Stan Laurel Quotes in Chaplin (1992)

Fred Karno: [on the train; remembering Charlie's early days in the theatre] You took a tail suit out of the wardrobe, tryin' to be a gent. Trying to impress that young dancer... Hetty, wasn't that 'er name?

Charlie Chaplin: Hetty Kelly.

Fred Karno: Yeah, I could see in your eyes you fancied her.

[chuckles to himself]

Fred Karno: Hmm. Sad.

Charlie Chaplin: Yes, I know all about it, Fred. She got married. Sent me a lovely note. I brought it with me; it's in my baggage.

Fred Karno: [looking worried] Oh, Charlie, Charlie. Charlie, don't you know? Has nobody told you? She's gone. The flu epidemic after the war carried her away.

[Charlie reels, unable to speak]

Fred Karno: I thought someone must have told you, must have written. Didn't nobody?

[Charlie leaves the compartment and goes into the corridor, leaning against the wall and trying to collect himself]

Stan Laurel: [following him and fixing his tie] What do we do, Charlie?

Charlie Chaplin: [sadly] Smile.

[they exit the train and are immediately swarmed by a crowd of fans]

Trudy Harlan: You boys believe that Grant has a great future as an inventor, don't you?

Oliver Hardy: Well, I believe that Grant'll be an inventor of the first rank.

Stan Laurel: What's rank?

Oliver Hardy: You are! SHUT UP!

Stan Laurel: The harder they fall, the bigger I am!

Stan Laurel: [taking a book out of the bookcase] "Boswell's Life of Johnson." Gee, I bet that's interesting.

Oliver Hardy: Yeah, I remember that Jess Willard knocked him out. It sure was a hot day!

Stan Laurel: Gee, I'll have to read that.

Stan Laurel: I don't mind starvin' again.

Oliver Hardy: It's all right with me.

Stan Laurel: You know you can't keep an egg in two baskets. That's silly... unless you want to scramble them. I wouldn't be that stupid, you know. I knew a fella once that he had some money in the bank, and he wouldn't draw it out. And, you know what? He lost his job, and still he wouldn't draw it out. Then he starved to death - that killed him. And then he died, and after he was dead. A friend of his got all his money, and he drewed it out of the bank. and I could live happily ever after. Yes, sir!

Oliver Hardy: [with disgust] You make me sick!

Stan Laurel: Well, we've all got to live and learn, you know.

Oliver Hardy: Yeah, but you just live!