The Princess and the Pirate (1944)

Bob Hope: Sylvester

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Quotes 

• Princess Margaret : I hear there are pirates in these waters.

  Sylvester : Yeah? Well, let them stay in the water, they're dangerous on ships!

• Sylvester : My act is known all over Europe; that's why I'm going to America.

• Princess Margaret : Why don't you die like a man?

  Sylvester : Because I'd rather live like a woman!

• Sylvester : I work my brains out for nine reels, and some bit player from Paramount comes over and steals my girl. That's the last picture I'll ever make for Goldwyn!

• Sylvester : If you don't tell anybody I'm not a gypsy, I won't tell anybody you're not an idiot.

• Featherhead : You can't miss him. He looks just like me. He's twice as smart as I am.

  Sylvester : Oh, a half-wit, huh?

• Sylvester : I'll chop off his liver! Say, that might be pretty good, chopped liver.

• Owner of the 'Bucket of Blood' : You sound like a stranger. You haven't lived very long in this town, huh?

  Sylvester : Does anybody?

• Sylvester : Look at them building that gallows out there. They're not going to use that noose to rope a moose. That's slumber lumber.

• Sylvester : How do you like that? The king. Hi, your honor. How's the queen and all the little Jacks? I'm a card, ha, ha!

• Sylvester : [During written description of blood-thirsty LaRoche, Sylvester pops up as bubble]  That's not me folks, I come on later, I play a coward.

• Sylvester : Wait a minute. Why are you in such a sweat to get rid of it now?

  Featherhead : 'Cause I'm smarter than you are, and I'm only an idiot.