Funny movies quotes from Pick a Star – a Jack Haley/Patsy Kelly romantic comedy. Laurel and Hardy, and several other Hal Roach Studio actors, make short appearances.
Rinaldo Lopez: Do you mind if I smoke?
Nellie Moore: I don’t care if you burn!
Nellie Moore: And what are you doing?
Newlywed: Nothing.
Nellie Moore: Well, would you mind going downstairs and doing it with your wife.
Nellie Moore: Come on, Joe, let’s get outta here.
Sheriff: Here, here. Look here, look here. Now, I’m the Sheriff.
Nellie Moore: Well, do your duty and go back to sleep.
Radio Announcer: [on the radio] I wish all you folks listening in could be here tonight. Why, I can stand here at the microphone and reach out and touch Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor and a dozen others.
Cecilia Moore: Did you hear that Nellie?
Nellie Moore: Tell him to touch Clark Gable for me.
Nellie Moore: [Nervous about getting on an airplane for the first time] I’m so afraid that I might get frightened that I’m scared to death!
Rinaldo Lopez: My dear, I can’t even allow myself to think of marriage.
Cecilia Moore: No?
Rinaldo Lopez: No! For several reasons. First, my contract won’t allow it. Second, my public won’t permit it. And third, I’m not the marrying kind!
Nellie Moore: Oh and by the way, where are all these movie stars like Garbo and Gable that you were going to show us?
Rinaldo Lopez: Did you want to see stars?
Nellie Moore: Well, certainly. You didn’t think we wanted to look at you all night, did you? At least show us Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck or somethin’.
Rinaldo Lopez: I should have realized. But, I was swept off my feet. You know that.
Joe Jenkins: Yes.
Rinaldo Lopez: Beautiful night. Beautiful girl.
Joe Jenkins: You bet your life she is.
Rinaldo Lopez: Propinquity.
Joe Jenkins: Pro- I don’t believe it! If it was, it was all on your side.
Rinaldo Lopez: Of course. She’s a sweet girl.
Joe Jenkins: I know she is.
Laurel and Hardy
Director James Finlayson: Now, you know what you’ve got to do?
Oliver Hardy: We know it backwards.
Stan Laurel: Say, do we have to do this backwards?
Director James Finlayson: No, no, no!
Stan Laurel: Well, when am I supposed to look dumb?
Oliver Hardy: [filming a scene south of the border] Muchas gracias, Señor.
Stan Laurel: Tango. Machismo. Viejo.
Oliver Hardy: Correcto.
Stan Laurel: Sacramento.
Rinaldo Lopez: I was a brute. All men are brutes.
Director James Finlayson: Yes. I guess they are.
Rinaldo Lopez: So, you too, huh?
Director James Finlayson: Who me? Oh, no. No.
Rinaldo Lopez: Never?
Director James Finlayson: No. Well, hardly ever.
Dagmar
Rinaldo Lopez: [after a singing star throws a tantrum on her movie set] You see, Dagmar is what we call “tempramental”…
Nellie Moore: You mean she’s what you call tempramental. She’s what we call nuts!
Dimitri Hogan: I don’t want any sarcasm out of you. All I want is: hot!
Dagmar: Well, I’m giving you all the hot I can give!
Dimitri Hogan: Well, give me: hotter!
Dagmar: Ho-kay!