Usher Quotes in King Kong (1933)

Theatre Patron: I can't sit so close to the screen; it hurts my eyes.

Usher: This isn't a moving picture, ma'am.

Theatre Patron: What? But Mr. Denham makes those pictures with those darling lions and tigers and things.

Usher: This is more in the nature of a personal appearance, ma'am.

Theatre Patron: Well I never... thought I was gonna see something.

Captain Bart the Pirate: You know, David Hasselhoff was a great artist.

Usher: Excuse me, sir. You folks have to leave.

Captain Bart the Pirate: What?

[Pulls out sword]

Captain Bart the Pirate: Say that again, if you dare!

Usher: [More assertive] You folks have to leave.

Captain Bart the Pirate: [pauses, then sobs] Okay.

[the pirates leave the theatre as the Usher continues to sweep the floor]

Usher: Bride or groom, sir?

Barrow, Edward's Butler: Just a guest.

Usher: Mr. Fellowes, uh, is there anything wrong with your seat?

Lloyd: [thinking] Yeah, it's facing the stage!

[first lines]

Usher: Curtains going up! Curtains going... up! Curtains going up!

Lloyd: [voiceover] A big Broadway opening. Everybody who's anybody in New York is inside this theater tonight. Everybody but one man. This man - ME!

Usher: Oh, I'm sorry. We don't let any more mice in here. They've been exploding all over the place.

Usher: [to Mr. McGree] Oh, sorry, Mantovani's down the block.

Mr. McGree: I'm hep, Daddy-o. I'm into the Ramones.

Willard Mims: Would I save my own skin and leave my wife here?

Usher: I think you would.

Usher: I'm gonna have me a place someday. I thought about it, I thought about it a lot. A man should have somethin' of his own, somethin' to belong to, to be proud of.

Pat Brennan: And you think you'll get it this way.

Usher: Sometimes you don't have a choice.

Pat Brennan: Don't you?

Usher: We don't get many young people here these days. They, they seem to prefer the pictures. Old Tim Kelly there, he, he was a great one for the pictures, until they started talking. So now he comes here for his nap.