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Lupe Velez, Bert Wheeler, and Robert Woolsey in High Flyers (1937)

Robert Woolsey: Pierre Potkin

High Flyers

Robert Woolsey credited as playing...

Pierre Potkin

Quotes18

  • Pierre Potkin: Snoop around and see what you can find out. But don't get lost. And remember: even the walls have ears.
  • Pierre Potkin: That's the first laugh I ever heard with icicles on it.
  • Jerry Lane: Who.
  • Arlene Arlington: Who?
  • Horace Arlington: What's wrong my dear?
  • Pierre Potkin: Who is this woman? Where were you when the missing things where missing? Answer: yes or no.
  • Pierre Potkin: [singing] When I see a pip, I just crack my whip
  • Juanita - the Maid: If you ask for a kiss, I obey
  • Pierre Potkin: Could I do it right now?
  • Juanita - the Maid: Yes, gaucho, and how
  • Pierre Potkin: But, honey, I first want to say: That you are one Miss who is going to kiss, The gosh darnedest gaucho today
  • Pierre Potkin, Juanita - the Maid: Hey! The gosh darnedest gaucho today!
  • Pierre Potkin: [singing] I'm the gosh darnedest gaucho that gauches today, Believe me I know how to gauch.
  • Juanita - the Maid: When it comes to gauchos, I say you're okay,
  • Pierre Potkin: Oh, you think that I can't be a slouch...
  • Horace Arlington: Say, you don't think I'd rob my own house?
  • Pierre Potkin: Well, you may be a somnambulist and do it while you're asleep.
  • Horace Arlington: I certainly do not.
  • Pierre Potkin: How do you know you don't?
  • Horace Arlington: Well, I - i...
  • Pierre Potkin: There you are. There you are. It's an open and shut case.
  • Pierre Potkin: Mr. Arlington, have you any bad habits that you're not aware of? Answer: yes or no.
  • Horace Arlington: No.
  • Pierre Potkin: Ah, you mean that you don't know that you have any bad habits?
  • Horace Arlington: Yes.
  • Pierre Potkin: Oh, yes. Oh, you admit that you have bad habits.
  • Juanita - the Maid: You rang for me Señora?
  • Martha Arlington: Yes Juanita. See if the guest room is in order for Mr. Lane and Mr. Pumpkin.
  • Pierre Potkin: Potkin.
  • Martha Arlington: That's what I said, Pumpkin.
  • Pierre Potkin: You're all nuts. Send for Juanita to pack my bags.
  • Horace Arlington: You didn't bring any bags.
  • Pierre Potkin: Well, then, just send for Juanita. We'll pick up a few things on the way out.
  • Juanita - the Maid: Señor, you sent for me?
  • Pierre Potkin: Oh, yes, my little enchilada.
  • Pierre Potkin: Tell me, what do you make of these robberies around here?
  • Juanita - the Maid: I make nothing! I don't know whos do it.
  • Pierre Potkin: You don't know whos do it?
  • Juanita - the Maid: No.
  • Pierre Potkin: You know, Sñora, you're a - very nice little girl.
  • Juanita - the Maid: Thank you. Now, I go? No?
  • Pierre Potkin: No!
  • Pierre Potkin: [singing] Perhaps you don't know I'm a gaucho, I've gauched with the best you can get...
  • Pierre Potkin: Can I swear you to secrecy?
  • Juanita - the Maid: I will say nothing to somebody!
  • Juanita - the Maid: I go now, yes?
  • Pierre Potkin: Eh, no.
  • Juanita - the Maid: No?
  • Pierre Potkin: Yes.
  • Pierre Potkin: I'm off to Philadelphia.
  • Juanita - the Maid: This is Philadelphia.
  • Pierre Potkin: It is Philadelphia?
  • Juanita - the Maid: Yeah, around the outskirts.
  • Pierre Potkin: Well, that gives me a little time to - play around the outskirts.
  • Pierre Potkin: See that? I'm as smart as any dog.
  • Pierre Potkin: [to Jerry who's in blackface] Where'd you get that sunburn?

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