Climbing High (1938)

Alastair Sim: Max

Quotes 

• Patsey : Say, will you stop scribbling in that precious book of yours while I insult my best friend?

  Max : If you mean comrade Diana, I don't agree. She spurns money rightly. In the coming civilization, money as we know it will cease to exist.

• Max : [Looking at the face of model centaur for which he is posing]  Oh, do I really look like that?

  Patsey : What makes you think you've been posing for the face?

• Patsey : Why don't you get out of that chair and do some real work?

  Max : I'll get up out of this chair when the time comes and then you'll see a man of action. Ahhhh. A man of terror. The iron commissar.

• Patsey : You're supposed to be a man.

  Max : We don't recognize sex in the party.

  Patsey : Must be a dull party.

• Max : [Looking sad]  Lenin! I've betrayed you.

• Max : Look here, comrade Hamilton. I thought we discussed this matter of rent once and for all. Haven't I told you that rent is immoral?...

  Bit Part : [as Mr. Hamilton, the landlord]  And you're right, comrade, but my missus can't see it. "Pay up or get out," she said, the old c...

• Max : Week after week, you attend my meetings in Hyde Park, and now this. Didn't I promise to send your wife to a concentration camp?

  Bit Part : [as Mr. Hamilton, the landlord]  And I'm depending on it, comrade.

• Diana : [as she and Patsey confront Max]  Somebody's got to work.

  Max : Mmm. Ohhh, don't look at me. I don't believe in commerce. I'd sooner commit a crime.

  Patsey : [Gesturing toward her giant clay centaur sculpture]  Yeah, but what about my beautiful horse? I put everything I've got into him, including your face.

• Gibson : Isn't he magnificently revolting?

  Winnie : Yes, Mr. Gibson.

  Gibson : [as he pokes Max in the stomach]  Mmmm, flabby. Weak. Miserable. Bald.

  Max : I'm here to earn some of your hateful money, not to be beaten to a pulp.