Playmates (1941)
May Robson: Grandma Kyser
Quotes
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Mrs. Penelope Pennypacker : [to John Barrymore] Do sit down.
Grandma Kyser : My, my! Have an accident?
John Barrymore : No, thanks. I just had one.
[hollers as he sits down]
Mrs. Penelope Pennypacker : Oh, he must have sprained his back! I hope I have some liniments in the house!
Grandma Kyser : Have you ever tried rubbing alcohol?
John Barrymore : Not since prohibition.
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Kay Kyser : This is my grandmother from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Grandma, Mr. John Barrymore.
Grandma Kyser : How do you do, Mr. Barrymore?
John Barrymore : My dear, dear lady. I am honored to meet the glorious fountainhead from which spring this sparkling brook of wit, your grandson, came.
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Kay Kyser : I think I better stick to comedy.
John Barrymore : The line between comedy and tragedy is thinner than a hair. When you play the Professor of the College of Musical Knowledge, that is comedy. When you play Hamlet or Macbeth, that, me dear lad, is tragedy.
Kay Kyser : That's what I'm afraid of.
Grandma Kyser : Oh, Kay, don't be so namby-pamby! One would think you'd never been on the stage before.
Kay Kyser : Yes, but, Shakespeare!
Grandma Kyser : Acting is acting!