Funny movie quotes from It’s A Gift, starring W. C. Fields
Funny movie quotes from It’s a Gift, one of W. C. Fields’ funniest movies, where he plays the ultimate henpecked husband who dreams of moving to California and owning an orange grove.
Insurance Salesman: Do you know a man by the name of LaFong? Carl LaFong? Capital L, small a, Capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong. Carl LaFong.
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): No, I don’t know Carl LaFong – capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g. And if I did know Carl LaFong, I wouldn’t admit it!
[Harold has slipped on a skate]
Norman Bissonette (Tommy Bupp): Ha ha. Do it again, Pop.
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): Shut up!
Amelia Bissonette (Kathleen Howard): Hurt yourself, Dear?
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): Shut’¦ Umm no, Dear.
Amelia Bissonette (Kathleen Howard): Now look what you’ve done!
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): She ran right in front of the car!
Amelia Bissonette (Kathleen Howard): It’s a statue, you idiot.
Amelia Bissonette (Kathleen Howard): Seems pretty strange someone would call you from a maternity hospital in the middle of the night.
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): They didn’t call me from a maternity hospital. They called thinking this was the maternity hospital.
Amelia Bissonette (Kathleen Howard): Wake up and go to sleep!
Mother: Just use your own judgment.
Daughter: You tell me where to go.
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): [muttering] I’d like to tell you both where to go.
Harry Payne Bosterly: You’re drunk!
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): And you’re crazy. But I’ll be sober tomorrow and you’ll be crazy for the rest of your life.
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): You all gotta remember one thing: that I
[quietly]
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): am the boss in this house.
[Harold ripped a pillow playing with the dog]
Amelia Bissonette (Kathleen Howard): Those were my mother’s feathers!
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): Never knew your mother had feathers.
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): This sundial is ten minutes slow.
Amelia Bissonette (Kathleen Howard): Yes, the sun is wrong but your watch is right, of course.
Amelia Bissonette (Kathleen Howard): Why were you sitting there like a stone image when those men were insulting me?
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): I was just waiting for one of ’em to say something to me.
Mrs. Dunk: What do you have in the way of steaks?
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): Nothing in the way of steaks, I can get right to them.
[at breakfast, Norman takes the plate of bacon before Harold can get it]
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): Hey, put it down!
Norman Bissonette (Tommy Bupp): What’s the matter, Pop? Don’tcha love me anymore?
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): [he raises his hand to hit Norman] Certainly I love you.
Amelia Bissonette (Kathleen Howard): Don’t you strike that child!
Harold Bissonette (W. C. Fields): Well, he’s not gonna tell me I don’t love him.