Skidoo (1968)

Jackie Gleason: Tony Banks

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Quotes 

• Stash : Violence is the sign language of the inarticulate.

  Tony Banks : What is he talkin' about? Do you know what he's talkin' about?

• Harry : Tony, it looks like one of them hippies!

  Tony Banks : That's right... and no lousy hippie is gonna make it with my daughter.

  Darlene : Daddy, that's not what he meant. I just met him in town.

  Tony Banks : You know what he meant. He wanted to... .

  Darlene : Daddy, I don't think *he* even know what he wants.

  Tony Banks : What is he, a faggot?

• Tony Banks : [hallucinating on LSD]  Mathematics! I see mathematics! She's got my ears! She's got my ears! She's got my ears!

• Leech : I'm a recidivist.

  Tony Banks : What's that?

  Leech : Habitual criminal. Been comin' here on and off since '51.

• Tony Banks : The only kid in the cell block with his own personal stationery.

• Tony Banks : [to Stash, dressed in hippie garb]  Who's your tailor, Sittin' Bull?

  Stash : Once more, man?

  Tony Banks : You heard me. Why do you go around dressed like that for?

  Stash : Hey, we can't all be undertakers, man.

  Tony Banks : Don't push me, punk.

• Darlene : [to her father]  Stash is only interested in nothing. He isn't taken in by our false values.

  Tony Banks : [to Stash]  So how come you're drivin' a beat-up Rolls Royce? Why aren't you drivin' a beat-up Ford?

• Tony Banks : You're too heavy!

• Tony Banks : Let's get the hardware!

• Tony Banks : No daughter of mine is going to marry any hippie.

  Flo : Who's talking about marriage, for heaven's sake?

  Darlene : Hippies don't even get married!

• Tony Banks : What the hell do I care? I'm not the suspicious kind. If I was, would I have married a dame that's three months pregnant?

• Hechy : God summons you. Tonight.

  Tony Banks : What is this? A gag?

• Tony Banks : Nobody can be arrested, tried and sentenced that fast. It's impossible!

  Hechy : Everything's possible when God wants it.

• Hechy : God has a little job for you, Tony.

  Tony Banks : Oh, no, no. Nothin' doin'. I'm retired. He let me retire 17 years ago when he let me marry Flo. He released me from his jurisdiction.

  Hechy : You're never out of his jurisdiction.

  Tony Banks : He even gave me my new name. He said, "You wanna go legit? Okay. What's more legit than "Banks". That's how I got my name: Tony Banks.

• Tony Banks : Where's God? Does anybody around here know where God is?