Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
Sheridan Whiteside:
And now, will you all now leave quietly, or must I ask Miss Cutler to pass among you with a baseball bat?
Jimmy Durante
(as Banjo)
Sheridan Whiteside:
Banjo, my lad, you're wonderful. I may write a book about you.
Banjo: Don't bother, I can't read!
Banjo: Don't bother, I can't read!
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
Sheridan Whiteside:
Go in and read the life of Florence Nightingale and learn how unfitted you are for your chosen profession.
Jimmy Durante
(as Banjo)
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
Sheridan Whiteside:
I simply will not sit down to dinner with midwestern barbarians, I think too highly of my digestive system.
Maggie Cutler: Harry Clarke is one of your oldest friends.
Sheridan Whiteside: My stomach is an older one.
Maggie Cutler: And Mrs. Stanley is president of the women's club.
Sheridan Whiteside: I wouldn't care if she was the whole cabinet.
Maggie Cutler: Harry Clarke is one of your oldest friends.
Sheridan Whiteside: My stomach is an older one.
Maggie Cutler: And Mrs. Stanley is president of the women's club.
Sheridan Whiteside: I wouldn't care if she was the whole cabinet.
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
Sheridan Whiteside:
Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
Sheridan Whiteside:
My great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102, and when she had been dead three days, she looked better than you do now.
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
Sheridan Whiteside:
This ageing debutante, Mr. Jefferson, I retain in my employ only because she is the sole support of her two-headed brother!
