Ali Baba:
Excuse me, who are these fellows? They're not even listening!
Sultan: They're my new musicians from Africa.
Ali Baba: Africa?
[to musicians]
Ali Baba: What part of Africa?
Sultan: I'm afraid they don't understand you. You see, they talk a strange tongue.
Ali Baba: [to musicians] Parlez-vous Français?
[No response]
Ali Baba: Se hable espanol? Capisce italian'?
[No response]
Ali Baba: Verstehse bissel Yiddish?
[No response. Ali Baba has a flash of inspiration]
Ali Baba: Wait a minute! Hi de hi de ho?
Musicians: Hee de hee de hee!
Ali Baba: Hey de hey de hey!
Musicians: Ho de ho de ho!
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Ali Baba Goes to Town
Sultan: They're my new musicians from Africa.
Ali Baba: Africa?
[to musicians]
Ali Baba: What part of Africa?
Sultan: I'm afraid they don't understand you. You see, they talk a strange tongue.
Ali Baba: [to musicians] Parlez-vous Français?
[No response]
Ali Baba: Se hable espanol? Capisce italian'?
[No response]
Ali Baba: Verstehse bissel Yiddish?
[No response. Ali Baba has a flash of inspiration]
Ali Baba: Wait a minute! Hi de hi de ho?
Musicians: Hee de hee de hee!
Ali Baba: Hey de hey de hey!
Musicians: Ho de ho de ho!
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Ali Baba Goes to Town
Ali Baba:
Wait, I think I've got something! You don't have to be a sultan - you can resign!
Sultan: Resign? Desert my throne? Forsake my people? Allah would never forgive me.
Ali Baba: You don't have to desert your people. You can go on being the head man, but instead of sultan you become a president.
Sultan: A what?
Ali Baba: A president, like they have in America.
Sultan: Well, does he rule the country?
Ali Baba: Does he rule the country? Hunh! Ask the Republicans!
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Ali Baba Goes to Town
Sultan: Resign? Desert my throne? Forsake my people? Allah would never forgive me.
Ali Baba: You don't have to desert your people. You can go on being the head man, but instead of sultan you become a president.
Sultan: A what?
Ali Baba: A president, like they have in America.
Sultan: Well, does he rule the country?
Ali Baba: Does he rule the country? Hunh! Ask the Republicans!
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Ali Baba Goes to Town
Eddie Williams aka Don Sebastian II:
[after Rosalie drops the key down her dress] ...the key to the whole situation somewhere between Tijuana and the border!
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in The Kid from Spain
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in The Kid from Spain
Eddie Williams aka Don Sebastian II:
I was gonna tell you the one about my uncle. He fell down the well. You know what happened? He kicked the bucket.
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in The Kid from Spain
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in The Kid from Spain
Eddie Wilson Jr.:
I wonder what the doctor said to your father when you were born.
Princess Fanya: Why bring that up?
Eddie Wilson Jr.: That's just what I thought.
--Eddie Cantor (as Eddie Wilson Jr.) in Kid Millions
Princess Fanya: Why bring that up?
Eddie Wilson Jr.: That's just what I thought.
--Eddie Cantor (as Eddie Wilson Jr.) in Kid Millions
Henry Williams:
[to Mary] Why do you make overtures to me when I need intermissions so badly?
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Whoopee!
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Whoopee!
George Doane:
You must have the theater in your blood.
Eddie Martin: Yes, and my blood is in a lot of these theaters.
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Show Business
Eddie Martin: Yes, and my blood is in a lot of these theaters.
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Show Business
Sultan:
I hope you'll enjoy what we've got - if you don't mind taking pot luck?
Ali Baba: Can I get a hot dog and a bottle of pop?
Sultan: Hot dog? Pop?
Ali Baba: That's the great national diet in America. I've just come from there.
Sultan: America? Where is that?
Ali Baba: A great open space between New York and Hollywood.
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Ali Baba Goes to Town
Ali Baba: Can I get a hot dog and a bottle of pop?
Sultan: Hot dog? Pop?
Ali Baba: That's the great national diet in America. I've just come from there.
Sultan: America? Where is that?
Ali Baba: A great open space between New York and Hollywood.
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Ali Baba Goes to Town
Sally Morgan:
But they'll give you twenty years.
Henry Williams: Twenty ye - ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Sally Morgan: What are you laughing at?
Henry Williams: Why, the joke's on them.
Sally Morgan: Why?
Henry Williams: I can't live but six months.
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Whoopee!
Henry Williams: Twenty ye - ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Sally Morgan: What are you laughing at?
Henry Williams: Why, the joke's on them.
Sally Morgan: Why?
Henry Williams: I can't live but six months.
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Whoopee!
Jerome Underwood:
You know who I am?
Henry Williams: Who?
Jerome Underwood: I'm an Underwood.
Henry Williams: Indian no care for typewriter!
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Whoopee!
Henry Williams: Who?
Jerome Underwood: I'm an Underwood.
Henry Williams: Indian no care for typewriter!
--Eddie Cantor (as ) in Whoopee!