Van Buren Quotes in Damn Yankees! (1958)

Rocky: It's not that I'm dumb, Benny!

Van Buren: Nobody said anything about your being dumb... exactly.

Van Buren: [singing] You've gotta have heart, / All you really need is heart./ When the odds are sayin' you'll never win /That's when the grin should start.

Van Buren: We didn't invite the press this morning, Gloria.

Gloria Thorpe: Aw Benny, you're very foolish to have this prejudice against me just because I'm a woman. My paper gives you as much space as the others do.

Van Buren: I only wondered why you got here so early.

Gloria Thorpe: I came down to see the naked men.

Van Buren: Where-ever there's smoke, there must be... somebody smoking.

Mary Smith: Don't you like this one either?

J.B. Ball: I do not. It looks like a salt shaker.

Van Buren: Well, we think its very recherché.

J.B. Ball: That's the trouble with it.

Van Buren: The bull of broad street... with a girl... in the sable-est sable coat they ever sabled!

Van Buren: Brute!