My Man Godfrey (1936)

Eugene Pallette: Alexander Bullock

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Quotes 

• Alexander Bullock : All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.

• Blake : Take a look at the dizzy old gal with the goat.

  Alexander Bullock : I've had to look at her for 20 years - that's MRS. Bullock!

  Blake : I'm terribly sorry!

  Alexander Bullock : How do you think I feel?

• Alexander Bullock : I've just been going over last month's bills, and I find that you people have confused me with the Treasury Department.

  Cornelia Bullock : Oh, don't start that again, Dad.

  Alexander Bullock : I don't mind giving the government 60% of what I make. But I can't do it when my family spends 50%!

  Irene : Well, why should the government get more money than your own family?

• Alexander Bullock : Life in this family is one subpoena after another.

• Detective : [notices Carlo by the french doors]  Who's that?

  Irene : It's mother's protegé.

  Detective : No wisecracks. Is that your son?

  Alexander Bullock : That? Say, listen. I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I'll be hanged if I'll plead guilty to that!

• Molly : Mr. Bullock, there's a hansom cab driver waiting to see you in the kitchen.

  Alexander Bullock : What's he want?

  Molly : He wants $50 and his horse.

  Alexander Bullock : What horse?

  Molly : The one Miss Irene rode up the front steps last night.

  Alexander Bullock : Where is his horse? I haven't got it!

  Molly : It's in the library, where Miss Irene left it.

• Angelica Bullock : Oh, Alexander, you missed all the excitement.

  Alexander Bullock : What's going on?

  Angelica Bullock : Oh, let me see. I knew what it was I wanted to say, but somehow it slipped my mind.

  Alexander Bullock : What's the matter with Irene?

  Angelica Bullock : Oh, yes, that's it. Irene's got herself engaged!

  Alexander Bullock : To whom?

  Angelica Bullock : Oh, I don't know, Van something-or-other. I think he's the boy with his arm around that girl in pink. He's got lots of money.

  Alexander Bullock : Well, he'll need it.

• Alexander Bullock : We've got to come to an understanding right now: either Carlo is or I am.

  Angelica Bullock : Am what?

  Alexander Bullock : Well, one of us has got to and that's all there is to it.

• Angelica Bullock : What happened, what did you say to Carlo?

  Alexander Bullock : I said goodbye.

  Angelica Bullock : Did he go?

  Alexander Bullock : Yes he left very hurriedly through the side window

• Alexander Bullock : [to Carlo]  Why don't you stop imitating a gorilla and start imitating a man?

• Alexander Bullock : All you need to start an insane asylum is an empty room, and the right kind of people!

• Alexander Bullock : One day I'll go gorilla hunting and I won't miss.