Alexander Bullock Quotes in My Man Godfrey (1936)

Alexander Bullock: All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.

Blake: Take a look at the dizzy old gal with the goat.

Alexander Bullock: I've had to look at her for 20 years - that's MRS. Bullock!

Blake: I'm terribly sorry!

Alexander Bullock: How do you think I feel?

Alexander Bullock: Life in this family is one subpoena after another.

Alexander Bullock: I've just been going over last month's bills, and I find that you people have confused me with the Treasury Department.

Cornelia Bullock: Oh, don't start that again, Dad.

Alexander Bullock: I don't mind giving the government 60% of what I make. But I can't do it when my family spends 50%!

Irene: Well, why should the government get more money than your own family?

Angelica Bullock: Oh, Alexander, you missed all the excitement.

Alexander Bullock: What's going on?

Angelica Bullock: Oh, let me see. I knew what it was I wanted to say, but somehow it slipped my mind.

Alexander Bullock: What's the matter with Irene?

Angelica Bullock: Oh, yes, that's it. Irene's got herself engaged!

Alexander Bullock: To whom?

Angelica Bullock: Oh, I don't know, Van something-or-other. I think he's the boy with his arm around that girl in pink. He's got lots of money.

Alexander Bullock: Well, he'll need it.

Detective: [notices Carlo by the french doors] Who's that?

Irene: It's mother's protegé.

Detective: No wisecracks. Is that your son?

Alexander Bullock: That? Say, listen. I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I'll be hanged if I'll plead guilty to that!

Alexander Bullock: We've got to come to an understanding right now: either Carlo is or I am.

Angelica Bullock: Am what?

Alexander Bullock: Well, one of us has got to and that's all there is to it.

Molly: Mr. Bullock, there's a hansom cab driver waiting to see you in the kitchen.

Alexander Bullock: What's he want?

Molly: He wants $50 and his horse.

Alexander Bullock: What horse?

Molly: The one Miss Irene rode up the front steps last night.

Alexander Bullock: Where is his horse? I haven't got it!

Molly: It's in the library, where Miss Irene left it.

Angelica Bullock: What happened, what did you say to Carlo?

Alexander Bullock: I said goodbye.

Angelica Bullock: Did he go?

Alexander Bullock: Yes he left very hurriedly through the side window

Alexander Bullock: [to Carlo] Why don't you stop imitating a gorilla and start imitating a man?