Champagne for Caesar (1950)
Vincent Price: Burnbridge Waters
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Quotes
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Burnbridge Waters : I now believe that we have a Frankenstein on our hands, and a very well-informed Frankenstein. He must be stopped!
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[Burnbridge Waters is interviewing Beauregard Bottomley for a job]
Burnbridge Waters : I am thinking of putting on the market an all-purpose cake of soap that will also be used to clean teeth.
Beauregard Bottomley : I see, sort of
[laughs]
Beauregard Bottomley : sort of foam at the mouth approach, eh?
[laughs]
Burnbridge Waters : [not amused at all] You would have started tomorrow morning.
Beauregard Bottomley : That would have been fine, but aren't we using rather a strange tense - would have?
Burnbridge Waters : No sir, we are not.
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Burnbridge Waters : I have an idea. I want to find what the average man thinks of it. Then when we've found out what he thinks of it, we'll change his thinking.
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Burnbridge Waters : I loathe humor and you are humorous.
Beauregard Bottomley : Well, it was just a pleasantry designed to...
Executive #2 : Mr Waters hates pleasantries, I suppose I should have told you.
Beauregard Bottomley : Oh, well I'm sorry to have offended you mr Waters, it was unintentional and shan't occur again.
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Burnbridge Waters : How DARE you fall in love on my time. This is dishonest, treacherous and UN-american.
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[Burnbridge Waters is attempting to dissuade Beauregard Bottomley from taking his winnings]
Burnbridge Waters : Oh, don't thank me, Beauregard. Just stay as you are. Walk out of here into the sunshine of a carefree world, wise in the knowledge that I have bestowed on you. For it is my sincere conviction that the only way to be happy is to be poor.
Beauregard Bottomley : My dear Burnbridge, I see your point. I am about to make you the happiest man in the world.
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Burnbridge Waters : When people fall in love, they often act a little foolishly
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Burnbridge Waters : Beauregard is looking for perfection in a woman too. Well, my dear friends, I know of such a perfect creature. Her name is Flame O'Neill. She's a corn-fed Mata Hari, her mind is as sharp as a razor's edge. She has everything. Except a heart.