Some Like It Hot (1959)

Nehemiah Persoff: Little Bonaparte

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• Mulligan : What happened here?

  Little Bonaparte : [referring to Spats and his thugs]  There was something in that cake that didn't agree with them.

  Mulligan : My compliments to the chef. Nobody leaves this room until I get the recipe.

  Little Bonaparte : You wanna make a federal case of it?

  Mulligan : [grabs the speaker of Little Bonaparte's hearing aid]  Yeah!

• Little Bonaparte : [thick Italian accent]  Thank you, fellow opera-lovers. It's been ten years since I elected myself president of dis organization... an' if I say so myself, you made duh right choice. Let's look at duh record: In duh lass fissel year we made a hundred an' twelve million dollars before taxes... only we didn't pay no taxes!

• Little Bonaparte : I'm lookin' around for somebody to fill my shoes. I've been considerin' several candidates. For instance, there's a certain party from Chicago, South Side Chapter.

  [angrily] 

  Little Bonaparte : Now, some people say he's gotten a little too big for his spats!

  [calmly] 

  Little Bonaparte : But l say he's a man who'll go far.

  [angrily] 

  Little Bonaparte : Some people say he's gone too far!

  [calmly] 

  Little Bonaparte : But l say, you can't keep a good man down. Of course, he's still got a lot to learn. The big noise he made on St Valentine's Day, that wasn't very good for public relations. And lettin' them two witnesses get away. That sure was careless.

  Spats Colombo : Don't worry about those two. They're as good as dead. l almost caught up with them today.

  Little Bonaparte : You mean you let 'em get away twice? Some people would say that's real sloppy. But l say: to err is human, to forgive divine. And just to show you what l think of you, Spats, the boys told me you was gonna have a birthday. So we baked you a little cake.