Great Performances (TV Series)
You Can't Take It with You (1984)
Jason Robards: Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
Quotes
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Anthony P. Kirby : I'm not accustomed to going out to dinner and spending the night in jail.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : Well you have to remember you came on the wrong night. Now tonight I'll bet you nothing will happen... maybe.
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Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : Alice, you're in love with this boy and you're not marrying him because we are the way we are.
Alice Sycamore : Oh Grandpa.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : I know, you think it wouldn't work out, you think the two families wouldn't get along, well maybe they wouldn't, but whose to say they're right and we're wrong?
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Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : Well sir, you should've been there, that's all I can say, you should've been there.
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Penny Sycamore : Don't the graduates get to say anything, Grandpa?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : Oh no, they just sit there in their cap and nightgown, have a diploma handed to them and along 40 years from now suddenly say 'where am I?'
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Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : Have you been acting long?
Gay Wellington : All my life, I've played everything. Ever see 'Peg O' My Heart'?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : Yes!
Gay Wellington : I saw it too, good show.
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Penny Sycamore : [Gay Wellington is passed out drunk] Do you think she'll be alright, Grandpa?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : Yes but I wouldn't cast her in the religious play.
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Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : Penny, if I were you, the next time I met an actress on the top of a bus, I think I'd MAIL them the play instead of bringing them home to read it.
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Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : [to Mr. Kirby] Oh, that's just the Grand Duchess Olga Katrina. She's cooking the dinner.
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Grand Duchess Olga Katrina : [to Grandpa] Before I make the blintzes, how many will there be for dinner?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : Well, I'd make quite a stack, your Highness, you can never tell.
Grand Duchess Olga Katrina : [smiles] Good! The Czar, he always said to me, "Olga... do not be stingy with the blintzes!"
