Be Big! (1931)

Oliver Hardy: Ollie

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Quotes 

• Oliver : Let's get together. There's nothing to getting a boot off. You don't have to drag me around the room. It's most embarrassing. Let's concentrate and use our brains, Rome wasn't built in a day. Remember the old adage, a task slowly done is surely done.

  Stanley : [Nods] 

  Oliver : Do you understand?

  Stanley : Sure, a cool head never won fair lady.

• Oliver : I'm a sick man, an awful sick man.

  Stanley : It sounds funny to me.

• [first lines] 

  Mrs. Hardy : Oh, Oliver, darling?

  Oliver : Yes, ducky lover?

  Mrs. Hardy : Hurry, honey bug, we'll miss our train.

  Oliver : I'm coming, angel, darling.

• Mrs. Hardy : Hurry up, honey, darling.

  Oliver : I'll be quicker than quick, snookums.

• Mrs. Hardy : Why, Oliver, what's the matter?

  Oliver : Oh, I feel faint. As light as a feather. Spots before my eyes. Oooo, it must be the excitement. Oooo-oooo.

  Mrs. Hardy : Oh, oh, there, dear. There. Don't let it get you. Be big!

• Oliver : What's the matter?

  Mrs. Hardy : Did you take a shower with your hat on?

  Oliver : I didn't want to get my hair wet.

• Oliver : [doorbell rings - to Stan]  Oooo! It's the wife. The towel for my head? Do something to help me!

• Oliver : You two girls go right along. Stan can stay here with me. I'll be feeling fine in the morning and we'll come down on the first train.

  Mrs. Laurel : Well, that certainly is big of you.

• Oliver : Don't stand there looking like a sphinx. Give me a hand!

• Stanley : What's the idea?

  Oliver : The gang is giving a stag party in our honor tonight.

  Stanley : Where? At the club?

  Oliver : Yes!

  Stanley : For us?

  Oliver : Certainly!

  Stanley : Well, you can't go.

  Oliver : Why?

  Stanley : You're sick. You're all in a heap.

  Oliver : That was only an excuse to get them out of the house!

  Stanley : Oh! Why didn't you tell me?

• Oliver : Why don't you do something to help me?

• Oliver : Now, just follow my plan - and see how easy, how *simple*, how free-from-care, everything will be. Now, I'll lie on the floor...

• Oliver : What could be worst?

  [doorbell rings] 

• Oliver : Will you get off of that bed and let me outta here.

• Stanley : What'll I do?

  Oliver : Be big!