Topsy-Turvy Quotes
Lucy Gilbert (Kitty): I should rather like to be an actor, upon the stage.
Gilbert: An actor?
Lucy Gilbert (Kitty): Yes. Wouldn't it be wondrous if perfectly commonplace people gave each other a round of applause at the end of the day? [she claps enthusiastically]
Lucy Gilbert (Kitty): Well done, Kitty! Well done!
Gilbert: An actor?
Lucy Gilbert (Kitty): Yes. Wouldn't it be wondrous if perfectly commonplace people gave each other a round of applause at the end of the day? [she claps enthusiastically]
Lucy Gilbert (Kitty): Well done, Kitty! Well done!
Movie: Topsy-Turvy
[Barker phones Gilbert with the returns from the previous evening, speaking in code]
Richard Barker: U, then a U, plus 10 shillings and sixpence!
Gilbert: Can you repeat that, please?
Richard Barker: Yes: U, U!
Gilbert: So that's U for udder, U for udder, plus ten shillings and sixpence!
Richard Barker: Yes!
Gilbert: So you have two udders, Barker?
Richard Barker: Uh, yes!
Gilbert: I always suspected as much!
Richard Barker: [laughs]
Richard Barker: U, then a U, plus 10 shillings and sixpence!
Gilbert: Can you repeat that, please?
Richard Barker: Yes: U, U!
Gilbert: So that's U for udder, U for udder, plus ten shillings and sixpence!
Richard Barker: Yes!
Gilbert: So you have two udders, Barker?
Richard Barker: Uh, yes!
Gilbert: I always suspected as much!
Richard Barker: [laughs]
Movie: Topsy-Turvy
Gilbert's Father: Am I to understand, sir, that you have been in communication with your mother?
Gilbert: No, Father, not for some considerable time, I'm glad to say.
Gilbert's Father: You are a liar, sir.
Gilbert: No, sir. I can assure you, Papa, that the very last person with whom I wish to have any communication at all is your estranged wife, the vicious woman who bore me into this ridiculous world.
Gilbert's Father: How dare you, sir? Have you no respect?
Gilbert: Don't misunderstand me, Father. Nobody respects her more than I do, and I can't stand the woman.
Gilbert: No, Father, not for some considerable time, I'm glad to say.
Gilbert's Father: You are a liar, sir.
Gilbert: No, sir. I can assure you, Papa, that the very last person with whom I wish to have any communication at all is your estranged wife, the vicious woman who bore me into this ridiculous world.
Gilbert's Father: How dare you, sir? Have you no respect?
Gilbert: Don't misunderstand me, Father. Nobody respects her more than I do, and I can't stand the woman.
Movie: Topsy-Turvy
Jessie Bond: [about her kimono] It's shapeless.
Madame Leon: Yes, Miss Bond, it is shapeless. Japanese ladies are most shapeless.
Madame Leon: Yes, Miss Bond, it is shapeless. Japanese ladies are most shapeless.
Movie: Topsy-Turvy
Sullivan: [proposing a toast] To the Savoy Hotel.
Richard D'Oyly Carte: The Savoy Hotel.
Sullivan: With its seventy bathrooms.
Richard D'Oyly Carte: The builder was much bemused. What's the point of having a bathroom to every bedroom? Who's going to be staying there, amphibians?
Richard D'Oyly Carte: The Savoy Hotel.
Sullivan: With its seventy bathrooms.
Richard D'Oyly Carte: The builder was much bemused. What's the point of having a bathroom to every bedroom? Who's going to be staying there, amphibians?
Movie: Topsy-Turvy