Danny Kaye movie quotes

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”
Danny Kaye

“In some ways you're far superior to my Cocker Spaniel.”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis

“The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!”
Danny Kaye - Hubert Hawkins

“Well, I'm more the 'I-don't-mind-pushing-my-best-friend-into-but-I'm-scared-stiff-when-I-get-anywhere-close-to-it-myselfing' kind.”

Danny Kaye - Phil Davis

“A jester unemployed is nobody's fool.”
Danny Kaye - Hubert Hawkins

- 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

“I am a wife-made man.”
Danny Kaye

- Griselda: I bring you a message from the princess.
- Hubert Hawkins: The royal princess?
- Griselda: Yes, she finds you most attractive and would like to meet you.
- Hubert Hawkins: Me?
- Griselda: She finds you passing fair, passing gracefully.
- Hubert Hawkins: Tell her "Thank you very much, but I'm just passing through”.
Mildred Natwick - Griselda
Danny Kaye - Hubert Hawkins

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on
it you can.”
Danny Kaye

“I want you to get married. I want you to have nine children. And if you only spend five minutes a day with each kid, that's forty-five minutes, and I'd at least have time to go out and get a massage or something.”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis

“- 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

“- King Roderick I: You spent some time in the Italian court?
- Hubert Hawkins: Why, yes. What better place to court Italians?”
Cecil Parker - King Roderick I
Danny Kaye - Hubert Hawkins

“Speak not of twigs when you look at an oak.”
Danny Kaye - Hubert Hawkins

“May all your Christmases be white. Merry Christmas!”

Danny Kaye - Phil Davis
Bob Wallace - Bob Wallace
Rosemary Clooney - Betty Haynes
Vera-Ellen - Judy Haynes

“- Phil Davis: We seem to be getting a little mixed up.
- Judy Haynes: Maybe it's the music.
- Phil Davis: Maybe it isn't only the music.”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis
Vera-Ellen - Judy Haynes

“Now the crooner is becoming the comic!”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis

“Caution is for popinjays and cockatoos!”
Danny Kaye - Hubert Hawkins

“I'm proud to recall that at no time at all and with no other recourses but my own resources, with firm application and determination... I made a fool of myself!”

Danny Kaye - Hubert Hawkins

“- Phil Davis: How can you stop an angry dog from biting you on Monday?
- Betty Haynes: That joke is old. The answer is to kill the dog on Sunday!
- Phil Davis: That's not the way to stop a dog from biting you on Monday!
- Betty Haynes: How would you bring the thing about?
- Phil Davis: Have the doggy's teeth pulled out!”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis
Rosemary Clooney - Betty Haynes