Morocco Quotes

Jeff Peters: Turkey, from now on you are sacred, you just became a full-blooded American idiot.

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[after an Arab gives Jeff a pile of money]

Turkey Jackson: How'd you get the spinach, old boy?

Jeff Peters: Funny thing, a guy I've never seen before in my life gives me 2,500 Kolacs... . that's 200 federal diplomas, are you listening?

Turkey Jackson: 200 skins? Why, what for?

Jeff Peters: I sold him something.

Turkey Jackson: Well you've got nothing to sell! We've already hocked your pivot tooth.

Jeff Peters: It wasn't much, but it was all I had, and was he anxious to get it!

Turkey Jackson: What did you sell him?

Jeff Peters: Look, uh, Orville, I want you to keep very calm now. Don't get excited.

Turkey Jackson: [grabbing Jeff, nervous] What did you sell him?

Jeff Peters: You.

Turkey Jackson: Oh, well, for a minute I - HUH? Me? Wait a minute, get that guy and give him those fish back! What's the matter with you, you can't sell me, I'm not a horse! It's just the way I comb my hair!

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[seeing the desert for the first time]

Turkey Jackson: This must be the place where they empty all the old hourglasses.

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Amy Jolly: [Bessiere has presented her with a very expensive-looking piece of jewelry] I can't accept this. It's worth a fortune.

La Bessiere: Anything of less value would be unworthy of you.

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Bamboule: Knowing the captain, I'd look for him in some nice, cool room with a sultry lady.

Orderly: There are so many sultry ladies in Tesket.

Bamboule: Uh huh. Interesting problem, isn't it?

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Colonel Pascal: Your record is an excellent one, except for certain, uh, shall we say, uh, romantic, uh, complications.

Capt. Paul Gerard: My duties have taken me into many strange places.

Colonel Pascal: So I noticed.

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Hyder Khan: Do you know him?
[pointing at Crosby]

Turkey Jackson: Well I used to but I kinda outgrew him, I don't dally with riff-raff these days and he's a pretty riffy kind of raff.

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Jeff Peters: First chance we get, we better dash for the nearest exit.

Turkey Jackson: Yeah, but how about that guy's knife? We're gonna look silly stumbling outta here on a set of stumps.

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Jeff Peters: Orville, where are you?

Turkey Jackson: Right over here, behind these goosebumps.

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Jeff Peters: Turkey, from now on you're sacred.

Turkey Jackson: What do you mean, sacred?

Jeff Peters: You just became a full-blooded American idiot.

Turkey Jackson: No, you do it! Who's gonna believe *I'm* an idiot?

Jeff Peters: Will you look at the head start you got?

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Jeff Peters: We must storm the place.

Turkey Jackson: You storm. I'll stay here and drizzle.

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Jeff Peters: We must storm the place.

Turkey Jackson: You storm. I'll stay here and drizzle.

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La Bessiere: Good evening, officer.

Ship's Deck Officer: Good evening.

La Bessiere: [Referring to Amy Jolly] Do you know who that woman is?

Ship's Deck Officer: [Indifferently] A vaudeville actress, probably.

La Bessiere: Uh, just, uh, how do you know that?

Ship's Deck Officer: Oh, we carry them every day. We call them 'suicide passengers.' One way ticket. They never return.

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La Bessiere: Mademoiselle, may I have the honor of your company after the performance?

La Bessiere: I am sorry, I have disposed of the balance of the evening.

La Bessiere: Some other time, perhaps?

Amy Jolly: [Coyly] Of course.

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Lieut. Glysko: As my late father would say, all women are unfair.

Capt. Paul Gerard: If they weren't, there'd be no Foreign Legion.

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Lieut. Glysko: As my late father would say, all women are unfair.

Capt. Paul Gerard: If they weren't, there'd be no Foreign Legion.

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Mabel - Lady Camel: Sometimes, when I see how silly people behave, I'm glad I'm a camel.

Male Camel: [his eyes rolling suggestively] Aww... . I'm glad you're a camel too, Mabel.

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Madame Caesar: Tom, I must see you tonight.

Tom Brown: See me tonight? What if your husband sees you tonight?

Madame Caesar: He isn't going to see me...

