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"What warrior would not want to be lord of a mighty castle?"
"Chieko Naniwa - Witch"
"Without ambition, man is not man."
"Akira Kubo - Yoshiteru Miki"
"[glances up from his drink and suddenly pales as he sees the ghost of Miki] There he is again! If you hate me, why not draw your sword? [He charges, swiping again and again with his sword]"
"Yōichi Tachikawa - Kunimaru Tsuzuki"
"If you would shed blood, then let it run as a river."
"If you would make a mountain of the dead, pile it so it reaches the sky."
"If you choose ambition, lord, then choose it honestly, with cruelty."
"Takashi Shimura - Noriyasu Odagura"
"I did not stain my hands with blood to forward Yoshiteru, Miki's son."
"Cowards! I see it now! You'll slay me and offer my head when you surrender!"
"Takamaru Sasaki - Lord Kuniharu Tsuzuki"
"Admirable, my Lord. You, who would soon rule the world, allow a ghost to frighten you."
"Minoru Chiaki - Yoshiaki Miki"
"Kokuten Kōdō - First General"
"Washizu samurai: I have fought in many battles and have seen blood, yet this stain horrifies me. Because this is the blood of a dog, the blood of a despised traitor. He was a coward too. Cried for mercy after his revolt was over."
"Toshiro Mifune - Taketoki Washizu"
"Listen, even the crow is saying: The throne is yours."
"You humans! Never will I comprehend you. You are afraid of your desires - you try to hide them."
"Washizu soldier: A message from Lady Asaji! "If arrows cannot open the gates, then a corpse will.""
"Isuzu Yamada - Lady Asaji Washizu"
"[singing] Men are vain and death is long, And pride dies first within the grave, For hair and nails are growing still, When face and fame are gone, Nothing in this world will save, Or measure up man's actions here, Nor in the next - for there is none, This life must end in fear, Only evil may maintain, An afterlife for those who will, Who love this world - who have no son, To whom ambition calls, Even so - this false fame falls, Death will reign - man dies in vain."
"June Foray as Witch Hazel (uncredited)"
"Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny / Sam Krubish"
"[last lines] To be, or not to be. That is the question!"
"[to Witch Hazel] Eh, what's up, Zsa Zsa?"
"Joan Hickson — Mrs. Sprout"
"Diana Dors — Maisie Psaltery"
"Renée Asherson — Mrs. Maxwell"
"Milo O'Shea — Inspector Boot"
"Dennis Price — Hector Snipe"
"Eric Sykes — Sgt. Dogge"
"Madeline Smith — Rosemary"
"Coral Browne — Chloe Moon"
"Robert Morley — Meredith Merridew"
"Jack Hawkins — Solomon Psaltery"
"So my performance of Richard III cast such a spell upon the audience that it put this reviewer into a "deep sleep from which he awoke much refreshed and relieved by the knowledge that he had been spared the ordeal of attending to the aging matinee idol's ranting and posturing." Well, we shall see if we cannot spur you to more rapt attention with today's performance. "Dive, thoughts, down to my soul. Here Clarence comes.""
"You begin to resent an actor if you always have to give him bad notices."
"Look, Devlin, when two people have the same motive to murder and one of them is still alive, who would you arrest?"
"Michael Hordern — George Maxwell"
"Arthur Lowe — Horace Sprout"
"Ian Hendry — Peregrine Devlin"
"Diana Rigg — Edwina Lionheart"
"Vincent Price has reserved a seat for you in the "theatre of blood.""
"It's curtains for his critics!"
"He gave his critics a bloody and violent taste of their own medicine!"
"[examining a note on a gift box] "I am sorry to miss the meeting, but my heart is with you. Dickman." [he opens it and it contains Dickman's bloody heart] It's him, all right. Only Lionheart would have the temerity to rewrite Shakespeare!"
"Now, let us see what that stupid cretin Mr. Meredith Merridew had to say about my Titus Andronicus. [reads] "Mr. Lionheart's rendering of the role can only be described as villainous. Laid between the delicately underplayed performances of Miss Lillywhite as Lavinia and Miss Mole as Tamora, one is irresistibly reminded of a ham sandwich." [pause] My reputation."
"Vincent Price — Edward Lionheart"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.