Riskin

Famous quotes containing the word riskin:

    Ellie: Aren’t you going to give me a little credit?
    Peter: What for?
    Ellie: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
    Peter: Why didn’t you take off all your clothes. You could have stopped forty cars.
    Ellie: Ooohh, I’ll remember that when we need forty cars.
    —Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    Grandpa: Penny, why don’t you write a play about ism-mania?
    Penny: Ism-mania?
    Grandpa: Yeah, sure. You know, communism, fascism, voodooism. Everybody’s got an ism these days.
    Penny: It sounds like an itch or something.
    Grandpa: It’s just as catching. When things go a little bad these days, you go out and get yourself an ism and you’re in business.
    —Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    Henderson: What about Congress and the Supreme Court and the President? We got to pay them, don’t we?
    Grandpa: Not with my money, no sir.
    —Robert Riskin (1897–1955)