Joke, Groucho Marx as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush from A Day at the Races (1937)

Flo Marlowe: Oh, hold me closer! Closer! Closer!
Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush: If I hold you any closer, I’ll be in back of you!

- Groucho Marx as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush from A Day at the Races (1937)

Joke, Groucho Marx as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff from Horse Feathers (1932)

Baravelli: There's a man outside with a big black moustache.
Professor Wagstaff: Tell him I've got one.

- Groucho Marx as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff from Horse Feathers (1932)

Joke, Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)

Spaulding: How much would you want to run into an open manhole?
Ravelli: Just-a the cover charge! Ha, ha, ha.
Spaulding: Well, drop in some time.

- Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)

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Entertainment·Television, Groucho Marx

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

- Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

AFI #053 Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

- Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)

The bolded line is ranked #53 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.