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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Lou Costello: Horatio Prim

The Time of Their Lives

Lou Costello credited as playing...

Horatio Prim

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Quotes14

  • Horatio Prim: [he and Melody collide and are wearing each other's clothes] Odds bodkins, we're all mixed up!
  • [they run into each other again and get back into their own clothes]
  • Horatio Prim: Melody, don't ever do that again, I'm a boy!
  • Horatio Prim: [Horatio and Nora are laying in the hay, Nora kisses him, he gasps and stutters] Nora!
  • Nora O'Leary: Oh Horatio, do my kisses thrill you that much?
  • Horatio Prim: I'm sitting on a pitchfork!
  • Melody Allen: Here's a horse pistol.
  • [Gives him the gun. Horatio turns to the horse behind him]
  • Horatio Prim: Here, this is for you. Now what do I shoot with?
  • Horatio Prim: Cuthbert, Melody, it's Cuthbert! He's still alive!
  • Melody Allen: How can that be?
  • Horatio Prim: I don't know, they say only the good die young.
  • Horatio Prim: [after seeing Emily for the first time] Zounds! What well did she come out of?
  • Melody Allen: Horatio, be patient.
  • Horatio Prim: Be patient? Melody, do you realize that my Nora has been waiting on me for 165 years? And a girl will only wait so long, and no longer!
  • Melody Allen: I need help.
  • Horatio Prim: [With his head sticking out of a trunk] What do you think I need? Would you please me get out of this overcoat?
  • Telephone operator: [Horatio picks up the phone receiver] Number please.
  • Horatio Prim: Spooks!
  • [runs over to Melody]
  • Horatio Prim: That thing just talked to me!
  • Melody Allen: [Tom's voice is coming through Emily] Horatio, why can't I see him?
  • Horatio Prim: You can't, you poor kid. You see, he's got his wings, and we're still grounded.
  • Cuthbert Greenway: If he had a letter from George Washington, then he couldn't have been a traitor.
  • Horatio Prim: [raps on the table] That's right!
  • Mildred Dean: Now don't tell me we're going to stay up the rest of the night contacting George Washington!
  • Melody Allen: You know no self-respecting ghosts do any haunting before midnight.
  • Horatio Prim: Alright, I'll wait. But tonight, I haunt!
  • Horatio Prim: I don't want those people coming around here saying,
  • [singing]
  • Horatio Prim: Here lie the dirty traitors! Here lie the dirty traitors!
  • [crying]
  • Horatio Prim: Here lie the dirty traitors.
  • Melody Allen: [picks up a book] Tom Danbury's memoirs.
  • Horatio Prim: His grandmas?
  • Horatio Prim: Odds, bodkins, and copper pots!

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