Telephone Operator Quotes in 1941 (1979)

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Telephone Operator Quotes:

  • Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Identify yourself!

    Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Captain Wild Bill Kelso, United States Army Air Corps. Where the hell am I?

    Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Barstow. Where are you coming from?

    Captain Wild Bill Kelso: San Francisco. Been chasing a Jap squadron for a day and a half. I lost 'em somewhere over Fresno.

    Telephone Operator: I'm from Moline, Illinois.

    Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Tough shit.

  • Telephone Operator: Due to the storm, all lines have been temporarily disconnected. Please try your call again later.

  • Telephone Operator: Hello, Mrs. Joan Crawford, Mr. Durante. No answer.

  • Telephone Operator: [on the telephone to Don in the lounge] Mr. Webber, please.

    Don: [aside to George] Are you in?

    George Webber: No, no.

    Don: [on the phone to the operator] Listen, kid, until otherwise instructed, Mr. Webber will be incomunnicado.

    Telephone Operator: Don, where is that?

    Don: About twenty miles due east, make a left turn.

    Telephone Operator: OK, thank you Don.

  • Telephone Operator: You have a collect call from,'THIS IS YOUR DICK, I'M IN AN ALLEY DOWNTOWN!'

  • Telephone operator: [Horatio picks up the phone receiver] Number please.

    Horatio Prim: Spooks!

    [runs over to Melody]

    Horatio Prim: That thing just talked to me!

  • Telephone Operator: Operator. May I help you?

    Alex Forrest: Operator, I've been trying to get 555-8129. 212? The recording says its been disconnected.

    Telephone Operator: Just a moment please.

    [pause]

    Telephone Operator: I'm sorry, the number's been changed to an unlisted number.

    Alex Forrest: Operator, this is a real emergency please. You need to give me that number.

    Telephone Operator: I'm sorry. We're not allowed to give out that information.

    Alex Forrest: Well *fuck you*!

    Telephone Operator: My place or yours?

    [Alex slams phone]

  • Matthew Bennell: [dials his phone] I'll get the police.

    Telephone Operator: [voice] Police.

    Matthew Bennell: Officer, I'd like to report four bodies in my backyard.

    Telephone Operator: Wait right there Mr. Bennell.

    Matthew Bennell: How do you know my name?

    Jack Bellicec: [Jack's eyes widen with fear] Hang up, Matthew.

    Matthew Bennell: [into the phone] I didn't tell you my name.

    Jack Bellicec: Hang up!

    Matthew Bennell: [hangs up the phone] I didn't tell them my name!

    Nancy Bellicec: That's because they're all part of it. They're all pods, all of them!

  • Telephone Operator: There is no 311 area code.

  • Mervin Q. Milgrim: Operator! Give me Alexander two two, two two!

    Telephone operator: The line is busy!

  • Mervin Q. Milgrim: [repeat several times] Get me Alexander 2222.

    Telephone operator: The line is busy.

  • Mervin Q. Milgrim: Hello! Give me Alexander 2222, please. Please give it to me. It's only over here on the other side of the street.

    Telephone operator: The line is busy. Number, please.

    Mervin Q. Milgrim: Alexander 2222!

    Telephone operator: I can't hear you.

    Mervin Q. Milgrim: Alexander 2222!

    Telephone operator: Louder, please.

    Mervin Q. Milgrim: If I talk any louder, I won't have to call them! They'll hear me!

    Telephone operator: I'm sorry, sir, but you are all wet.

    Mervin Q. Milgrim: Who's all wet? I'm all wet? Hold the line! Hold the line!

    [He picks up spritzer bottle and sprays it into the phone. The spritzer comes out on the other end of the phone line, all over the operator]

  • Telephone Operator: What are you trying to do, put the B on me?

    Hildegard Withers: I'm trying to put nothing on you. You have enough on already. Now, if you answer my questions, you can go right back to your artwork!

  • Hildegard Withers: Are you sure it was a man's voice?

    Telephone Operator: Well it ain't likely a woman'd be calling me baby, is it?

    Hildegard Withers: No, not so far downtown as this. Now, baby, I mean, eh, get the Chief Operator to trace that call. Tell her to report to Inspector Piper at Police Headquarters.

    [Pointing to the Telephone Operator's lipstick]

    Hildegard Withers: Oh, next time use a lighter shade. That's a little vulgar. Au revoir.

    Telephone Operator: Okay, Lydia Pinkham.

  • Telephone Operator: Say, what are you? A policewoman?

    Hildegard Withers: As far as it concerns you, I'm connected to the detective bureau... not very pleasantly... but connected still.

  • Telephone Operator: Mr. Alec Walker, calling Mrs. Alec Walker, Ritz Hotel, Paris. Mr. Walker's ready. Go ahead, please.

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