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Film Quotes by Willie Best

10 quotes
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Year: 1939

Director:
Norman Foster
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Archibald Featherstone: I'll stay here and reconnoiter.
Driver: Don't get hurt doin' it.
Archibald Featherstone: You go and fetch the bobbies.
Driver: Yeah, I'll get the police too!
-- Willie Best (as Driver) in Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)
The Ghost Breakers
Year: 1940

Director:
George Marshall
The Ghost Breakers
Alex: A lot of folks don't like you, boss. I expect some of these mornings when I come to get you outta the bed, I'll have to pull the sheet up instead of down.
-- Willie Best (as Alex) in The Ghost Breakers (1940)
The Ghost Breakers
Year: 1940

Director:
George Marshall
The Ghost Breakers
Alex: Hey, boss, you ain't goin' upstairs, are ya? Where those ghosts is?
Larry Lawrence: Listen, you stay there, and if a couple a fellas come runnin' down the stairs in a few minutes, let the first one go. That'll be me.
Alex: If somebody passes you, that'll be me.
-- Willie Best (as Alex) in The Ghost Breakers (1940)
The Ghost Breakers
Year: 1940

Director:
George Marshall
The Ghost Breakers
Alex: I just love talking to luggage. I used to be a porter.
-- Willie Best (as Alex) in The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Dangerous Money
Year: 1946

Director:
Terry O. Morse
Dangerous Money
Chattanooga Brown: I'm tellin' yuh, he's as guilty as a weasel in a hen house.
Jimmy Chan: Well, Pop'll grab him if he is.
Chattanooga Brown: Well, he's gotta bankroll that would choke a water buffalo.
Jimmy Chan: [Chuckles] Why not a mule?
Chattanooga Brown: Ain't no mules where he come from.
Jimmy Chan: He come from...?
Chattanooga Brown: He one of them shoemaker men.
Jimmy Chan: A what?
Chattanooga Brown: On the islans, you know!
Chattanooga Brown: Oh, you mean Jamaica.
-- Willie Best in Dangerous Money (1946)
The Littlest Rebel
Year: 1935

Director:
David Butler
The Littlest Rebel
James Henry: Ain't you a speck afraid, Miss Virgie?
Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: No, I'm not! What are you afraid of them for?
James Henry: Oh, Miss Virgie, them Yankees is mighty powerful. They can even change the weather.
Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Really?
James Henry: Whenever they come around, I don't know whether it's winter or summer. I start shivering and sweating at the same time.
-- Willie Best in The Littlest Rebel (1935)
The Ghost Breakers
Year: 1940

Director:
George Marshall
The Ghost Breakers
Larry Lawrence: If that's Raspy Kelly, I owe him some money.
Alex: Well, from the tone of his infections, you better pay him.
-- Willie Best (as Alex) in The Ghost Breakers (1940)
The Ghost Breakers
Year: 1940

Director:
George Marshall
The Ghost Breakers
Larry Lawrence: Must have been a frog in my throat.
Alex: It's better than havin' a knife in it.
-- Willie Best (as Alex) in The Ghost Breakers (1940)
The Nitwits
Year: 1935

Director:
George Stevens
The Nitwits
Newton: What kind of snuff you want? The left-handed or the right-handed kind?
Sleepy: I want the sniffin' kind.
-- Willie Best (as Sleepy) in The Nitwits (1935)
The Monster Walks
Year: 1932

Director:
Frank R. Strayer
The Monster Walks
[upon being informed that he'll sleep in the basement next to the ape's cage]
Exodus: Get me an umbrella and I'll sleep on the roof!
-- Willie Best in The Monster Walks (1932)