Bing Crosby movie quotes

“He was an average guy who could carry a tune.”

Bing Crosby

“You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.”
Bing Crosby

- Phil Davis: How much is "wow"?
- Bob Wallace: It's right in between, uh, between "ouch" and "boing".
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis
Bing Crosby - Bob Wallace

“- Phil Davis: All right, they didn't go to college. They didn't go to Smith.
- Bob Wallace: Go to Smith? She couldn't even spell it.”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis
Bing Crosby - Bob Wallace

“- Phil Davis: My dear partner, when what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left.
- Bob Wallace: When I figure out what that means, I’ll come up with a crushing reply.”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis
Bing Crosby - Bob Wallace

“A singer like Sinatra comes along once in a lifetime. Why did it have to be my lifetime?”
Bing Crosby On Frank Sinatra

“Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over quite an unbelievable term of years.”
Bing Crosby

“There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.”
Bing Crosby

“There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.”
Bing Crosby On Bob Hope

“You can't learn anything when you're talking.”
Bing Crosby

“- Caroline Lord: Dexter, are you ever going to get married again?
- C. K. Dexter-Haven: Sure I am, I'm just waiting for you to grow up.
- Caroline Lord: Oh Dexter, for you I'll hurry.
- C. K. Dexter-Haven: You're gonna have to.”
Lydia Reed - Caroline Lord
Bing Crosby - C. K. Dexter-Haven

“- Tracy Lord: I'm such an unholy mess of a girl.
- C. K. Dexter-Haven: Oh, come on, that's not even good conversation, Tracy.”
Grace Kelly - Tracy Lord
Bing Crosby - C. K. Dexter-Haven

“- Father Chuck O'Malley: And if you ever need anything, no matter what it is or wherever you happen to be...
- Sister Mary Benedict: Yes, I know. I just dial O for O'Malley.”
Bing Crosby - Father Chuck O'Malley
Ingrid Bergman - Sister Mary Benedict

“- Father Chuck O'Malley: There's another sense, you know, Sister.
- Sister Mary Benedict: Oh, don't tell me.
- Father Chuck O'Malley: Yes, sense enough to know when to leave.”
Bing Crosby - Father Chuck O'Malley
Ingrid Bergman - Sister Mary Benedict

“While you sleepyheads are in that hay, I'll be dancing! I'm gonna be dancing with a sun-kissed baby. And I'm on my way, here's my beret, I'm going Hollywood!”

Bing Crosby - Bill Williams

“- Ted Hanover: I like it here... with you and Linda.
- Jim Hardy: And we love having you. When are you leaving?”
Fred Astaire - Ted Hanover
Bing Crosby - Jim Hardy

“- Phil Davis: How can a guy that ugly have the nerve to have sisters?
- Bob Wallace: Very brave parents, I guess.”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis
Bing Crosby - Bob Wallace

- Orville "Turkey" Jackson: What did you sell him?
- Jeff Peters: I want you to keep very calm now. Don't get excited.
- Orville "Turkey" Jackson: What did you sell him?
- Jeff Peters: You.

Bob Hope - Orville "Turkey" Jackson
Bing Crosby - Jeff Peters

“- Jim Hardy: Were you happy?
- Linda Mason: Yes.
- Jim Hardy: Then your father was a very successful man.”
Bing Crosby - Jim Hardy
Marjorie Reynolds - Linda Mason

“- Bob Wallace: How do you do?
- Doris: Mutual, I'm sure.”
Bing Crosby - Bob Wallace
Barrie Chase - Doris Lenz

- Orville "Turkey" Jackson: The dead have a way of coming back.
- Jeff Peters: Get out, when they're dead they're dead.
Bob Hope - Orville "Turkey" Jackson
Bing Crosby - Jeff Peters

“You seem to think the world is just some sort of a three-ring circus, and all you've got to do is to run around and have fun.”
Bing Crosby - Joshua "Josh" Mallon V