It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963 quotes, page 2

26 quotes · 10 characters
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) poster
Characters
Melville Crump Sid Caesar · 7 quotes
Mrs. Marcus Ethel Merman · 7 quotes
Russell Milton Berle · 7 quotes
Benjamin Buddy Hackett · 5 quotes
Col. Hawthorne Terry-Thomas · 5 quotes
Sylvester Dick Shawn · 5 quotes
Culpeper 3 quotes
Otto Meyer Phil Silvers · 3 quotes

Most scenes together: Dingy Bell & Benjamin (5), Melville Crump & Dingy Bell (4), Russell & Lennie Pike (4)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World quotes

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I don't know, I must find my wife. I don't know what to do.

Look, wherever they are, surely the most sensible thing for the two of us to do is to press on. I mean for all we know, your brother-in-law may be out or away somewhere. And even if he were the first to be there, he still has to find the money, hasn't he? Now I earnestly recommend that we forget your good ladies and press on with all possible dispatch.

[mockingly]

All right, we'll press on with all possible dispatch.

And I don't really think that personal rancor is going to help the situation. If I may say so.

You want me to tell you something? As far as I'm concerned, the whole British race is practically finished. If it hadn't been for lend-lease. If we hadn't have kept your whole country afloat by giving you billions that you never even said "thank you" for, the whole phony outfit would be sunk right under the Atlantic years ago. [Hawthorne screeches to a stop] What are you stopping for?

Get out of this machine.

Get out? You can't...

It's my machine, I will do as I bloody well, please. Out!

I'm awfully sorry. I've been very edgy today and if I said anything about England, I apologize.

Glad to hear you say so. [drives again] I must say, if I had the grievous misfortune to be a citizen of this benighted country, I should be the most hesitant at offering any criticism whatever of any other.

Wait a minute, are you knocking this country? Are you saying something against America?

Against it? I should be positively astounded to hear of anything that could be said FOR it. Why, the whole bloody place is the most unspeakable matriarchy in the whole history of civilization! Look at yourself, and the way your wife and her strumpet of a mother push you through the hoop! As far as I can see, American men have been totally emasculated. They're like slaves! They die like flies from coronary thrombosis, while their women sit under hairdryers, eating chocolates and arranging for every second Tuesday to be some sort of Mother's Day! And this positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms. In all my time in this wretched, godforsaken country, the one thing that has appalled me most of all is this preposterous preoccupation with bosoms. Don't you realize they have become the dominant theme in American culture: in literature, advertising and all fields of entertainment and everything. I'll wager you anything you like: if American women stopped wearing brassieres, your whole national economy would collapse overnight.

Let's stop arguing please! The only reason were together is because they only had one car. So lets get there, even if we are last.

Whatever the outcome of the day I shall never forget that you hit me when I wasn't even looking!

[smiling]

Yeah.

Smiler Grogan
[while dying]

Look, there's this dough see. There's all this dough. Three hundred and fifty g's! Do you hear what I'm saying? Three hundred and fifty g's! In the park. Rosita. Rosita Beach State Park. Just south of Daygo in Santa Rosita. It's in this box, buried under this... [continuing after coughing in his injured state] ...buried under this big W. You'll see it! You'll see it under this big W. You can't miss it! A big, big, W! And it's been there. And it's been laying there for fifteen years! Watch out. Watch out for the bulls. Lousy, stinking bulls are everywhere. Bulls all over the place. You just drive down and dig it up. Dig it all up. And then - and then you fix yourselves all up. Fix yourselves all up. Walk down the street like a king, back to the old neighborhood. See the fellas, the dames - the dames, all with a big hello - a big hello for old Smiler. Good old Smiler, everybody's friend. [lies his head down, almost dead. Benjy takes his hat off, until he jolts awake and grabs Melville's jacket] Aunt Belle, I didn't mean to do it!

Holy mackerel, take it easy, mister!

Easy!

Smiler Grogan
[last words]

Please! Please say it don't make any difference, Aunt Belle! Please! You gotta say! You gotta tell me it don't make any difference!

For heaven's sake, tell him.

It - It don't make any difference.

[Smiler Grogan groans, finally passes away, and kicks the bucket - literally, stunning the men]

That guy is dead. You better believe it.

Oh, I believe it all right, but if he jumps up again like he did before, I'm gonna get the hell out of here.

[on the phone]

Mama, who's with you? Where are you talking to me? Where are you?

[on the phone]

I'm with this truck driver at Peterson's garage in a place called Plaster City! And will you just shut up a minute so I can tell you what happened?!

[on the phone]

Now listen, Mommy, you listen to me close. You stay right there, because I'm coming, Mom. I'm coming to get you right now, Mom.

