The Little Giant (1933)

Russell Hopton: Al Daniels

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Quotes 

• James Francis 'Bugs' : Yesiree. I'm a young guy that knows all the answers and got my whole life before me. Yeah, and I'm all washed up with mugs. I know I came from the gutter, but I'm steppin' right out of it. I'm gonna meet some real people, do something worthwhile, amount to somethin'!

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : When you meet these people, what are you gonna talk about? Machine guns and beer?

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Oh, I'll manage to talk to them all right, and they'll listen. Say, I've been readin' a lot. I've been studyin'. I ain't been wastin' my time these last months. Whattaya think I've been readin' in all them books for? Here!

  [Indicating "Plato's Republic"] 

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Greek philosphy! Pluto! Yeah, I bet you thought Pluto was a waiter. Ah, I'm just crawlin' with education. I've been readin' all them Greeks. They do plenty besides shinin' shoes and runnin' lunchrooms.

• James Francis 'Bugs' : [Pointing at a Cubist painting]  You ever see anything like that before?

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : Not since I been off cocaine.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Ay, you dumb head! I suppose you think that's a cat havin' a fit in a bucket of tomato ketchup. Well, it ain't, see. That's art! Why it's one of the finest examples of - of Fut - of Furi - of Futurism. Yeah! Why that's got, eh, eh, dynamic rhythm. Yeah, that's what it's got and tone color! But, it ain't got a nickel's worth of perspective.

• James Francis 'Bugs' : How's for Europe? My old man come from there. He says it ain't bad.

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : No. That's out. You gotta have a passport.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Okay, we get ourselves one.

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : You can't get a passport unless you have a receipt that you paid your income tax.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Oh, yeah, I forgot. Old man income tax.

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : And they call this a free country!

• James Francis 'Bugs' : Well, it's all over boys. We're washed up.

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : I know it was comin'. What'd I always tell ya? I knew it was too good to last.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Well, it lasted long enough to put us in the dough! Then it ain't no more.

• James Francis 'Bugs' : That stupid flatfoot. Just one good poke!

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : No, no. Don't, Bugs!

  James Francis 'Bugs' : You're right, Al. I got a million and a quarter salted away and all's he got is flat feet! Let 'em laugh.

• James Francis 'Bugs' : Say, I'm just crawlin' with culture. Ask me anything! What do you want to know?

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : A good reason why I shouldn't get stinkin' drunk.

• James Francis 'Bugs' : Say, why do we have to put on these monkey suits? Why couldn't we wear a tux?

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : I keep tellin' ya. Nobody in this kind of a joint wears tuxedos at night but waiters.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Well, if you're wrong, you better order yourself an ambulance.

• Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : [after Bugs places an order for coffee in "French"]  When did you learn how to talk this monkey-jabber?

  James Francis 'Bugs' : I used to have 10% of a French dame.

• Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : Oh, lets hop into town and pick up a couple of waitresses.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : I didn't come out here to hustle any waitresses. First class or none.

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : They won't come near ya. They won't even give you a tumble.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Yeah, they walk around us like we have the small pox. Forty-five bucks a day and they high hat ya.

• Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : Now, there's a great town, that Frisco! Wide open! Good eats! Good liquor! And just crawlin' with beautiful, friendly dames. And little Hymie gave me a couple of good addresses.

• Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : Boy, am I glad to screw out of that morgue. Three days and we don't even get a tumble.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Yeah, you're right. A lot of half-witted chumps riding around on Shetland ponies, knockin' a little ball. And a lot of high hat baboons sittin' on horses - all swelled up with themselves. Won't talk to nobody! Horses!

• Edith Merriam : What's eatin' the Little Giant tonight?

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : He's goin' outta business. How do you like that?

• Frankie : Joe says they're gonna beat the can off you.

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : That greaseball's gonna beat the can off of us, huh? He is, huh? I'll get the boys and...

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Now, just a minute. I'll take care of this. Thanks for the tip.

  [Gives Frankie a bill] 

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Here, scram and buy yourself a cigar.

  Frankie : I'm practically gone, sweetheart. Much obliged for the sugar.

• James Francis 'Bugs' : I told you we were through and I meant it.

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : You gonna sit here and let that garlic muffin give you the finger?

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Well, we'll blow outta town. Quick.

• James Francis 'Bugs' : Santa Barbara? Say, I wonder what that Santa means?

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : That must be Spanish for saint.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Yeah?

  [laughs] 

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : What's eatin' you?

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Say, I was just thinkin' - a couple of hoodlums like us movin' in on a saint.

• James Francis 'Bugs' : Boy, what a layout.

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : Well, it ought to be. Take a squirt at that.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Forty-five dollars - per day? Well, we're travelin' in fast company. Forty-five. Seven times forty, that's two-eighty

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : It's over three hundred bucks a week.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Oh, it ain't the money that burns me. Say, I'll give over three hundred a week to the bellhops around here! But, I don't want them to get it in their heads that they got a yap up here!

• Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : Have you gone screwy?

  James Francis 'Bugs' : They ain't gonna make a chump outta me.

• Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : What's the matter? How many of them are they? Have they got rods?

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Nah, you waif, it's a skirt! And is she the McCoy.

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : Oh, I thought some guy had the finger on us.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : One quick hint at her and you can tell she's a lady. It's painted on her like a billboard.

• Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : You want to meet her?

  James Francis 'Bugs' : You know her?

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : No, but I can ease over there and sort of break the ice.

  James Francis 'Bugs' : Wait, you mush head. You ain't on North Clark Street. You're in Society, now. You don't talk to people until you've been properly introduced.

  Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : Ah, dames are alike all over the world.

• Albert J. 'Al' Daniels : I wonder how long a guy could stay drunk if he really tried?