Memorable Quotes from Nana Bryant
2 quotesMissed Opportunities and Delayed Reactions
Mrs. Benchley
So while you were shilly-shallying, they made the picture. I never knew it to fail. In all the years that I've known you, you've always been too late. Really, Robert, I can't understand why you're forever letting these opportunities slip through your fingers. Anyone would've thought of it in time, months ago. But you... Well, why don't you say something?
[sighs]
Robert Benchley
Aw, phooey! Phooey!
[as Donald Duck; quacking furiously]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
A Journey Under the Stars
Mrs. Benchley
So they set off up the hill, arm in arm, the knight, the dragon, and the boy. The lights in the little village began to go out one by one." "But there were stars and a late moon as they climbed the downs together." Robert, please.
[first line of the film; reading; is interrupted by a toy rifle going off; toy rifle again]
Robert Benchley
Go on, I can hear in any position.
[shoots a dart at a duck decoy in the pool]
Mrs. Benchley
And as they turned the last corner and disappeared from view, snatches of an old song were borne back on the night breeze. I can't be certain which of them was singing, but I think it was the dragon.
[continues reading]
Robert Benchley
Go on, I'm listening.
Mrs. Benchley
That was the end, and a very lovely end, too.
Robert Benchley
Yeah, charming, charming. It's funny. No matter which way I aim, I always hit the same duck.
Mrs. Benchley
Robert, I have a wonderful idea. We'll sell this book to ].
[[Walt Disney]
Robert Benchley
Well, you can't. It belongs to your nephew. So does this, too. I wonder what he'd take for it.
[looks at rifle]
Mrs. Benchley
I mean the idea, for a movie. I'm sure if you went to his studio and suggested it to him, he'd jump at it.
Robert Benchley
Me suggest a story to Walt Disney? Why, I hardly know him.
Mrs. Benchley
Well, you hardly knew me when you suggested marriage.
Robert Benchley
Yeah, look at the trouble I got into. He can't listen to every crackpot with a wild idea.
Mrs. Benchley
You might be the exception. All you would have to do would be to go to his studio and show him the book.
Robert Benchley
I wouldn't dream of it!
Mrs. Benchley
They're always open to new ideas. Get your things on, and stop shilly-shallying.
Robert Benchley
I am not shillying and I am not shallying. But once and for all, I will not go to the studio. I will not make myself look ridiculous. And that's final.
[stands up on raft; falls through and bubbles come out of his mouth]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.