Janie:
Where's your car?
Harry: Why, do you mind walking?
Janie: [laughs] I'd love to.
Harry: Good, I like to walk.
[Breathes deeply]
Janie: I guess, if you don't have to, you want to, hunh?
Harry: Well, even if you don't want to, you may have to, so... might as well want to.
Janie: [laughs] I guesss if you don't want to, and you don't have to, you just don't if you don't want to.
Harry: Yeah, well, you can always take a taxi!
--Burgess Meredith (as ) in Tom, Dick and Harry
Harry: Why, do you mind walking?
Janie: [laughs] I'd love to.
Harry: Good, I like to walk.
[Breathes deeply]
Janie: I guess, if you don't have to, you want to, hunh?
Harry: Well, even if you don't want to, you may have to, so... might as well want to.
Janie: [laughs] I guesss if you don't want to, and you don't have to, you just don't if you don't want to.
Harry: Yeah, well, you can always take a taxi!
--Burgess Meredith (as ) in Tom, Dick and Harry
Lennie:
I wish we had some ketchup.
George: Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want!
--Burgess Meredith (as George) in Of Mice and Men
George: Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want!
--Burgess Meredith (as George) in Of Mice and Men
Danny O'Neill:
[hiding himself] What'ya think you're doing under this bed?
Hank Taylor: Looking for a collar button.
--Burgess Meredith (as ) in Second Chorus
Hank Taylor: Looking for a collar button.
--Burgess Meredith (as ) in Second Chorus
Dick Matthews:
For three years, I've been wondering how you'd look... and *you do!*
--Burgess Meredith (as ) in There Goes the Groom
--Burgess Meredith (as ) in There Goes the Groom
George Milton:
It's lonesome for a guy to be without a dog.
--Burgess Meredith (as George) in Of Mice and Men
--Burgess Meredith (as George) in Of Mice and Men
Hank Taylor:
I'll buy you a cigar.
J. Lester Chisholm: I don't like cigars.
Hank Taylor: Don't you worry about it! I'll smoke it myself.
--Burgess Meredith (as ) in Second Chorus
J. Lester Chisholm: I don't like cigars.
Hank Taylor: Don't you worry about it! I'll smoke it myself.
--Burgess Meredith (as ) in Second Chorus
Quillary:
While you sit here eating and drinking, their planes dropped fifty thousand kilos of bombs on innocent people. Heavens knows how many were killed; how much of life and beauty is forever destroyed. And you sit here eating and drinking with them, the murderers. It was their planes from the very field down there. Assassins!
--Burgess Meredith (as Quillary) in Idiot's Delight
--Burgess Meredith (as Quillary) in Idiot's Delight
Harry Tate:
[referring to Tropp] Don't he give a damn what people think, him ridin' around the country in a hearse?
Doc Joseph Scully: If you're the richest undertaker in Texas, you're entitled to a fancy rig, but if you spend your days and nights trying to keep people alive, you ride around in the likes of this.
[he shakes the reins of his carriage]
Doc Joseph Scully: Giddy-up!
--Burgess Meredith (as Doc Scully) in A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Doc Joseph Scully: If you're the richest undertaker in Texas, you're entitled to a fancy rig, but if you spend your days and nights trying to keep people alive, you ride around in the likes of this.
[he shakes the reins of his carriage]
Doc Joseph Scully: Giddy-up!
--Burgess Meredith (as Doc Scully) in A Big Hand for the Little Lady
[Final Line]
Ernie Pyle: (Voice-over): For those beneath the wooden crosses, there is nothing we can do, except perhaps to pause and murmur, "Thanks pal, thanks."
--Burgess Meredith (as Ernie Pyle Scripps) in The Story of G.I. Joe
Ernie Pyle: (Voice-over): For those beneath the wooden crosses, there is nothing we can do, except perhaps to pause and murmur, "Thanks pal, thanks."
--Burgess Meredith (as Ernie Pyle Scripps) in The Story of G.I. Joe
[The bigoted Judge Purcell rebukes a white lawyer for his help to the black defendant]
Judge Purcell: Don't you rattle your skeleton in my court! Your being here at all constitutes a treachery to the entire white community that's too colossal to be believed!
--Burgess Meredith (as Judge Purcell) in Hurry Sundown
Judge Purcell: Don't you rattle your skeleton in my court! Your being here at all constitutes a treachery to the entire white community that's too colossal to be believed!
--Burgess Meredith (as Judge Purcell) in Hurry Sundown
