The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (TV Series)

Live Alone and Like It (1960)

Frank Faylen: Herbert T. Gillis

Photos 

Quotes 

• Dobie Gillis : There's no freedom in this house. I'm treated like a child.

  Herbert T. Gillis : [reading the paper, ignoring Dobie]  Hey, y'know that Daddy Warbucks, he had a haircut like that years before Yul Brynner.

  Dobie Gillis : I must be given more independence. The little bird learns to test its wings by being pushed from the nest. I ask for the same right.

  Herbert T. Gillis : If nobody pushes you, promise me one thing - you'll jump!

  Winifred Gillis : Herbert! That's no way to talk to Dobie. You know how sensitive he is. There, there, Darling, everything will be all...

  Dobie Gillis : Stop that, Mom. Dontcha see, you're treatin' me like a child, too. I don't want ya to take care of things for me. I don't want ya to protect me.

  Herbert T. Gillis : One more interruption, and you will need all the protection you can get.

  Dobie Gillis : I will reject it. I prefer to stand on my own two feet.

  Herbert T. Gillis : Well, while you are on your own two feet, how about putting a broom in your own two hands and doing a little work around here, just as a change of pace.

  Dobie Gillis : Awwwh, what's the use. In China, they used to tie ropes around the little girls' feet, so the feet wouldn't grow. You're doin' the same thing to my mind. Keepin' it small, undeveloped and puny.

  Herbert T. Gillis : So that's what happened to it, huh?

• Dobie Gillis : I am not being allowed to grow up.

  Herbert T. Gillis : Big deal.

  Winifred Gillis : Herbert, Dobie is right. Parents are always trying to treat their children like infants, because thay, themselves are trying to hang on to their own youth.

  Herbert T. Gillis : Hogwash.

  Winifred Gillis : It is not. It is a proven, scientific fact, proven by

  [she pauses to think] 

  Winifred Gillis : ... scientific scientists.

  Herbert T. Gillis : I bet you got that out of one of them lame-brained, women's magazines of yours.

  Winifred Gillis : They are excellent magazines.

  Herbert T. Gillis : To wrap fish-heads in.

  Dobie Gillis : Listen, I need to test my wits and strength against the slings and arrows of the world in which I live.

  Herbert T. Gillis : Hogwash. Pure, grade-A Hog-Wash.

  Winifred Gillis : Herbert! Now go on, Dear, tell us, how can we help you solve your problem?

  Dobie Gillis : It's simple. Just let me move away from home.

  Winifred Gillis : Herbert, are you going to sit there and listen to that pure, grade-A hogwash?

  Herbert T. Gillis : Now hold on, just a...

  Winifred Gillis : But Dobie, darling, you're only a baby.

  Dobie Gillis : I'm seventeen and a half.

  Winifred Gillis : Well, an old baby, and they're the worst kind.

  Dobie Gillis : Mother, you're chokin' me with a silver cord.

  Herbert T. Gillis : Yeah. Why dontcha try whoppin' him with one of them scientific magazine articles?

  Winifred Gillis : Well, that article was about other people's children.