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Sig Ruman Quotes

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Memorable Quotes from Sig Ruman

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Threats and Irony in Power Dynamics
Commandante Sebastian Golle What's she want here?
Don Diego Vega For breakfast, a priest to bury her father. For lunch, Zorro's head on a pikestaff.
Commandante Sebastian Golle She does, eh? Thinks she can give me orders? I'll get my hands on her and govern her with a lash.
Don Diego Veg Bravo. There's no more bracing treat than beating women. Of course, it will cost you your head.
Commandante Sebastian Golle Oh, what?
Don Diego Vega The queen is her aunt. And the queen hates having her nieces flogged by the soldiery.
Power and Consequences in Leadership
Don Diego Vega Mercy! What have I done?
Commandante Sebastian Golle Nothing. That's just to keep my hand in incase I have to lash the life out of some fool who would betray me.
Missed Opportunities at the Opera
Gottlieb If you pardon my saying so, Mrs. Claypool, Mr. Driftwood seems hardly the person to handle your business affairs?
Driftwood Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Well, I made it. How soon does the curtain go up?
Gottlieb The curtain, Mr. Driftwood, will go up again next season.
Mrs. Claypool You've missed the entire opera.
Driftwood Well, I only missed it by a few minutes. Then, I can go then, huh?
Gottlieb Mrs. Claypool, was I right? Isn't Lassparri the greatest tenor that ever lived?
Mrs. Claypool He's superb. What would you have to pay him?
Gottlieb What's the difference? He must sail with us tomorrow no matter how much we pay him. Why, he would be worth $1,000 a night.
Driftwood How much?
Gottlieb $1,000 a night.
Driftwood A thousand dollars a nacht? What does he do?
Gottlieb What's he do? He sings!
Driftwood And you're willing to pay him $1,000 a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of ] for 75 cents. For a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie.
[[w:Minnie the Moocher|Minnie the Moocher]
Gottlieb If you'll excuse me, Mrs. Claypool, I think I had better arrange to see Lassparri immediately. You are agreed-- $1,000 a night?
Mrs. Claypool Just as you like.
Driftwood Thousand dollars a night? There must be some way I can get a piece of this? Wait a minute! Why don't I sign Lassparri? I represent Mrs. Claypool.
[To himself; To Gottlieb]
Gottlieb But, I represent the New York Opera Company. My boy? Will you give my card to signor Lassparri, please?
Betrayal and Loyalty in Conflict
Lady Isabella Palma But this is treason!
Commandante Sebastian Golle No, lady. This is common sense. You would betray me tomorrow as you betrayed him today.
Moral Dilemma in High-Stakes Aviation
Geoff In about a week, you'll either collect or lose your shirt.
[after Joe crashes]
Dutchy Oh, I'm not thinking about that. I just can't go on killing nice kids like that, not if I lose a dozen shirts!
Geoff You think you're the only one that feels that way?
Dutchy Then why do you send them up for in that kind of weather?
Geoff Because I'm running an airline and I'm not running it any different than anybody I ever flew for...Joe died flying, didn't he? That was his job. He just wasn't good enough. That's why he got it.
Dutchy I ain't built like you are, Geoff. I shouldn't be in such a business. We can't go on like that...Oh, Geoff! You're a hard man, much too hard.
Geoff Cut it out...Cut it out!..What's the use of feeling bad about something that couldn't be helped?...I told you, Joe just wasn't good enough. If he hadn't got it tonight, he was bound to get it sooner or later.
Dutchy Then you had no business to let him fly.
Geoff What, ground that kid? Say, he'd sooner be where he is than quit.
A Proposition of Marriage Rejected
Commandante Sebastian Golle You said you'd give anything to him who hangs Zorro, remember? Now, will you give half of Santa Cruz to me... by marriage?
Lady Isabella Palma I marry a sweating, grease-brain brute like you? No, never.
Confusion Over Identity in a Public Space
Gottlieb Could you tell me where Lassparri is?
Fiorello Sure. There's Lassparri.
Gottlieb LASSPARRI!!
Driftwood Lassparri? Then, whom did I sign?
Fiorello You signed Riccardo Baroni. That's my man.
Gottlieb Signor Lassparri, what happened! Speak to me! It's me! It's Gottlieb! It's me! It's Gottlieb!
Gottlieb Oh! What is this now!?
Driftwood How early is the fruit is falling this season!