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Dom DeLuise and Ron Moody in The Twelve Chairs (1970)

Ron Moody: Vorobyaninov

The Twelve Chairs

Ron Moody credited as playing...

Vorobyaninov

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Quotes10

  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: You're not worth spitting on!
  • Father Fyodor: Oh yeah? Well, you are!
  • [spits]
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Why are you after my chair?
  • Father Fyodor: It's not yours.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Then whose is it?
  • Father Fyodor: It's nationalized property. It belongs to the workers!
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Did you said the workers?
  • Father Fyodor: Yes, the workers.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Maybe the holy father is a member of the communist party.
  • Father Fyodor: Maybe.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: But the party is for atheists. How can a priest join the party?
  • Father Fyodor: The church must keep up with the times.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Where are you going?
  • Ostap Bender: Ah, the eternal question: "Quo Vadis"? Well, if you must know, I am vadissing off to gossip with the secret police.
  • Ostap Bender: Now, maybe if you weren't such a selfish pig, we could do business.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: I can't!
  • Ostap Bender: I'm going.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Wait!
  • Ostap Bender: Why?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Lets talk.
  • Ostap Bender: About what?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Things...
  • Ostap Bender: What things?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: I don't know, situations...
  • Ostap Bender: I am going...
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Wait!
  • Ostap Bender: Why?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Lets talk.
  • Ostap Bender: About what?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: It.
  • Ostap Bender: What's 'it'?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: You know...
  • Ostap Bender: I know what?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: What we're talking about.
  • Ostap Bender: We're talking about nothing, I'm going.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: You mustn't.
  • Ostap Bender: I must.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Why?
  • Ostap Bender: The reward!
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: What reward?
  • Ostap Bender: For turning you in.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Wait!
  • Ostap Bender: Why?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: [desperate] We'll talk.
  • Ostap Bender: [shouting] About what?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: [shouting also] About the diamonds! The diamonds! The diamonds...
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: [trying to remember his lines] I am cousin Michael from Kiev. All the Vorobyaninovs are dead.
  • [He knocks on the door]
  • Worker at Old Ladies Home: [answering the door] Yes?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: I am cousin Kiev from Vorobyaninov. All the Michaels are dead.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: [screaming at his dying mother-in-law for hiding her jewels in a chair] Fifty thousand roubles worth of jewelry stuffed in a chair? Heaven knows who may sit on that chair... *if* it's still a chair!
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: [They've torn one of chairs to pieces when Vorobyaninov realizes] How did you find out about the jewels?
  • Father Fyodor: [pause, then] People talk.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Why, you disgusting creature! You used the sacred sacrement of confession to further your own ends!
  • Father Fyodor: Not really.
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: Well, you are just about the most contemptible creature it has even been my misfortune to meet! You're not worth spitting on!
  • Father Fyodor: Well, you are!
  • [He spits on Vorobyaninov]
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: [upon learning that his mother-in-law is dying] Bozhe moi, that poor woman! That poor woman! Who is going to care of me?
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: [Father Fyodor is on the top of a mountain, ripping a chair apart] It's very quiet... what do you supposed he's doing? Do you think he found the jewels?
  • Ostap Bender: In a moment, the jury will bring in a verdict.
  • [They wait]
  • Father Fyodor: Oh Lord, you're so strict!
  • Ippolit Vorobyaninov: [referring to Father Fyodor's being in drag and trying to steal one of the chairs] This is disgusting!

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