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.