Muscle Beach Party (1964)

Buddy Hackett: S.Z. Matts

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Quotes 

• S.Z. Matts : How come you're in that cage protected, and I'm out here getting bumbed off?

  Cappy : Sanctuary.

  Julie : Sanctuary?

  Cappy : Yeah, sanctuary from them. These beach kids. I had to build this thing to protect myself. I used to have a beautiful Cappy's place even more beautiful than this. And just last year, these beach kids completely demolished it and pretty near demolished me with it during a rumble all because of a stranger like you. Hey, you're not another one of those anthropologist explorers or something? A sex maniac maybe?

  S.Z. Matts : I don't have any hobbies.

• S.Z. Matts : [Seeing kids dancing]  You know if there was no music here this place would be raided.

• Julie : [signalling to the chopper pilot to land on the beach]  Lower! Go lower!

  S.Z. Matts : If we go any lower, we'll cut off their heads!

  Julie : I'm not interested in their heads!

• Johnny : [to Julie who is admiring Flex Martian]  What is this? You're looking at him as if he were some prime bull or something.

  S.Z. Matts : Quiet, will you. She's concentrating.

  Johnny : On what? Listen, I don't like the look in her eye. That's not a lady-like look!

  S.Z. Matts : She is not a lady. She is a Contessa! And she's very rich. Rich, rich - rich!

• S.Z. Matts : Yeah, go ahead, just sign here.

  [Jack signs the contract] 

  S.Z. Matts : Now, tonight you'll have a good night's sleep.

  Jack Fanny : I ain't tired.

  S.Z. Matts : Lift something heavy! Jack, it's a pleasure to do business with a Fanny like you.

• Theodore : But, but, but, but, but...

  S.Z. Matts : No buts!

• S.Z. Matts : Do you know what this place is? This is a nut house. And do you know who's running it? The nuts! The nuts are running it!

• S.Z. Matts : Let me put it this way, Frank: you're a bird in a gilded cage and every once in awhile she opens the door and lets you out and the two of you read The Wall Street Journal together. Isn't that a pretty little picture?