What-No Beer? (1933)

Jimmy Durante: Jimmy Potts

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Quotes 

• Elmer J. Butts : Say, it's so dark here, I can't see the nose before my face.

  Jimmy Potts : I don't have that trouble.

• [repeated line] 

  Jimmy Potts : Ha-chi-cha-chi-cha!

• Elmer J. Butts : What'll I do with it?

  Jimmy Potts : Stuff it!

  Elmer J. Butts : Where?

  Jimmy Potts : All over!

• Jimmy Potts : What's the cost of a Rolls Town Car got to do with stuffin' my fish?

• Voting Registrar : What's your name.

  Jimmy Potts : Jimmy the Barber.

  Voting Registrar : What's your last name?

  Jimmy Potts : Do I have to tell you that?

  Voting Registrar : Yes!

  Jimmy Potts : Potts - and no crack!

  Voting Registrar : What - hey - what's your name?

  Elmer J. Butts : Elmer J. Butts.

• Jimmy Potts : Vote for beer! Put men to work. Put money in circulation. Don't cha want people to have somethin' in their pockets besides their hands? Don't cha?

• Jimmy Potts : It's a landslide! A title wave! A cloud burst! A juniper pa-loo-pee-ass!

• Jimmy Potts : You know, Elmer, I'd give ten dollars, right now, to be a millionaire!

  Elmer J. Butts : So would I.

• Jimmy Potts : It's incredulous!

• Jimmy Potts : Feel your way. Feel your way.

  Elmer J. Butts : Can't we make beer in the daylight?

  Jimmy Potts : We're makin' dark beer. How can you make dark beer in the daylight?

• Jimmy Potts : Ingrate! Swine! After all I've done for you.

• Jimmy Potts : Beer! Beer! Beer! What marvelous beer! How gratifyin'. How gratifyin'. Why, look at that beer! Look at that quality of it! Aw, get the feel of it. Get the feel of it!

• Jimmy Potts : We're in enough trouble already. Beer goin' to waste. What a colosial cranium!

• Jimmy Potts : Why, step right up, boys! The best beer this side of Munich!

• Jimmy Potts : What's wrong with our beer?

  Police Chemist : Nothing's wrong with it. That's the trouble. No alcohol in it.

  Jimmy Potts : Why, my partner and me, we didn't put it in on purpose. What do you think we are? Gangsters?

• Jimmy Potts : It took you a lifetime to save that ten thousand. Now you're broke. And it's all my fault.

  Elmer J. Butts : Oh, it's not your fault, Jimmy. I was just crazy to be a millionaire.

  Jimmy Potts : What for, Elmer?

  Elmer J. Butts : I was going to get married.

  Jimmy Potts : That's a tough break for the gal. Who is she?

  Elmer J. Butts : I haven't met her yet.

• Jimmy Potts : Why, he's so popular back East, that St. Louis claims he's from Milwaukee and Milwaukee claims he's from St. Louis.

• Jimmy Potts : Who's the dame?

  Elmer J. Butts : She's a native of Australia.

  Jimmy Potts : Elmer, are you in love with a kangaroo?

• Jimmy Potts : Moran's a gangster! Lorado's a gangster! You're a gangster! I'm a gangster! We're all gangsters!

  Elmer J. Butts : What? Me a gangster?

• Jimmy Potts : Listen, Elmer. We gotta beat it outta town. We'd be murdered! Massacreed! We'd be taken for a ride.

• Jimmy Potts : Can you imagine? At a time like this. Elmer's in the park - spoonin'. Why, it's enough to give a man varicose brains.

• Jimmy Potts : I got happy too soon.

• Cop : What is it? Beer or bullets?

  Jimmy Potts : I think I'll live longer on beer.

• Jimmy Potts : Friends! I won't call you ladies and gentlemen, because I know you too well for that.

• Jimmy Potts : In a gigantic struggle, my partner, Elmer Butts, brought beer back to you against exaggeratin' odds! He will go down in American posterity as performin' the greatest epicure of the age! He gives you this delicious beer garden - free of charge. And desecrates it to the future of a foamin' generation!