Essie Carmichael Quotes in You Can't Take It with You (1938)

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Essie Carmichael Quotes:

  • Essie Carmichael: I'll get in my dancing clothes and be right down.

    Boris Kolenkhov: Aw, my pavlova, you are like a beautiful swan.

    [Essie exits]

    Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Is she making any progress, Kolenkhov?

    Boris Kolenkhov: Confidentially, she stinks.

    Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: As long as she's having fun.

  • Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby: [to Alice] If you had any sense, young woman, you'd stay where you belong and stop being ambitious.

    Essie Carmichael: Shall I sock her, Alice?

  • Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: If it's illegal to manufacture fireworks without a permit, then I guess we're guilty of that too, because we've been doing it a long time.

    Penny Sycamore: I don't feel guilty, do you, Essie?

    Essie Carmichael: No.

  • Rheba: Grandpa go to the graduation exercises today?

    Essie Carmichael: Guess so.

    Rheba: I wonder how many people Grandpa's going to bring home for dinner tonight.

    Essie Carmichael: I don't know, it all depends if he goes walking in a park.

    Rheba: Well let him bring them, I'll be ready for them.

  • Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent: [to Martin] Our records show you owe back income tax for 14 years.

    Ed Carmichael: Hey wait a minute, mister, that's too far back, that's outlawed ain't it?

    Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent: What's your name?

    Ed Carmichael: What difference does that make?

    Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent: You ever file a tax return?

    Ed Carmichael: No sir.

    Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent: What was your income last year?

    Ed Carmichael: I don't know, about $50, wasn't it, Essie?

    Essie Carmichael: I don't know.

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