Critic's Choice (1963)
Bob Hope: Parker Ballantine
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Quotes
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John Ballantine : So, the trouble must be psychosomatic. Nonorganic, therefore psychically motivated.
Parker Ballantine : Will you stop talking like a child?
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Parker Ballantine : Actors can act when they're drunk. Playwrights can playwright when they're drunk, can't they? I say a critic can critic when he's drunk.
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Parker Ballantine : That's the trouble with this country. Everybody wants to be a writer. Nobody wants to be a plumber and there's more money in it.
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Angela Ballantine : Well, William Shakespeare once wrote a play in five days.
Parker Ballantine : Yeah, well, writing a play in five days is nothing. Having it run five days is the trick.
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Angela Ballantine : You're just a self-satisfied male chauvinist who thinks I should keep my head in a broom closet.
Parker Ballantine : Not your head, but this play, yes.
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Ivy London : Oh, I miss you, Parker.
Parker Ballantine : I miss you too. On my masochistic days.
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Ivy London : [to John] But you're getting so big.
[to Parker]
Ivy London : What have you been feeding him?
Parker Ballantine : Oh, we don't feed him. Angie grabs one end, I grab the other, and we pull.
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Dion Kapakos : I'll be waiting in the car, Angie.
Parker Ballantine : If it's a compact, you'll never get your head in.