Harry Houdini Quotes in Houdini (1953)

Harry Houdini: I hadn't prepared anything for tonight, but perhaps I have something that will amuse you. So if you'll get a couple of broomsticks, I'll get my wife - and we'll see what we can do.

Harry Houdini: It'll be the most dangerous thing I've ever done.

Bess Houdini: And the most dangerous!

Harry Houdini: Bess, people aren't going to stand in line and watch me pull rabbits out of a hat.

Bess Houdini: Why? Why must every act you do be flirting with death?

Harry Houdini: Because it's the only act that'll hold an audience spellbound. People fall asleep at the opera, but they stay wide awake at the bullfights because ther's one man defying death down in that arena. You take this out of my act and I'm nothing!

Bess Houdini: You keep it in and we're both nothing!

Harry Houdini: Cover your ass!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Cover my what?

Harry Houdini: Anything can be faked by anyone.

Harry Houdini: Never try to fool children. They expect nothing and therefore see everything.

Benji McGarvie: Name's Benji, Mr. Houdini.

Harry Houdini: "Benji, Mr. Houdini"? Well, I'd drop the second part. It's already spoken for. Just plain Benji sounds good to me.

Benji McGarvie: "Just plain Benji" isn't much of a name either.

Harry Houdini: Well, we have a comedienne here, Mr. Sugarman. Maybe she can do the warm-up.

Mary McGarvie: Hard graft. If I fail, we starve.

Harry Houdini: Well, I fail, and I die.

Harry Houdini: This experiment is nothing less than a battle between love and death, gentlemen. Is death final, or will love triumph? Place your bets, please.

Mary McGarvie: I don't much like me.

Harry Houdini: Well, I do.