Kentaro Moto Quotes in Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)

Kentaro Moto: Half the world spends its time laughing at the other half, and both are fools.

Bob Hitchings: Now I know who you are! You're the Japanese Sandman.

Kentaro Moto: [shakes head] Strange people, these Americans.

Bob Hitchings: Stanford, '34.

Kentaro Moto: Stanford, '21; honorary member.

Bob Hitchings: What do you know about that! Moto, '21, let's see... oh, I remember reading about you. You broke a pole-vault record, didn't you?

Kentaro Moto: Now I would only break the pole.

Bob Hitchings: Are you hurt?

Kentaro Moto: No, thank you. Only a slight mishap.

Bob Hitchings: Gee, I thought sure we were gonna kill somebody.

Kentaro Moto: Mr. Moto is a very difficult fellow to kill.

Lee Chan: Oh, Mr. Moto?

Kentaro Moto: Yes, Lee?

Lee Chan: I though you would like to know I got a letter from Pop yesterday.

Kentaro Moto: Oh, you did?

Lee Chan: Mm-hmm. He sent his best to you.

Kentaro Moto: Thank you. And, uh, how is your honorable father enjoying his homelife in beautiful Honolulu?

Lee Chan: He seems fine, but he kind of worries about me. Y'see, I'm really supposed to be studying art here at the university... but gosh, I want to be a detective!

Kentaro Moto: [chuckles] I understand. My parents wanted me to be an acrobat.

Lieutenant Riggs: A sock in the eye ain't homicide. Maybe his ticker went bad on him. Who knows?

Kentaro Moto: No one... except the coroner.

Kentaro Moto: There is no situation that science and skill cannot master.

Kentaro Moto: To recognize one's faults requires intelligence; to admit them requires courage.

Kentaro Moto: Much information can be obtained from tongues loosened in anger.

Kentaro Moto: [examining the dead body] This is not suicide Mr. Riggs.

[dryly]

Kentaro Moto: It's most unusual to shoot oneself in the back and without a gun.

Nick Crowder: Who pulled the strings to get this fight on tonight?

Kentaro Moto: I plead guilty, Mr. Crowder. You see, some people save strings; I pull them.

Twister McGurk: Hey, Mr. Moto! Indemnify me for these mugs!

Kentaro Moto: Please release him, Colonel. He is my assistant... self-appointed.

Kentaro Moto: The art of professional wrestling consists of two parts groan, two parts acting, and but one little part of skill.

Kentaro Moto: [noticing the intercom is switched on] Is this a private conversation or are we broadcasting?

Twister McGurk: [amazed by Moto's martial arts abilities] If you was a pro, I could never get to be world champion.

Kentaro Moto: You may depend on me retaining my amateur status.

Twister McGurk: [in awe of judo techniques] Hey, I've seen everything, but a little shrimp like you throwing The Sailor gets me!

Kentaro Moto: What I've used is simple, but it has served me well on many occasions.

Capt. Dahlen: [as Moto lays in pain on a gurney] Well, Mr. Moto, you picked a bad time to get afflicted.

Kentaro Moto: [Marr sadistically presses his foot on Moto's appendix] Unfortunately we cannot select a time for our afflictions.

Kentaro Moto: [to Twister] You can obtain the confidence of criminals when one is branded a criminal.

Kentaro Moto: You've been a great help, and I want to thank you.

Twister McGurk: I wanna thank you too, pal. That hold yuh showed me I'm gonna keep in my wretlin' "prepatory."

Joan Castle: Mr. Moto!

Kentaro Moto: Good evening, everybody.

Joan Castle: He's a detective. He's come here to arrest my father. You can't take him! He was framed! Please you promise me to protect us until dad's prove innocent.

Kentaro Moto: Don't be so alarmed. Moto was only an impersonation. Very convenient for the moment.

Joan Castle: I - I don't understand.

Grant: Just a penny-ante gangster playin' detective.

[Joan looked up the newspaper of San Juan Tribune, "Governor Slain by Bogus Mr. Moto! Notorious Killer Shimura and Accomplice Make Sensational Escape". They broke out of jail and resisting arrest]

Joan Castle: Shimura. You murdered the Governor. It was you, you framed my father. Now we can go back to San Juan. This proves dad innocent.

Grant: Sure, sure. Now you go back to your cabin and looked after that fever. I'll take care of this.

Joan Castle: But we can't waste anytime.

Grant: Bill, take her back to her cabin.