King of the Zombies (1941)

Marguerite Whitten: Samantha

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Quotes 

• Samantha, the Maid : What you doing in that lineup?

  Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : Don't bother me, woman. Can't you see I is a has-been?

  Samantha, the Maid : A zombie?

  Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : Nothing else but. And don't ask me my name, 'cuz I don't know. I don't know nothing.

  Samantha, the Maid : You ain't no zombie, 'cuz zombies can't talk.

  Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : Can I help it 'cuz I'm loquacious?

• Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [Eating the food set out for the zombies]  This being a zombie sure is a drawback. Where's the salt?

  Samantha, the Maid : You eats that the way it is and likes it. Zombies ain't supposed to use salt.

  Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [Samantha brings Jeff the salt]  I thought you said!

  Samantha, the Maid : I changed my mind.

  Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [Samantha continues to pour the salt]  That's more like it. Take it easy there woman, I ain't no herring!

  Samantha, the Maid : Now eat.

  Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [Samantha keeps pouring the salt]  Whew! What is you trying to do? Poison me?

• Samantha : Have another piece of pie, Honey Lamb?

  Jeff : I already had two.

  Samantha : You already had six, but does you want another one?

  Jeff : Well, if you insist.

  Samantha : Boy, you the most pious man I ever did see.

  [making a pun with the words "pie" and "pious"] 

• [Jeff points to a wrinkled old crone stirring a pot] 

  Jeff : Who's that? Methuselah?

  Samantha : That's Tahama.

  Jeff : I know a museum that would give a fortune just to have her under glass.

  Samantha : What's a museum?

  Jeff : That's where they keep dead things.

  Samantha : Oh. Like here!

  Jeff : Hmm?