Tom Brown: Isn't he? What if he does?

Madame Caesar: [Coyly, quoting a classic line from the time of Julius Caesar] Caesar's wife is above suspicion.

Tom Brown: Yeah? You may know something about ancient history, but I know something about husbands.
[Gives her a little salute and walks off]

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Tom Brown: [Visiting Amy Jolly's apartment] You've made this place look pretty nice. It looks different now.

Amy Jolly: [Suddenly suspicious ] How do you know? Have you... been here before?

Tom Brown: [Coyly] Well... I've been stationed in this town for a long time...

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Tom Brown: I've told women about everything a man can say. I'm going to tell you something I've never told a woman before: I wish I'd met you ten years ago.

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Tom Brown: There's a hundred ways of dyin', brother, and I'm pickin' my own way.

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Tom Brown: Two weeks pay is a lot of money for an apple.

Amy Jolly: You can have it for nothing, if you like.

Tom Brown: Nothing doing. I always pay for what *I* get.
[Accompanying soldiers applaud]

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Tom Brown: What in the name of 10,000 corporals did you come to a country like this for anyways?

Amy Jolly: I understand that men are never asked why they entered the Foreign Legion...

Tom Brown: That's right. They never asked me and if they had I wouldn't have told. When I crashed the Legion, I ditched the past.

Amy Jolly: There's a foreign legion of women, too. But we have no uniforms, no flags, and no medals when *we* are brave; no wound stripes when *we* are hurt.

Tom Brown: Look here, is there anything I can do to help you?

Amy Jolly: No. I've thought that before. Or, do you think you can restore my faith in men?

Tom Brown: Not me. You got the wrong man for that! Anybody who has faith in me is a sucker.

Amy Jolly: You better go now... I am beginning to like you.

Tom Brown: I've told women about everything a man can say. I'm going to tell you something I've never told a woman before: I wish I'd met you ten years ago.

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Turkey Jackson: A fine thing. First, you sell me for two hundred bucks. Then I'm gonna marry the Princess; then you cut in on me. Then we're carried off by a desert sheik. Now, we're gonna have our heads chopped off.

Jeff Peters: I know all that.

Turkey Jackson: Yeah, but the people who came in the middle of the picture don't.

Jeff Peters: You mean they missed my song?

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Turkey Jackson: Aunt Lucy. I can see her now, lying on her dying bed, looking at you with those big, trusting eyes. 'Before I go, Jeff, promise me one thing,' she said. 'Promise me you'll always be a friend to little Orville,' she said. 'No matter what happens, you'll never leave the little jerk,' she said. 'Promise me, Jeff, promise me,' she said.

Jeff Peters: Yeah, then she up and died before I had the chance to say no.

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Turkey Jackson: Aunt Lucy. I can see her now, lying on her dying bed, looking at you with those big, trusting eyes. 'Before I go, Jeff, promise me one thing,' she said. 'Promise me you'll always be a friend to little Orville,' she said. 'No matter what happens, you'll never leave the little jerk,' she said. 'Promise me, Jeff, promise me,' she said.

Jeff Peters: Yeah, then she up and died before I had the chance to say no.

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Turkey Jackson: How do you figure on paying for all this?

Jeff Peters: What are you, scared? You got red blood, ain't you?

Turkey Jackson: Yeah, but I don't want to get it all over strangers.

Jeff Peters: Go ahead, eat up, eat up son. I'll think of something.

Turkey Jackson: These guys don't monkey around, they got knives, they're liable to try and get the food back the hard way.

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Turkey Jackson: How do you figure on paying for this?

Jeff Peters: You've got red blood, ain't you?

Turkey Jackson: Yeah, but I don't want to get it all over a stranger.

Jeff Peters: Go ahead, eat up son.

Turkey Jackson: Those guys don't monkey around, they've got knives, they're liable to try and get the food back the hard way.

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Turkey Jackson: We're going to get married on... . uh... . when is the big day, Dream Thing?

Princess Shalmar: When the moon, in its last quarter, silvers the blossoms of the almond tree. That's Tuesday night, about nine.

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Turkey Jackson: You can't sell me, you don't own me.

Jeff Peters: Not now - he does
[pointing at Arabs]

Jeff Peters: .

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