Mischa Auer: Kolenkhov
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Quotes
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Boris Kolenkhov : I feel so good, life is running around inside of me like a squirrel!
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Essie Carmichael : I'll get in my dancing clothes and be right down.
Boris Kolenkhov : Aw, my pavlova, you are like a beautiful swan.
[Essie exits]
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : Is she making any progress, Kolenkhov?
Boris Kolenkhov : Confidentially, she stinks.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : As long as she's having fun.
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Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : Do you have any Russian stamps for me?
Boris Kolenkhov : No, nobody writes to me anymore. They are all dead.
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Alice Sycamore : We're going to the Monte Carlo ballet!
Boris Kolenkhov : ...The Monte Carlo ballet? It stinks!
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Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby : Mr. Kirby should have told you: he suffers from indigestion.
Anthony P. Kirby : Now, now, Miriam, it isn't as serious as all that.
Boris Kolenkhov : Perhaps it is not indigestion. Perhaps it is stomach *ulcers!*
Anthony P. Kirby : [looks at Kolenkhov with obvious indignation] Ulcers?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : Don't pay any attention to Mr. Kolenkhov. He's Russian, and the Russians are inclined to look on the dark side.
Boris Kolenkhov : All right, I'm Russian! A friend of mine - a Russian - *died* from stomach ulcers!
Alice Sycamore : Now Mr. Kolenkhov, Mr. Kirby has indigestion, and that's all.
Boris Kolenkhov : Alright fine, let him wait!
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : Oh, please folks, let's not discuss Mr. Kirby's ulcers.
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Rheba : Gee, Mr. Kolenkhov, isn't it exciting?
Boris Kolenkhov : Exciting? With you moving and the Grand Duchess out of a job? Ver do I eat?
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Boris Kolenkhov : Grandpa, I'm in time for dinner, no?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : You're in time for dinner, yes!
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Boris Kolenkhov : What is that?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : That's a picture of Mr. DiPinna. Penny painted it.
Boris Kolenkhov : It stinks!
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Donald : [Walking into a crowded jail cell] Home again!
Boris Kolenkhov : A lot like Siberia, only it stinks!
DePinna : It was fun being fingerprinted, wasn't it?
Ed Carmichael : Mr. Kirby didn't think so. It took three men to hold him down.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : Never a dull moment, that's what I say. Never a dull moment.
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Boris Kolenkhov : The perfect hobby should improve the body as well as the mind. The Romans were great people. Why? What was their hobby? Wrestling. In wrestling you must think quick with the mind and act quick with the body.
Anthony P. Kirby : Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, I-I agree with you. When I was young I was pretty good at it myself. Unfortunately as one grows older...
Boris Kolenkhov : Foolishness! Once a wrestler, you will never forget. I have not done it in six years, but I forget niet! Look:
[suddenly causes a minor scene by picking up Mr. Kirby over his shoulders in a wrestling move, spinning him around, and throwing him down on the floor while everyone scrambles to their feet in shock/confusion/assistance/etc]
Alice Sycamore : Sit down Mr. Kirby.
[while brushing him off]
Anthony P. Kirby : My glasses, where are my glasses?
Penny Sycamore : Here they are. Oh Mr. Kirby, they're broken.
Boris Kolenkhov : I am sorry, but when you wrestle again Mr. Kirby, you will of course not wear your glasses.
Anthony P. Kirby : [frustrated] I do not *intend* to wrestle again.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : That was very silly Kolenkhov, I'm sorry you did that. I'm sorry Mr. Kirby.
