Son of Paleface (1952)

Bob Hope: Peter Potter Jr.

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Quotes 

• Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : [Potter is talking to Mike in the saloon] 

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Now about that cellar...

  Roy Barton : Excuse me.

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : You're excused.

  Roy Barton : I'm talking to the lady.

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Who do you think I'm talking to, a duck?

  Mike 'The Torch' Delroy : Let the man talk.

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : We don't need him.

• Roy Barton : What are you going to pay for that wagon with?

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Ah, a preposition at the end of a sentence, and you split you infinitive. Pretty soon you'll be dangling a participle. Shame on you sir, the school marm will certainly hear about this.

• Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : I was peaches / I was cream / I was captain of the team!

• Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : I was so young at the time, I don't remember many of the things Daddy said about me. If he poured out his heart in this will, I'd kinda like to read it. "The reason I leave all my money to my son Junior is that, being of sound mind I can't leave my money to my wife, 'cause I ain't never forgiven her since the day she presented me with an idiot for a son." Well, I was the only child. "But this idiot is all I got in the world, which shows you what a lousy spot I'm in."

• Ebenezer Hawkins : You're just like your old pa. He was the lyingest, crookedest, mangyest, rottenest, low down critter than never drew a silver breath.

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Say, you really knew my daddy, didn't you? You, sir, have cast aspersions on my dear old daddy, the brave, low-down, mangy, crooked, drunken hero that won the West!

• Mike 'The Torch' Delroy : Put that gun away!

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Let that be the thought for today.

  Kirk : I ought to blow out his yellow liver.

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Blow out my liver, you'd mess up the onions.

  Mike 'The Torch' Delroy : Put it away!

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Yeah, give me back my yellow liver, it matches my spine.

  Mike 'The Torch' Delroy : You know I don't believe in shooting.

  Kirk : Someday you'll be sorry you're so tenderhearted.

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : As I always say, tender heart never won tender liver.

  [Kirk walks away] 

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : I guess I was pretty stern with him.

• Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Why, I'm so mean, I hate myself.

• Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Where I hail from, we don't cotton to folks what cotton to other folks gals that don't cotton to folks that cotton to them. That's cotton talk, see?

  Roy Barton : I apologize, mister.

  Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Oh, you do? Well then beat the whole kit 'n' caboodle of you. That's caboodle talk.

• Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Say, it's gonna be real fun honeymooning in Niagara Falls. My daddy spent a whole week there on his honeymoon, laughing, loving, drinking champagne. He had so much fun, he kinda wished Mother had been with him.

• Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : When I was twelve, oh what a joy, Mom told me I was a boy!

• Peter 'Junior' Potter Jr. : Rock 'em, Sock 'em, Make 'em quit, Hit 'em where they know they're hit!