Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Edward Everett Horton: Farnsworth

Quotes 

• Farnsworth : What Dr. Schlenna is trying to say is that we are using motion picture names exclusively...

  Eddie Cantor : 'Motion pi-'! I've been a picture star for years! Wouldn't you call *me* a name?

  Farnsworth : Oh, definitely - but not the kind I can put in lights.

• Eddie Cantor : Why don't you want me? Why?

  Farnsworth : Well, Mr. Cantor, to be brutally frank, you have the reputation of taking over everything you participate in.

• Farnsworth : [On the phone, posing as a fictitious Southern reporter for a non-existent newspaper]  Mr. Cantor, sir, this is Colonel Robert E. Jefferson of the Montgomery Post Gazette. What we all down here wants, from you all up there, is the complete story of your life, sir... Now, you begin right at the beginning, sir, and don't omit any of the details, no matter how boring they may be, sir. Yes, sir.

  Eddie Cantor : Fine! Well, Colonel, my ancestors crossed the Plains in the first covered wagon. If you ever saw my ancestors, you'd understand *why* the wagon was covered - huh, huh, huh!... Don't print that!