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Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, and Nathan Lane in The Producers (2005)

Will Ferrell: Franz Liebkind

The Producers

Will Ferrell credited as playing...

Franz Liebkind

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Quotes26

  • Franz Liebkind: Stand still! How can I shoot you if you keep moving!
  • Leo Bloom: Elizabeth?
  • Franz Liebkind: Ja. Not many people know this, but the fuhrer was descended from a long line of English queens.
  • Max Bialystock: [after a long pause] Is that right?
  • Franz Liebkind: The Fuhrer wasn't a mousy little mama's boy! The Fuhrer was BUTCH!
  • Franz Liebkind: Ze penalty for braking ze Siegfried Oath is DESS!
  • Max Bialystock: Dess? Is that anything like death?
  • Franz Liebkind: YETH!
  • Franz Liebkind: You know, not many people know zis, but der F¸hrer was a terrific dancer.
  • Max Bialystock: Really? Gee, we didn't know that, did we, Leo?
  • Leo Bloom: No, we sure didn't.
  • Franz Liebkind: THAT'S BECAUSE YOU WERE TAKEN IN BY THE BBC! Filthy British lies! But did they ever say a bad word about Winston Churchill? CHURCHILL!
  • [gags]
  • Franz Liebkind: With his cigars, and his brandy, and his ROTTEN paintings! ROTTEN! Hitler, there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!
  • Franz Liebkind: I was never a member of the Nazi Party! I only followed orders. I had nothing to do with the war! I didn't even know there was a war on. We lived in the back, right across from Switzerland. All we heard was yodelling... yoodle le he hoo
  • Franz Liebkind: [while waving a gun around] You made a fool of Hitler!
  • Carmen Ghia, Roger De Bris: [Carmen and Roger peer over the couch where they are hiding] He didn't need our help.
  • Franz Liebkind: [at end of credits] Don't forget to buy "Mein Kampf" in paper back. Avaliable near you... at Borders Books... or Barnes and Noble... und Amazon.com
  • Franz Liebkind: AQAP!
  • [beat]
  • Franz Liebkind: As quick as possible!
  • Franz Liebkind: You sniveling cowards! Cringing under a desk. Clinging on for life like baby butterflies. Franz Liebkind will show you how to die like a man!
  • Franz Liebkind: [points gun to his own head and attempts to kill himself but is unsuccessful] Yada. Mmm yada! Boy, when things go wrong!
  • [he throws the gun onto the couch and a bullet shoots out]
  • Franz Liebkind: [making Max and Leo take the Siegfried Oath] All right. First you will raise your right forefingers, und repeat after me.
  • [they do]
  • Franz Liebkind: I solemnly svear...
  • Leo Bloom, Max Bialystock: [holding up their forefingers] I solemnly svear...
  • Franz Liebkind: To obey ze Zacred Siegfried Oas...
  • Leo Bloom, Max Bialystock: To obey ze Zacred Siegfried Oas...
  • Franz Liebkind: Und!
  • Max Bialystock: [switching to his Middle Finger] Und!
  • Leo Bloom: [switching to his Middle Finger] Und!
  • Franz Liebkind: [wagging his finger] Never, Never, Never!
  • Leo Bloom, Max Bialystock: [flipping Franz off] Never, Never, Never
  • Franz Liebkind: Dishoner ze spirit und ze memory of Adolph Elizabeth Hitler
  • Leo Bloom, Max Bialystock: Dishonor the spirit und ze... Elizabeth?
  • Franz Liebkind: Jah. Dat vas his middle name. Not many people know zis, but der F¸hrer vas descended from a long line of English qveens.
  • [long pause]
  • Max Bialystock: Is that right?
  • Leo Bloom, Max Bialystock: [shrugging] Adolph ELIZABETH Hitler.
  • [With one leg already broken Franz Liebkind falls down the stairs]
  • Officer O'Rourke: [Calling down the stairs] What happened?
  • Franz Liebkind: I broke... the other leg!
  • Franz Liebkind: I must tell my birds!
  • Franz Liebkind: That is not how you sing Haben Sie geh^rt das Deutsche band! This is how you sing Haben Sie geh^rt das Deutsche band!
  • Franz Liebkind: This is no good. I'm not killing anybody. YOU MUST CO OPERATE!
  • Leo Bloom, Max Bialystock, Carmen Ghia, Roger De Bris: Break a leg!
  • [CRASH!]
  • Max Bialystock: Franz, what happened?
  • Franz Liebkind: I broke my leg!
  • Franz Liebkind: [at end of credits] Don"t forget to buy "Mein Kampf" in paper back. At Borders Books or Barnes and Knoble, or Amazon.com
  • Franz Liebkind: Hilda, where are you going? Argentina's that way!
  • Franz Liebkind: Broadway! I haven't been so happy since we crushed Poland!
  • Max Bialystock: [patting Franz comfortingly] There, there.
  • Franz Liebkind: Where? Where?

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