Hat Quotes

[J. M. Stovall]

I just heard this line in "It's a Big Country" (1951) and I thought it would be fun to start a thread of movie quotes about hats.

Newspaper Editor tells a reporter:
"Look official, wear a hat."

 

[Paisley]

"Nice hat." -Pirates of the Carribean

 

[irb]

I know, we've all seen it a hundred times or more, but I'm particularly fond of the line in Maltese Falcon (Bogart) when... Polehouse I believe? tells them all to "get your hats. Come on, get your hats." I just like the assumption that of course, even going down to the station you'd wear your hat.

 

[HadleyH]

Jimmy Cagney in GREAT GUY (1936)


"....my best friend gets hit by a streetcar...there's a Civil war in Spain...we have an earthquake in Japan.... and now you wear that hat? "

 

[Pilgrim]

Dean Martin, from "Style" in Robin and the Seven Hoods...

"...a hat's - not a hat - till it's tilted..."

 

[KY Gentleman]

"if I begin to die, please take this off my head. This is not how I wish to be remembered" - Hobson to Arthur while wearing a HUGE cowboy hat in the movie "Arthur".

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

"...you can have my girl but don't touch my hat."

lyric - Lyle Lovett

 

[KY Gentleman]

"You shouldn't fool with another mans hat!". - Jeff Bridges in "Wild Bill"

 

[Doh!]

"Take off your hat!" -- Judge to Curly in Disorder in the Court.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6q37n7GDCY

 

[Haversack]

From George Kaufman's one act play, If Men Played Cards as Women Do as excerpted in the 1942 Paramount studio satire/patriotic movie, Star Spangled Rhythm:

John: "Oh say! That's a new hat, isn't it?"

Bob: "Why, no---don't you remember? It's the one I got at Knox's in the Spring. Then when they began wearing the bands higher, I said to myself, why should I buy a new hat when I can have a little man in and get him to put on another band for me, just as easily as not? Do you like it?"

John: "Very attractive. I wonder how it would look on me?" (Takes it; starts to try it on, then smooth his hair before he finally puts it on. He looks at himself in the mirror; turns.) "What do you think?"

Bob: "Lovely! Makes your face look thinner."


In the movie, these roles are played by the Paramount actors they commonly used for 'tough-guy gangster' pictures.

Haversack.

 

[Feraud]

This is Papa Bear. Put out an APB for a male suspect, driving a... car of some sort, heading in the direction of, uh, you know, that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.
-Chief Wiggum

 

[irb]

Oh, also from Falling Down, "and now you're gonna die, wearing that stupid hat. How's it feel?"

 

[carter]

"You Can Leave Your Hat On" - penned by Randy Newman, covered by a plethora of other artists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGgvpjtq0w

 

[funneman]

Miller's Crossing

Verna: What're you chewin' over?
Tom Reagan: Dream I had once. I was walkin' in the woods, I don't know why. Wind came up and blew me hat off.
Verna: And you chased it, right? You ran and ran, finally caught up to it and you picked it up. But it wasn't a hat anymore and it changed into something else, something wonderful.
Tom Reagan: Nah, it stayed a hat and no, I didn't chase it. Nothing more foolish than a man chasin' his hat

 

[J. M. Stovall]

"She has a horror of men who wear their hats inside the house."

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

 

[Chasseur]

Also from Miller's Crossing:

Casper: "You're giving me the high hat Leo!"

 

[Cigarband]

"Here's your hat, what's your hurry?"

Jimmy Stewart in "It's A Wonderful Life"

 

[Cigarband]

“I am constantly surprised that women’s hats do not provoke more murders”

Charles Laughton in "Witness For The Prosecution"

 

[HadleyH]

From "El Dorado"(1966) Western directed by Howard Hawks...



"Just who in the hell are you? We met last night and again this morning, now, is this your hat?

-No, it's not mine but it'll do."

 

[Fedord Spaniard]

"Hiya Dave, give that a brush for me..." - Warren Beatty in "Bugsy" (1991).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsGqcCTAYL0&feature=related