He Who Gets Slapped (1924)

Lon Chaney: Paul Beaumont, HE

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Quotes 

• Baron Regnard : I hate clowns!

  Paul Beaumont : [laughs]  I hate Barons!

• Paul Beaumont : [to the ferocious lion]  Come, my friend - give me the last slap!

• HE : You forget, gentlemen - this is a circus - love must wait - - the performance must go on!

• HE : Honorable Gentlemen - the world must have its love...

• HE : Honorable Gentlemen - the world must have its tragedy...

• Paul Beaumont : He slapped me, Marie. I would have killed him, but they laughed - laughed as if I were a clown.

• Marie Beaumont : What have you given me - that I should love you? You with your silly face and stupid books!

  [Slaps her husband, Paul Beaumont] 

  Marie Beaumont : Fool! Clown!

  Paul Beaumont : [In disbelief]  Fool! Clown!

  [laughs hysterically] 

• HE : You see - I am happy - I am smiling - a fool is always smiling...

• HE : I say serious things - and people laugh at me!

• HE : Let us drink to - the one who laughs last!