Allegedly said on a movie set, after a director had filmed repeated takes of Garbo jumping into icy cold water, and wanted to film yet another take. Reported Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990), p. 30-31.
Misattributed
“T'ank you veddy much.”
Eye spelling of the catchphrase from Kaufman's character Foreign Man, later adapted into Latka Gravas on Taxi [citation needed]
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American stand-up comedian and actor 1949–1984Related quotes
“It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.”
As Much As You Can http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=113&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
“No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life”
“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
Variant: No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)
The Thoroughly Modern Marriage of Phil and Karin Housley http://buffalonews.com/2017/11/23/the-thoroughly-modern-marriage-of-phil-and-karin-housley (November 23, 2017)