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"It ain't no fun fightin' a girl! C'mon, le'ts go home!"
"Spider: G'wan, Tim Rooney, I don't shake hands with no cop's son!"
"William Haines - Joe Kelly"
"Abie Levy was not allowed to fight because it was a holiday."
"The "Big Kellys" - whose hardest work was selling tickets to a dance for the benefit of their bail fund."
"Up town a gang calls itself "Society" -- down town a gang calls itself a "Gang" and lets it go at that - Let's go down town!"
"To end a fight some one must quit - - but in this case both leaders happened to be Irish."
"Gordon Griffith - Tim Rooney"
"Walter James - Officer Rooney"
"You pug-nosed Mick -- I'll knock your block off for that."
"Carlo Schipa - Tony"
"Spec O'Donnell - Abie"
"Lawrence Grant as Mr. Hutchins"
"Walter Kingsford as Inspector"
"Richard Carlson as Duncan Macrae"
"Eily Malyon as Sarah"
"Billie Burke as Marmy Carleton"
"Minnie Dupree as Ellen Fortune"
"Tom Ricketts as Andrew, Miss Fortune's butler"
"Henry Stephenson as Felix Anstruther"
"Janet Gaynor as George-Anne Carleton"
"Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as Richard Carleton"
"Meet...THE CARLETON FAMILY...charming to meet...expensive to know!"
"Paulette Goddard as Leslie Saunders"
"Irvin S. Cobb as Mr. Jennings"
"I'm an old woman, Mr. Anstruther; a very old woman who has led a lonely, useless life. But I've learned some things in my loneliness; perhaps because of it. I've learned not to judge people. I've learned to take them as I find them, not as others find them. And most of all, I've learned to give complete and unquestioning faith to the people I love."
"Roland Young as Col. Anthony "Sahib" Carleton"
"Lucile Watson as Mrs. Jennings"
"Margaret Early as Adele Jennings, Richard's heiress fiancée"
"Norman Lloyd - Bodalink"
"As a man gets on in years he wants to live deeply. A feeling of sad dignity comes upon him, and that's fatal for a comic. It affected my work. I lost contact with the audience, couldn't warm up to them."
"Claire Bloom - Thereza "Terry" Embrose"
"Nigel Bruce - Postant"
"It will move you to love, laughter and tears."
"Time is the great author. Always writes the perfect ending."
"Buster Keaton - Calvero's partner"
"The masterpiece of laughter and tears from the master of comedy!"
"I'm through clowning. Life isn't a gag anymore. I can't see the joke. From now on, I'm a retired humorist."
"That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else."
"Charles Chaplin - Calvero"
"Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination... and a little dough."
"Sydney Chaplin - Ernest Neville"
"What do you want meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Desire is the theme of all life! It makes a rose want to be a rose and want to grow like that. And a rock want to contain itself and remain like that."
"There's something about working the streets I like. It's the tramp in me I suppose."
"Good morning, Mrs. Fisher. How's it hanging?"
"Julia Ormond - Joa Fischer"
"[in college cafeteria] I have never seen so many ugly men in all my life. I mean look at them, they're trying to wear their brains on the outside."
"Felicity Jones - Beth Fischer"
"Peter Vaughan - Grandpa"
"[to Jonathan] You haven't lived a bloody day since, have you? I mean what else have you achieved in the last 20 years? I've read your other work, and it sure ain't Tolstoy. Unless it's the sequel: "Bore and Cease"."