[on the phone]

Will you shut up and listen?!

[on the phone]

Mama, it's all right. Everything's gonna be all right, Mama. Your baby's coming to get ya. You just sit there. Sit there, relax, take it easy.

[on the phone]

Sylvester-!

[on the phone]

I'm coming to get you, Mom!

[on the phone]

Shut up and let me talk-!

[on the phone; interrupting his mother]

Everything is gonna be all right! [hangs up]

[to Mrs. Marcus]

Well?

[to Lennie; in a calm shock]

So he's coming here. And I'm not to worry about a thing, because "everything is going to be all right". [to Emmeline; shouting] EXACTLY LIKE YOUR FATHER! A big, stupid, muscle-headed moron!

[to himself while crying and driving]

I'm coming. That's what I'm here for. That's why you had me, Mama, to save you.

Migrant Truck Driver
[After barreling down a hill and stuff flies off the truck] [to his wife]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I didn't want to move to California.

[First lines; the car is on the run. The driver is non other than the elderly criminal Smiler Grogan. He passed the other cars and a truck and jumped off the side of the hilly road, and crashed down below. All the cars pull over one by one, the men quickly jump out in shock at having just witnessed everything]

Whoa! Hey d-did ya see it, the way he went sailing right out there? He just went sailing right out there.

It was terrible, I m-a-mean just terrible. He musta been doin' over eighty ya know.

An ambulance - we better, we oughta call an ambulance.

Oh...Oh look at that car.

[The group starts bickering and talking over one another]

He went sailing right out there.

How 'bout you doin' ninety miles an hour?

I wasn't doin' - he was passin' me.

We weren't standin' still when he passed us...

I never saw such a crazy guy in my life!...

Come on, let's get down there!

[The group immediately starts scrambling down the rocky hill] [to Emmeline and Mrs. Marcus]

W...We're gonna go down there, you stay in the car.

Emmeline

Now Russell, be careful, remember your condition.

[gestures her hand with disdain]

Eh.

[to himself]

Ooh, boy the way he just sailed out there. [follows down after the group]

[Last lines; after they got injured by the ladder and putting the men into the prison hospital with bandages and casts] [to Culpeper]

It's all your fault, It's your fault right from beginning to end!

You know, even for a policeman, your behavior was ruddy outrageous!

Yeah, you could have taken a fair share like the rest of us, but no! You just had to go and grab up the whole scene, baby.

We had 350,000 bucks right in our hands.

14 into $350,000...

[groans]

Oh, shut up!

I wish I knew what they're going to do to us. But no matter what happens to us... [turns to Culpeper] ...what happens to you, I hope will be worse!

I don't think you have to worry about that. My wife is divorcing me; my mother in-law is suing me for damages; my daughter is petitioning the court to get her name changed; my pension has been revoked, and the ONLY reason, that you ten idiots will very likely get off lightly, is because the judge will have me up there...to throw the book at!

2nd Cabbie

Awww...that's tough! [laughs along with the 3rd Cabbie who smiles to Culpeper]

I'd like to think that sometime, maybe 10 or 20 years from now, there will be something that I could laugh at, anything.

[Benjy finished eating the banana and throws the banana peel on the floor. Mrs. Marcus, Emmeline and Monica enter the hospital room, wearing blue prison dresses] [yelling at the bandaged men]

Now see here, you idiots, it's all your fault, because if you hadn't...! [slips on the banana peel and falls back-first on the floor]

[horrified]

Mama!

[All the hospitalized men, except Sylvester and Culpeper, burst out laughing uproariously] [yelling while being put on the stretcher and taken away by the doctors]

Don't you dare touch me! Get away from me! Let me go! Leave me alone...!!!
[Then Culpeper joins the laughter]

So lets see, now, I got 1 share for being 1 person, 1 share for going down the hill, 1 share for the truck, and 1 share for being a person in the truck, but no matter how you figure it out, I still don't get as much as anybody else!

Let me explain once more. [Points pen at J. Russell Finch, Mrs. Marcus, and Emmeline Marcus-Finch] Them, their group, they, those 3, they get $112,000. [Points pen at Dingy Bell and Benjy Benjamin] Those over there, them, they get $97,000. [Points pen at himself and Monica] We, we, us they get $84,000. [Points pen at Pike] And you, by yourself, you get $56,000, alone, and that's tax free money.

What do you mean "tax free"?

I don't think you have to worry about that. My wife is divorcing me; my mother in-law is suing me for damages; my daughter is petitioning the court to get her name changed; my pension has been revoked, and the ONLY reason, that you ten idiots will very likely get off lightly, is because the judge will have me up there.....to throw the book at!