Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

Adolphe Menjou: Nicolai Nicoleff

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• Nicoleff : This place is very good for my liver.

• Nicoleff : Well, when did I never pay you?

  Schultz : The same time you never paid everybody else.

• Nicoleff : Hurry, I help you dress quick.

  Winny : Remind me after the show to slap your face.

  Nicoleff : Nicoleff never forgets!

• Mrs. Prentiss : Gentlemen, the show is off. I can't afford it!

  Nicolai Nicoleff : [histrionically]  Madam, with those few words, you have broken my heart.

  Schultz : I don't feel so good myself.

• Nicoleff : The orchestra. Why is it not playing? How do you expect the soul of Nicoleff to expand without music?

• Nicoleff : Taste it! I order vintage champagne. What do I get? Vinegar - filled with gas. Taste it!

• Louis Lamson : Mrs. Matilda Prentiss just arrived, you know, the widow of H.P. Prentiss, the flypaper king.

  Nicoleff : Blatantly, vulgarly rich.

  Louis Lamson : Disgustingly rich - and she puts on a musical show here every season. A benefit for the milk fund.

  Nicoleff : I don't like milk.

• Nicoleff : What? That is dishonest! But I do it.

• Betty Hawes : Two-thirds and two-thirds is four-thirds in any country.

  Schultz : Well, that's the way I figure it. And, personally, I wouldn't play ball unless I get one-half of the fourth third.

  Nicoleff : You see that I get 19% of what you get for the costumes and scenery. That's all you got to worry about. The extra third was my idea!

  Betty Hawes : I get one-third of that extra third or I go right to Mrs. Prentiss and spill.

  Schultz : Now, that's right. That's fair enough. Give her one-third of the fourth third that I get half of and then split the rest with me. It's easy. You don't have to even figure it.

  Nicoleff : Thieves! Bandits! Cutthroats!

  Schultz : I'll show you who's a cutthroat, you swindler!

  Nicoleff : You cannot insult Nicoleff!

  Betty Hawes : The split goes three ways and don't you forget it!

• Nicoleff : Ah, Madam is glorious. Nicoleff lives again!

  Mrs. Prentiss : Stop chewing on my fingers!

• Nicoleff : Hurry, my children, the music approaches the cue.

• Nicoleff : This has been the most pleasant engagement of my career. May I present to you a tiny token of my esteem?

  Mrs. Prentiss : Well, what is it?

  Nicoleff : A priceless solid silver fruit dish, given to me by the Grand Duke Alexis, after seeing my production of "Midsummer Night's Dream" with an all-Eskimo cast.