Horace:
Advice is cheap, Ms. Molloy. It's the things that come gift wrapped that count!
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
Horace:
Any man who goes to a big city deserves what happens to him.
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
Horace:
Eighty percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in danger of contamination.
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
Horace:
I'm going to march in the 14th street parade with the only kind of people I can trust: 700 men.
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
Horace:
It takes a woman all powdered and pink to joyously clean out the drain in the sink!
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
Horace:
Mrs. Malloy, I shan't bother you again. And I hope vice versa.
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
--Walter Matthau (as Horace Vandergelder) in Hello Dolly!
Mel Miller:
[commenting on one of Lonesome Rhodes' on-air tirades after the two have had a falling out] I'll say one thing for him, he's got the courage of his ignorance.
--Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd
--Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd
Mel Miller:
[of TV] You gotta be a saint to stand all the power that little box can give you.
--Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd
--Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd
Mel Miller:
[of writers] Here you see the lepers of the great television industry. Men without faces. Why, they even slide our paychecks under the door so they can pretend we're not here.
--Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd
--Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd
Mel Miller:
Didn't you know? All mild men are vicious. They hate themselves for being mild, and they hate the windy extroverts whose violence seems to have a strange attraction for nice girls. You should know better.
--Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd
--Walter Matthau (as Mel Miller) in A Face in the Crowd
