What a Way to Go! (1964)

Dick Van Dyke: Edgar Hopper

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Quotes 

• Leonard 'Lennie' Crawley : What are you, an orthodox coward?

  Edgar Hopper : No, Lenny. I just believe in passive resistance.

  Leonard 'Lennie' Crawley : Oh, a Mahatma Hopper, I presume?

  Edgar Hopper : No, as a matter of fact, Gandhi and I both got it from this guy - Henry Thoreau.

• Edgar Hopper : [Speaking through a megaphone]  Folks, don't crawl to Crawley. Hop, hop, hop to Hoppers.

• Louisa May Foster : [Having swum out to Edgar in his fishing boat]  Imagine finding you here. I just happened to be swimming by.

  Edgar Hopper : Well, you scared the fish away.

  Louisa May Foster : You could pull me in.

• Edgar Hopper : Oh, Louisa. I'll make you happy. I'll never work hard. I'll never make good, I swear it.

• Louisa May Foster : What's the matter, darling?

  Edgar Hopper : Oh, nothing. I, I think I'll go down to the store for a little while this afternoon.

  Louisa May Foster : But you were there just 10 days ago.

  Edgar Hopper : You know, it's the end of summer. People come from vacation. Somebody might want something.

• Edgar Hopper : [Through a megaphone]  Hop, hop, hop, you shoppers. Hop to Hoppers.

• Edgar Hopper : [On the phone]  What is with our order on the Mother Goose Atomic Disintegrator kit?

• Edgar Hopper : [Gesturing from his simple cabin to the town]  Louisa, you mean you'd take this instead of all that? But, Louisa, I've got nothing. I'll... I'll always have nothing. I'll always be nothing.

  Louisa May Foster : Edgar, that's what I want - nothing. To quote me and not Thoreau, I love you.

• Edgar Hopper : What's that camera for?

  Leonard 'Lennie' Crawley : I'm doing a documentary on slum conditions in Crawleyville.

• Louisa May Foster : Edgar, it's Christmas.

  Edgar Hopper : Yes, and Christmas is business - big business.

• Louisa May Foster : Darling, I checked the hotels in Rome and I have the reservations for our vacation.

  Edgar Hopper : I'm sorry, honey - that'll have to wait 'til next year.

  Louisa May Foster : Next year?

  Edgar Hopper : Yes, next year. In the meantime, get yourself a couple of art books and a box of spaghetti.

• Edgar Hopper : [Reading out loud as he types on a typewriter]  Our musical mop, which plays "Let Me Call You Sweetheart, I'm in Love with you," is a marketing failure. Get something happy like "Stars and Stripes Forever" to guarantee musical mop-up.