum.
--
Walter Matthau
(as Sheriff Morey Johnson)
in
Lonely are the Brave
(1962)
Year: 1964
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Sir Leopold Sartori:
If I were not Hungarian, I would be speechless.
--
Walter Matthau
(as Sir Leopold Sartori)
in
Goodbye Charlie
(1964)
Year: 1964
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Sir Leopold Sartori:
Turn down the air conditioning in the bowling alley.
--
Walter Matthau
(as Sir Leopold Sartori)
in
Goodbye Charlie
(1964)
Year: 1964
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Sir Leopold Sartori:
You speak in riddles, my Sphinx.
--
Walter Matthau
(as Sir Leopold Sartori)
in
Goodbye Charlie
(1964)
Year: 1965
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Ted Caselle:
What can I do for you?
David Stillwell: To open it, you can find who I am.
Ted Caselle: Sure; you are David Stillwell. That will be... hmm, ten bucks!
David Stillwell: To open it, you can find who I am.
Ted Caselle: Sure; you are David Stillwell. That will be... hmm, ten bucks!
--
Walter Matthau
(as Ted Caselle)
in
Mirage
(1965)