Free and Easy (1930)
Buster Keaton: Elmer Butts
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Quotes
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Ma : From now on we're going to manage ourselves, Mr. Butts! Oh, I've never been so humiliated in my life. I'm ashamed to show my face.
Elmer Butts : I don't blame ya.
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Elmer Butts : ...I had one too many vanillas, and I kissed her on the back porch!
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Elmer Butts : Oh woe is me, the sqween has quooned.
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Elmer Butts : Oh woe is me, the queen has swooned, after you.
Fred Niblo : The queen didn't swoon after me!
Elmer Butts : She swoon after me?
Fred Niblo : She didn't swoon after anybody!
Elmer Butts : Then why all the excitement?
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Elmer Butts : I love to ride on trains. Do you?
Train Conductor : No!
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Elmer Butts : I was all flustered up there tonight when that feller insisted that I was William Haines. Gee, I felt bad!
Ma : You felt bad? Imagine how William Haines felt!
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Lionel Barrymore - Director of Bedroom Scene : Where in the heck did you come from?
Elmer Butts : Gopher City, Kansas.
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Elmer Butts : I'm awful sorry, Mr. Nibbly.
Fred Niblo : Say, Niblo's the name!
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Fred Niblo : Say, listen. You're going to read this speech right. Understand? Because its a simple speech. Any little four year old child could read this speech and you're going to do it! And you're going to do it with feeling! "Woe is me! The coon has - "
Elmer Butts : Squeened.
Fred Niblo : Listen! The queen has swooned. You understand. The queen has swooned! And nothing else! The queen has swooned - and nothing else!
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Larry : You think I'm a scum, don't you?
Elmer Butts : Well, what do you think?
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Elmer Butts : He ain't so dumb - even if he is in movies.
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Elmer Butts : [singing] All the boys, with high blood pressure/ All the girls, with too much flesh/ Your day has come at last/ Here's a dance, you poor wall flowers/ Once you try, you'll dance for hours/ I'll explain it fast/ Hot stuff is taboo/ Follow me and do/ The Free and Easy...
