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Funny movie quotes from The Greatest Show on Earth

Funny Movie Quotes from The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) starring Charleton Heston, Gloria Grahame, Cornel Wilde, Betty Hutton, Jimmy Stewart

Angel (Gloria Grahame): Listen, sugar, the only way that you can keep me warm is to wrap me up in a marriage license.


[To Holly, as his blood is being transfused into Brad.]
Sebastian (Cornel Wilde): If he should make love well after this, pay no attention – it will be me.


Holly (Betty Hutton): I’d hate to have your nerve in a tooth!


Angel (Gloria Grahame): You are a sourpuss, aren’t you?
Brad Braden (Charlton Huston): Yeah.
Angel (Gloria Grahame): You want to bite somebody?
Brad Braden (Charlton Huston): Yeah.
Angel (Gloria Grahame): Well, pick your spot.


Buttons (Jimmy Stewart): Clowns are funny people, they only love once.
Holly (Betty Hutton): All men aren’t that way, even if they act like clowns.


Holly (Betty Hutton): [singing] When things go wrong, and life’s no song, and you’re flat on your back, that doesn’t mean you have to lie there: be a jumping jack!
Buttons (Jimmy Stewart): [singing] Keep on the hop, and if you flop, and everything looks black, stand on your head and holler “hi there!” Be a jumping jack!
Holly (Betty Hutton): When things go up, they must come down, and also visa verse. If things look bad, don’t fret and frown – they could be ten times worse!
Buttons (Jimmy Stewart): Your train of luck, it may get stuck if something’s on the track; give a good jump and you’ll get by there…
Holly, Buttons: Be a jumping jack!


Angel (Gloria Grahame): Did he say you were like cognac? All fire in zee glass?
Holly (Betty Hutton): No, he said I was like champagne. I made his head spin.
Angel (Gloria Grahame): Yeah, only you’ll be the one who winds up with a hangover.


Angel (Gloria Grahame): [Sebastian almost drives his car into the elephant Angel is riding] Hey! Don’t crowd, mister! Can’t you see an elephant or do I have to paint her red?
The Great Sebastian (Cornell Wilde): I was blinded by the memory of a beautiful night in Paris.
Angel (Gloria Grahame): [to the other circus performers] Blow up your water wings, girls, here comes the big wave! [to Sebastian] Angel (Gloria Grahame): How come no husband ever shot you?
The Great Sebastian (Cornell Wilde): I never offer a sitting target.
Angel (Gloria Grahame): I thought I’d seen the last of you when you got mixed up with that wire walker in Lisbon.
The Great Sebastian (Cornell Wilde): You will never see the last of me, Angel.
Klaus (Lyle Bettger): ANGEL!
Angel (Gloria Grahame): That will be arranged when you meet Klaus.


Klaus (Lyle Bettger): Your legs are too thin, your hair is too red, you have lips like a cat. You’re no good. You give me too much trouble.
Angel (Gloria Grahame): Flattery rolls right off me.


Holly (Betty Hutton): I’d hate to have your nerve in a tooth!


[to Holly, as his blood is being transfused into Brad] The Great Sebastian (Cornell Wilde): If he should make love well after this, pay no attention — it will be me.

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