Whoopee! (1930)

Eddie Cantor: Henry Williams

Quotes 

• Mary Custer : Oh, poor Henry. Let me hold your hand.

  Henry Williams : It's not heavy. I can manage. Hold your own hand.

• Henry Williams : [to Mary]  Why do you make overtures to me when I need intermissions so badly?

• Sally Morgan : But they'll give you twenty years.

  Henry Williams : Twenty ye - ha ha ha ha ha ha...

  Sally Morgan : What are you laughing at?

  Henry Williams : Why, the joke's on them.

  Sally Morgan : Why?

  Henry Williams : I can't live but six months.

• Mary Custer : [referring to the calf Henry just lead into the room]  Henry Williams, what is that?

  Henry Williams : Condensed milk.

• Jerome Underwood : You know who I am?

  Henry Williams : Who?

  Jerome Underwood : I'm an Underwood.

  Henry Williams : Indian no care for typewriter!

• [last lines] 

  Henry Williams : That's all there is!

• Sally Morgan : I wish I were dead.

  Henry Williams : Don't say that!

  Sally Morgan : I wish I'd never been born.

  Henry Williams : You could have said that first and save yourself a wish, you know that, don't you?