Film Quotes by William Powell
67 quotes
Year: 1932
Director:
William Dieterle
Director:
William Dieterle
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels:
I'm curious to know how you were led astray.
Robber: Well, I began life as a little boy--
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: I'm glad to hear that you kept to the same sex.
Robber: Yes. It's a family tradition.
Robber: Well, I began life as a little boy--
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: I'm glad to hear that you kept to the same sex.
Robber: Yes. It's a family tradition.
--
William Powell
(as The Robber)
in
Jewel Robbery
(1932)
Year: 1932
Director:
William Dieterle
Director:
William Dieterle
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels:
Oh, they're too heavenly! This necklace--where did you get it?
Robber: At a charity ball.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: What courage!
Robber: No, merely nimble fingers. The lady stood beside me. The Prince of Wales was announced. I could have removed her dress.
Robber: At a charity ball.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: What courage!
Robber: No, merely nimble fingers. The lady stood beside me. The Prince of Wales was announced. I could have removed her dress.
--
William Powell
(as The Robber)
in
Jewel Robbery
(1932)
Year: 1936
Director:
Robert Z. Leonard
Director:
Robert Z. Leonard
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.:
[after he has hired Jack Billings' valet away from him] Gentlemen never argue about gentlemen's gentlemen.
--
William Powell
(as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.)
in
The Great Ziegfeld
(1936)
Year: 1932
Director:
William Dieterle
Director:
William Dieterle
Robber:
As a matter of fact, I'm opposed to the American school of banditry. I studied in Paris. You have to work harder but you do acquire a certain finesse that is missing from the stick-em-up and shoot-them-down school.
--
William Powell
(as The Robber)
in
Jewel Robbery
(1932)
Year: 1936
Director:
Robert Z. Leonard
Director:
Robert Z. Leonard
Sampson:
This is about talent.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Something good and cheap no doubt?
Sampson: Exactly! It's a young girl named Brice... Fanny... Fanny Brice. She;s working in burlesque.
Gene Buck: Say, I've seen that girl, Flo!
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Pretty?
Gene Buck: Well, yes and no. Shut your eyes and listen - yes! Open 'em and look - no, but a great performer!
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: We shall have a look at her at once - tonight!
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Something good and cheap no doubt?
Sampson: Exactly! It's a young girl named Brice... Fanny... Fanny Brice. She;s working in burlesque.
Gene Buck: Say, I've seen that girl, Flo!
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Pretty?
Gene Buck: Well, yes and no. Shut your eyes and listen - yes! Open 'em and look - no, but a great performer!
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: We shall have a look at her at once - tonight!
--
William Powell
(as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.)
in
The Great Ziegfeld
(1936)
Year: 1936
Director:
Robert Z. Leonard
Director:
Robert Z. Leonard
Hotel doorman:
Do you realize you gave me five pounds?
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Yes, I'm trying to lose weight.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Yes, I'm trying to lose weight.
--
William Powell
(as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.)
in
The Great Ziegfeld
(1936)
Year: 1934
Director:
W.S. Van Dyke
Director:
W.S. Van Dyke
Nora Charles:
Nicky... Nicky, put Asta in here with me tonight.
Nick Charles: [chuckles] Oh, yeah?
[throws Asta in the other bunk]
Nick Charles: [chuckles] Oh, yeah?
[throws Asta in the other bunk]
--
William Powell
(as Nick Charles)
in
The Thin Man
(1934)