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Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo in The Princess and the Pirate (1944)

Bob Hope: Sylvester

The Princess and the Pirate

Bob Hope credited as playing...

Sylvester

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  • Sylvester: My act is known all over Europe; that's why I'm going to America.
  • Princess Margaret: I hear there are pirates in these waters.
  • Sylvester: Yeah? Well, let them stay in the water, they're dangerous on ships!
  • Sylvester: I work my brains out for nine reels, and some bit player from Paramount comes over and steals my girl. That's the last picture I'll ever make for Goldwyn!
  • Sylvester: If you don't tell anybody I'm not a gypsy, I won't tell anybody you're not an idiot.
  • Princess Margaret: Why don't you die like a man?
  • Sylvester: Because I'd rather live like a woman!
  • Featherhead: You can't miss him. He looks just like me. He's twice as smart as I am.
  • Sylvester: Oh, a half-wit, huh?
  • Owner of the 'Bucket of Blood': You sound like a stranger. You haven't lived very long in this town, huh?
  • Sylvester: Does anybody?
  • Sylvester: Look at them building that gallows out there. They're not going to use that noose to rope a moose. That's slumber lumber.
  • Sylvester: I'll chop off his liver! Say, that might be pretty good, chopped liver.
  • Sylvester: How do you like that? The king. Hi, your honor. How's the queen and all the little Jacks? I'm a card, ha, ha!
  • Sylvester: [During written description of blood-thirsty LaRoche, Sylvester pops up as bubble] That's not me folks, I come on later, I play a coward.
  • Sylvester: Wait a minute. Why are you in such a sweat to get rid of it now?
  • Featherhead: 'Cause I'm smarter than you are, and I'm only an idiot.

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