Monkey Business Quotes

Groucho: If this is the Captain, I'm gonna have a few words with him. My hot water's been cold for three days. And I haven't got room enough in here to swing a cat. In fact, I haven't even got a cat.

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Groucho: If you look at it, it's a barn. If you smell it, it's a stable.

Chico: Well, let's just look at it.

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Groucho: If you look at it, it's a barn. If you smell it, it's a stable.

Chico: Well, let's just look at it.

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Groucho: Mrs. Briggs, I've known and respected your husband Alky for many years. And what's good enough for him is good enough for me.
[He suddenly grabs her and pulls her down onto a couch]

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Groucho: Nice old piece of melodrama, kidnapping a girl. You've been reading too many dime novels.

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Groucho: Oh, engineer? Will you tell them to stop the boat from rocking, I'm going to have lunch.

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Groucho: Oh, engineer? Will you tell them to stop the boat from rocking, I'm going to have lunch.

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Groucho: Oh, I know it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me. I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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Groucho: Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean... flee to my lodge in the hills.

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Groucho: With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now.

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Groucho: You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar.

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Groucho: You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar.

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Groucho: You're just wasting your breath, and that's no great loss either.

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Lois Laurel: Hi Dr Fulton.

Barnaby: Hi.

Mrs. Edwina Fulton: What did you say to her?

Lois Laurel: Mrs Fulton. He said hi.

Mrs. Edwina Fulton: I heard what he said, you peroxide kissing bug!

Barnaby: Edwina, she hasn't done anything.

Mrs. Edwina Fulton: I'll pull that blonde hair out by its black roots!

Barnaby: Edwina! Now come along. Miss Laurel, you keep out of the way.

Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Put 'em up! Put 'em up! Put 'em up!

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Lucille: [talking to Groucho in the closet] What are you doing in there?

Groucho: Nothing. Come on in.
[Groucho does his famous eyebrow wiggle]

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Lucille: I wanna sing. I wanna dance. I wanna ha-cha-ha.

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Lucille: I wanna sing. I wanna dance. I wanna ha-cha-ha.

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Mrs. Edwina Fulton: By the way, whose lipstick is it?

Barnaby: Oh, uh, what's her names? Oxley's secretary.

Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Oh, you mean that little pin up girl? Very cute.

Barnaby: Sort of. But half infant.

Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Not the half that's visible.

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Barnaby: At 11: 52 this morning I took a dose of the formula,and in a few minutes, I began to behave like a college boy with 20/20 vision and no bursitis.

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Barnaby: All set. Is you motor running?

Lois Laurel: Is yours?

Barnaby: Takes while to warm up.

Lois Laurel: Does, me too.

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Captain Corcoran: I want you to know that I've been Captain of this ship for 22 years.

Groucho: 22 years, eh? If you were a man, you'd go in business for yourself. I know a fellow started only last year with just a canoe. Now he's got more women than you could shake a stick at, if that's your idea of a good time.

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Captain Corcoran: I want you to know that I've been Captain of this ship for 22 years.

Groucho: 22 years, eh? If you were a man, you'd go in business for yourself. I know a fellow started only last year with just a canoe. Now he's got more women than you could shake a stick at, if that's your idea of a good time.

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Groucho: Oh, I know it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me. I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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Groucho: I'll thank you to let me do the reporting around here. Is it true you're getting a divorce as soon as your husband recovers his eyesight? Is it true you wash your hair in clam broth? Is it true you used to dance in a flea circus?

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Groucho: Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars? AFRAID? You bet I'm afraid!

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Groucho: I'll thank you to let me do the reporting around here. Is it true you're getting a divorce as soon as your husband recovers his eyesight? Is it true you wash your hair in clam broth? Is it true you used to dance in a flea circus?

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Groucho: With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now.

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Groucho: If this is the Captain, I'm gonna have a few words with him. My hot water's been cold for three days. And I haven't got room enough in here to swing a cat. In fact, I haven't even got a cat.

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Lois Laurel: Mr. Oxley's been complaining about my punctuation, so I'm careful to get here before nine.

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Lucille: You can't stay in that closet.

Groucho: [emerging behind her] Oh, I can't, can I? That's what they said to Thomas Edison, mighty inventor; Thomas Lindbergh, mighty flier; and Tomashevsky, mighty like a rose. Just remember, my little cabbage, that if there weren't any closets, there wouldn't be any hooks, and if there weren't any hooks, there wouldn't be any fish, and that would suit me fine.

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