Mr. Jolly Quotes in Teacher's Pet (2004)

Mr. Jolly: AAAAAIE. It's a monster. It's hideous.

Pretty Boy: It's just your reflection.

Mr. Jolly: Oh... AAAAAIE.

Pretty Boy: Well, I wanna be a rooster in a hen house, but I just don't see it happening. Isn't that right, Mr. Jolly?

Mr. Jolly: It's too early in the morning for hypothetical discussion, but since you brought it up... you? A rooster?

Pretty Boy: Florida, Schmorida! It's just Jersey with palm trees!

Mr. Jolly: Well, I suppose most people don't arrive by garbage truck.

Ivan Krank: Oh, haven't you heard, my good man? Nature is dead! Science is king!

Mr. Jolly: Oh, that is just wrong on so many levels.

Mr. Jolly: Outside? But I'm an indoor cat. I'm afraid of the outside.

[whimpers]

William Seward: Madam, if the rebels surrendered next week, would you, at the end of this month, want Congressman Burton to vote for the Thirteenth Amendment?

Mrs. Jolly: If that was how it was, no more war an' all, I reckon Mr Jolly much prefer not to have Congress pass the Amendment.

William Seward: And... why is that?

Mr. Jolly: [looks at Seward in surprise] Niggers.

Mrs. Jolly: If he don't have to let some Alabama coon come up from Missouri and steal his chickens and his job, we'd much prefer that.

[Seward takes Mrs Jolly's letter, walks over to Lincoln and puts it on his desk]

William Seward: [quietly] The people. I begin to see why you're in such a great hurry to put it through.