Twentieth Century Quotes
Oscar Jaffe: You amoeba.
Max Jacobs: It's the truth, whether you know it or not.
Oscar Jaffe: Owen, take this creature who came to me as an office boy as Max Mendlebaum and who is now Max Jacobs for some mysterious reason and throw him into the street.
Max Jacobs: It's the truth, whether you know it or not.
Oscar Jaffe: Owen, take this creature who came to me as an office boy as Max Mendlebaum and who is now Max Jacobs for some mysterious reason and throw him into the street.
Movie: Twentieth Century
Oscar Jaffe: You amoeba.
Max Jacobs: It's the truth, whether you know it or not.
Oscar Jaffe: Owen, take this creature who came to me as an office boy as Max Mendlebaum and who is now Max Jacobs for some mysterious reason and throw him into the street.
Max Jacobs: It's the truth, whether you know it or not.
Oscar Jaffe: Owen, take this creature who came to me as an office boy as Max Mendlebaum and who is now Max Jacobs for some mysterious reason and throw him into the street.
Movie: Twentieth Century
Oscar McGonigle: Who told her that her phone was tapped?
Oscar Jaffe: [seeing Oliver Webb trying to sneak away] Stay where you are, Judas Iscariot!
Oscar Jaffe: [seeing Oliver Webb trying to sneak away] Stay where you are, Judas Iscariot!
Movie: Twentieth Century
Oscar McGonigle: Who told her that her phone was tapped?
Oscar Jaffe: [seeing Oliver Webb trying to sneak away] Stay where you are, Judas Iscariot!
Oscar Jaffe: [seeing Oliver Webb trying to sneak away] Stay where you are, Judas Iscariot!
Movie: Twentieth Century
Owen O'Malley: He wants the pulsing life story of this Lily Garland trumpeted through the press by tomorrow morning. Where is the little baggage?
Movie: Twentieth Century
Owen O'Malley: He's going to end up in the breadline unless he finds out that these jittery horse operas with a lot of people staggering around in foul iron suits ain't entertainment.
Oliver Webb: Where did you leave Jaffe?
Owen O'Malley: At the Morrison Hotel under the name of Hemingway, which he's adopted in his grief.
Oliver Webb: Where did you leave Jaffe?
Owen O'Malley: At the Morrison Hotel under the name of Hemingway, which he's adopted in his grief.
Movie: Twentieth Century
Owen O'Malley: Sadie, get me a bottle of gin. I've only got an hour to live.
Sadie, Lily's maid: I wish that were true.
Sadie, Lily's maid: I wish that were true.
Movie: Twentieth Century
Owen O'Malley: Sadie, get me a bottle of gin. I've only got an hour to live.
Sadie, Lily's maid: I wish that were true.
Sadie, Lily's maid: I wish that were true.
Movie: Twentieth Century
Owen O'Malley: What are you talking about? That's not a contract - it's a coronation. Barrels of rubies, enormous carpets for your pretty feet, pearl and onyx bathrubs, slews of myrmidons at your beck and call... Come on, sign it now while the sap is flowing.
Movie: Twentieth Century
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Why do they keep hammering at me? Hammering and hammering...
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Yes, I tried to save you pain. I lied, yes, only to save you.
Oscar Jaffe: That's from "Sappho"!
Oscar Jaffe: That's from "Sappho"!
Movie: Twentieth Century
Oliver Webb: Hello, Myrtle, put the wizard on the wire. He's in the sanctum.
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Oliver Webb: O.J., suppose - just hypothetically, of course - that you, Mr. Bromo, could get together again with Miss Seltzer.
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Oscar Jaffe: Get out of my theatre, you gray rat! And don't have that fat wife of yours come around again, pleading for you!
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Oscar Jaffe: I close...
Oliver Webb: Yeah, yeah, I know - you close the iron door on me!
Oliver Webb: Yeah, yeah, I know - you close the iron door on me!
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Oscar Jaffe: No cooperation from anybody. Never mind. I'll carry through alone.
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Oscar Jaffe: Now, before we begin I want you all to remember one thing. No matter what I may say... no matter what I may do on this stage during our work... I love you all.
Movie: Twentieth Century
Oscar Jaffe: What do you know about talent? What do you know about the theatre? What do you know about genius? What do you know about anything, you... bookkeeper!
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Oscar Jaffe: When I love a woman, I'm an Oriental. It never goes. It never dies.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Phooey.
Oscar Jaffe: Love blinded me. That was the trouble between us as producer and artist.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: So that's what it was, was it? How about your name in electric lights bigger than everybody's, and your delusion that you were a Shakespeare and a Napoleon and a Grand Lama of Tibet all rolled into one?
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Phooey.
Oscar Jaffe: Love blinded me. That was the trouble between us as producer and artist.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: So that's what it was, was it? How about your name in electric lights bigger than everybody's, and your delusion that you were a Shakespeare and a Napoleon and a Grand Lama of Tibet all rolled into one?
Movie: Twentieth Century
Oscar Jaffe: You squalling litle amateur. On your feet! Get up! Take that hump out of your back. You're not demonstrating underwear anymore!
Movie: Twentieth Century
Oliver Webb: Hello, Myrtle, put the wizard on the wire. He's in the sanctum.
Movie: Twentieth Century
Owen O'Malley: He wants the pulsing life story of this Lily Garland trumpeted through the press by tomorrow morning. Where is the little baggage?
Movie: Twentieth Century
Oscar Jaffe: [lamenting Lily's departure, after trashing her lobby posters] ... O tempora, o mores!
Movie: Twentieth Century