Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)

Bert Lahr: Eddie Eagen

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• Eddie Eagen : Not many of the great clowns left. More room on top now. Bill Fields is gone. Ted Healy. Willy Howard. All of the great clowns dropping off one by one. Kind of like the American buffalo.

• Eddie Eagen : You're on your way up, Kip. They're probably shining a star for you right now. I just want to remind you there's a great tradition behind you.

  Kipling 'Kip' Cooper : Why sure. That's how I started in the first place when I was a kid. Watching the great comics work.

• Eddie Eagen : [In the hospital]  You know this is the best house I ever played? The critic on the Medical Journal gave me four stethoscopes.

  Kipling 'Kip' Cooper : Say, eh, you've got a great little wife here, Eddie.

  Eddie Eagen : So she keeps telling me.

• Eddie Eagen : To be a great clown you have to have people listen to you in here

  [points to his heart] 

  Eddie Eagen : and not here

  [points to his ear] 

  Eddie Eagen : .