Film Quotes by William Demarest
28 quotes
Year: 1936
Director:
H. Bruce Humberstone
Director:
H. Bruce Humberstone
Charlie Chan:
Case still wide open like swinging gate.
Sergeant Kelly: Watta yuh mean?
Charlie Chan: Gravelle not murderer.
Inspector Regan: Not Gravelle?
Charlie Chan: Excuse please, will demonstrate hypothesis.
Sergeant Kelly: What?
Charlie Chan: Word of Greek origin, hypo meaning...
Sergeant Kelly: [interrupting] Hypo! I get it! He's hittin' the pipe again!
Sergeant Kelly: Watta yuh mean?
Charlie Chan: Gravelle not murderer.
Inspector Regan: Not Gravelle?
Charlie Chan: Excuse please, will demonstrate hypothesis.
Sergeant Kelly: What?
Charlie Chan: Word of Greek origin, hypo meaning...
Sergeant Kelly: [interrupting] Hypo! I get it! He's hittin' the pipe again!
--
William Demarest
(as Sergeant Kelly)
in
Charlie Chan at the Opera
(1936)
Year: 1944
Director:
Preston Sturges
Director:
Preston Sturges
Constable Kockenlocker:
[to his 14-year-old daughter, gruffly but jokingly] Listen, Zipper-puss! Some day they're just gonna find your hair ribbon and an axe someplace. Nothing else! The Mystery of Morgan's Creek!
--
William Demarest
(as Constable Edmund Kockenlocker)
in
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Preston Sturges
Director:
Preston Sturges
Constable Kockenlocker:
Daughters. Phooey.
--
William Demarest
(as Constable Edmund Kockenlocker)
in
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Preston Sturges
Director:
Preston Sturges
Constable Kockenlocker:
The trouble with kids is they always figure they're smarter than their parents - never stop to think if their old man could get by for 50 years and feed 'em and clothe 'em - he maybe had something up here to get by with - things that seem like brain twisters to you might be very simple for him.
--
William Demarest
(as Constable Edmund Kockenlocker)
in
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
(1944)
Year: 1943
Director:
Leigh Jason
Director:
Leigh Jason
Detective Gatling:
[unable to answer the quiz show question, "Who invented the machine gun?"] I know that as well as I know my own name!
--
William Demarest
in
Dangerous Blondes
(1943)
Year: 1944
Director:
Preston Sturges
Director:
Preston Sturges
Eben Frost:
It was the night of September 30th. I was in excruciating pain.
--
William Demarest
(as Eben Frost)
in
The Great Moment
(1944)
Year: 1936
Director:
W.S. Van Dyke
Director:
W.S. Van Dyke
Editor Lees Berger:
Will Old World sophistication win over New World virility?
--
William Demarest
in
Love on the Run
(1936)
Year: 1941
Director:
Sam Wood
Director:
Sam Wood
First Policeman:
When they start recitin' the Constitution, watch out!
--
William Demarest
(as First Detective)
in
The Devil and Miss Jones
(1941)
Year: 1945
Director:
Stuart Heisler
Director:
Stuart Heisler
George Fury:
Get your dumb thumb out of my eye!
Melody Jones: I was just trying to see if you was dead.
George Fury: Well, I ain't! And I don't like someone trying to gouge my eye out.
Melody Jones: I was just trying to see if you was dead.
George Fury: Well, I ain't! And I don't like someone trying to gouge my eye out.
--
William Demarest
(as George Fury)
in
Along Came Jones
(1945)
Year: 1945
Director:
Stuart Heisler
Director:
Stuart Heisler
George Fury:
Look Melody, you couldn't hit the hind end of your horse with a handful of buckshot and you know it. And you ain't a gunfighter, that's all. You ain't even a good shot. You're just a plain no good bronc stomper that's been hit in the seat of the pants so many times....
--
William Demarest
(as George Fury)
in
Along Came Jones
(1945)