Funny movie quotes from The Great Dictator, starring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
You can read the final speech from The Great Dictator, known as “Look Up, Hannah“
Commander Shutlz (Reginald Gardiner) : Check the gas.
A Jewish Barber (Charlie Chaplin) : I did, it kept me up all night.
Commander Shultz : Strange, and I thought you were an Aryan.
A Jewish Barber (Charlie Chaplin) : No. I’m a vegetarian
International press reporter : The Fooyie has just referred to the Jewish people.
Field Marshall Herring (Billy Gilbert): We’ve just discovered the best poisonous gas. It will kill everybody.
Commander Shultz: Heil Hynk… Oh what am I saying?
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): How wonderful! Tomania, a nation of blue-eyed blondes.
Garbitsch (Henry Daniell): Why not a blonde Europe, Asia, America?
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Blonde world…
Garbitsch: And a brunette dictator.
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Dictator of the world!
Commander Shultz: [plane is upside down] We’re upside down!
A Jewish Barber (Charlie Chaplin) : I know it.
Commander Shultz: Give me that stick!
A Jewish Barber (Charlie Chaplin) : Impossible.
Commander Shultz: [engine dies] Oh, there it goes. We’re out of gas. Well, this is it then. [pulls out cigarette pack] Cigarette?
A Jewish Barber (Charlie Chaplin) : Not now.
Commander Shultz: Then I shan’t need this anymore. [tosses cigarette pack]
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Declare war on Napaloni.
Garbitsch: Napaloni?
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Yes, Napaloni! [to Field Marshal Herring] Listen, you blockhead. Mobilize every division of the army and the air force. Proceed to Bacteria and attack at once.
Garbitsch: But war will be the end of us.
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Do as I tell you.
Garbitsch: Madness.
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Shut up!
Garbitsch: Very well. Would you sign this?
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Yes, I’ll… what is it?
Garbitsch: The declaration of war.
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Then I’ll sign it. A pen! Und stratz mit ze uldensackt. I’ll sign it! Und stratz mit sei Ãldensackt, il der, der flutens… , der… , der… , und strippensackt! A pen! I’ll sign it. Napaloni, de grosse peanut, de cheesy ravioli. There!
A Jewish Barber (Charlie Chaplin): We seem to be defying the laws of gravity.
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): [Excusing himself from Madame Napaloni’s company on the dance floor upon being summoned by Garbitsch] Madame, your dancing was superb. Excellent. Very good. Good.
Commander Shultz: Can you fly a plane?
A Jewish Barber (Charlie Chaplin) : I can certainly try…
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): [in the middle of a speech in which he rants in “German”] Phooey!
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Garbitsch, what’s the meaning of this? These appropriations? 25 million for prison camps when we need every penny for the manufacturing of ammunitions?
Garbitsch: We’ve had to make a few arrests.
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): A few? How many?
Garbitsch: Nothing astronomical. Five or ten thousand.
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Oh.
Garbitsch: A Day.
Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin): Schultz, why have you forsaken me?