Casanova's Big Night (1954)

Bob Hope: Pippo Popolino

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Quotes 

• [frequently repeated phrase] 

  Pippo Popolino : Farffel farffel pippick.

• [the Doge formally toasts Casanova] 

  Lucio : [Whispering warningly so that others at the table don't here]  Don't toast YOURSELF!

  Pippo Popolino : The wine's free and I'm thirsty!

  Lucio : [Whispering in his ear again]  Mind your manners!

  Pippo Popolino : Oh, please stop nibbling on my ear. Don't let this beauty mark fool you, too.

• Francesca Bruni : Well, then take your mask off.

  Pippo Popolino : Oh, no. I couldn't do that. I haven't got anything on underneath it.

• Francesca Bruni : Your lips are fire.

  Pippo Popolino : I know. Saves a fortune on matches. Don't turn in the alarm.

• Pippo Popolino : Don't be frightened, Francesca. I'm scared enough for all of us.

• Lucio : [introducing Francesca on the fly]  This is... his, um... um, his first cousin.

  Pippo Popolino : First by a mile!

• Pippo Popolino : [as Francesca seduces him into playing Casanova with a kiss]  It's just like I always suspected: girls are softer than fellas. If this is the way they live in Venice, let's hurry! We can still catch the 7:15 gondola!

• Elena Di Gambetta : [Hearing her family trying to get in to save her honor]  Run! Hide!

  Pippo Popolino : Casanova never runs, but he hides!

• Pippo Popolino : This is Lucio, my food taster.

  Foressi : Your food taster?

  Pippo Popolino : Yes. You can't get good food tasters these days. The slightest hint of poison and they quit!

  Francesca Bruni : [after laughter]  Lucio is my cousin's ninth food taster.

  Pippo Popolino : Tenth, counting Mother.

• Pippo Popolino : [to Maggioni]  Oh, please, spare my miserable life! I'll work off the debt! I'll make more wine for you. I've got big feet! What grapes I can't trample on I can sit on!

• Pippo Popolino : What's Casanova got that, if I had, I probably couldn't handle anyway?

• Casanova : Pippo, I need your horse. He isn't much but he's better then running down the road on foot.

  Pippo Popolino : Run?

  Casanova : Shh!

  Pippo Popolino : But why should My Lord run? Everybody's waiting in the kitchen to get paid.

  Casanova : Exactly why, my friend. I haven't a ducat.

  Pippo Popolino : Casanova penniless? Oh, but you owe them a fortune. They'll be bankrupt.

  Casanova : I know. It's very sad. The whole time I am running, there will be tears in my eyes.

• Raphael, Duc of Castelbello : [finding it difficult to believe Pippo is Casanova]  Uh, you were described to us as, uh, regal, handsome, intelligent, virile, uh...

  Pippo Popolino : That's good enough for mixed company, but then, after all, none of us look too good in the morning, especially after a night out - and what a night I had out.

• Maria : Casanova, in person?

  Pippo Popolino : In person, in love, and in a hurry. Kiss me!

  [Pippo embraces Maria fiercely] 

  Maria : Oh, sir, you're too impetuous.

  Pippo Popolino : I have to work fast. Venice is a big city. I'm getting to the age where I can only work a couple of canals a day.

  Maria : But there should always be some polite conversation first.

  Pippo Popolino : Well, if you insist on formalities - "Delightful weather we're having." Conversation over. Kiss me!

• Pippo Popolino : I have been a great lover for over twenty years, man and boy. The boy's worn out, but the man...? Hm! Ask any woman in Italy.

• Pippo Popolino : Oh, now, let's make a deal. I won't kill any of you if you don't kill any of me.

• Bragadin : Signor Casanova, you do Venice a great honor by your visit.

  Pippo Popolino : Oh, it's nothing. I like to spread it around.

• Pippo Popolino : Oh, you look so pretty. I can't think of anybody I'd rather have my throat cut with.

• Pippo Popolino : Hiding behind a woman's skirts, huh?

  Stefano Di Gambetta : That's what YOU'RE doing!

  Pippo Popolino : I knew it was ONE of us.

• Pippo Popolino : Oh, and by the way, leave your name and address with my valet. If I can't call you, maybe he will. He's skinny but fun.

• Pippo Popolino : Women are like oranges. You've squeezed one, you've squeezed them all.

• Pippo Popolino : What time is it?

  Prisoner : About seventeen-fifty-eight.

• Francesca Bruni : You only have one life.

  Pippo Popolino : If you work it right, one is enough.

• Pippo Popolino : I can't let her down. I'd never be able to look another needle in the eye.

• [last lines] 

  Pippo Popolino : [Bob Hope as himself]  What's the matter with this theater? Don't they sell popcorn?