A Star Is Born - Actors and Their Absence in Film
Norman Maine:
What do they do with the actors while you're away?
Matt Libby:
Oh, they cut em into slices and fry em with eggs.
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A Star Is Born - Comfort and Iron Bars in Luxury
Oliver Niles: [at a sanatorium for treatment of alcoholism]
Are you comfortable here, Norman?
Norman Maine:
Comfortable? It's positively luxurious! They even have iron bars in the windows to keep out the draft.
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A Star Is Born - Confronting Reality in a Star's Decline
Norman Maine:
Do you think I'm slipping?
Oliver Niles:
Can you take it?
Norman Maine:
Yeah, go ahead.
Oliver Niles:
The tense is wrong. You're not slipping - you've slipped.
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A Star Is Born - The Value of Awards and Performance
Norman Maine: [When Esther is accepting her Academy Award]
I won one of those once - They don't mean a thing! What I want is a special award for the worst performance of the year. Lord knows I earned it!
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A Star Is Born - Acknowledging Personal Struggles and Vulnerabilities
Norman Maine:
I don't want to sound immodest, but I think I've stripped a gear.
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A Star Is Born - A Final Glimpse of What Was
Norman Maine:
Do you mind if I take just one more look?
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Death of a Salesman - The Importance of Personal Appeal in Business
Willy Loman:
That's just what I mean, Bernard can get the best marks in school, y'understand, but when he gets out in the business world, y'understand, you are going to be five times ahead of him. That's why I thank Almighty God you're both built like Adonises. Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want. You take me for instance, I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. Willy Loman is here! That's all they have to know, and I go right through.
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Seven Days in May - A Call for Strength and Patience
President Jordan Lyman: [to reporters at a televised press conference]
There's been abroad in this land in recent months a whisper that we have somehow lost our greatness, that we do not have the strength to win without war the struggles for liberty throughout the world. This is slander, because our country is strong, strong enough to be a peacemaker. It is proud, proud enough to be patient. The whisperers and the detractors, the violent men are wrong. We will remain strong and proud, peaceful and patient, and we will see a day when on this earth all men will walk out of the long tunnels of tyranny into the bright sunshine of freedom.
Announcer:
Ladies and gentlemen, that was the President of the United States.
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Seven Days in May - Conflict Between Duty and Leadership in Crisis
General James Mattoon Scott:
And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles - when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States.
President Jordan Lyman:
And that would be General James Mattoon Scott, would it? I don't know whether to laugh at that kind of megalomania, or simply cry.
General James Mattoon Scott:
James Mattoon Scott, as you put it, hasn't the slightest interest in his own glorification. But he does have an abiding interest in the survival of this country.
President Jordan Lyman:
Then, by God, run for office. You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country - why in the name of God don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell-bent to protect?
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Seven Days in May - Confronting the True Nature of the Enemy
President Jordan Lyman:
The next step should be to your liking, Chris. Esther, call the Pentagon. Tell General Scott I want to see him right away.
Esther Townsend: [on intercom]
Yes, sir.
Christopher Todd:
I think it's time we faced the enemy, Mr. President.
President Jordan Lyman: [[Joseph McCarthy|Senator McCarthy; [w:Edwin Walker|General Walker]
He's not the enemy. Scott, the Joint Chiefs, even the very emotional, very illogical lunatic fringe: they're not the enemy. The enemy's an age - a nuclear age. It happens to have killed man's faith in his ability to influence what happens to him. And out of this comes a sickness, and out of sickness a frustration, a feeling of impotence, helplessness, weakness. And from this, this desperation, we look for a champion in red, white, and blue. Every now and then a man on a white horse rides by, and we appoint him to be our personal god for the duration. For some men it was a ], for others it was a ], and now it's a General Scott.
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Seven Days in May - Military Intelligence and Language Clarity
President Jordan Lyman:
All right, Colonel. Let's sum it up, shall we? You're suggesting what?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey:
I'm not sure, Mr. President: just some possibilities, what we call, uh "capabilities" in military intelligence...
President Jordan Lyman:
You got something against the English language, Colonel?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey:
No, sir.
President Jordan Lyman:
Then speak it plainly, if you will.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey:
I'm suggesting, Mr. President, there's a military plot to take over the government. This may occur some time this coming Sunday.
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Seven Days in May - Military Loyalty and Political Responsibility
President Jordan Lyman:
I know what Scott's attitude on the treaty is, what's yours?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey:
I agree with General Scott, sir. I think we're being played for suckers. I think it's really your business. Yours and the Senate. You did it, and they agreed so, well, I don't see how we in the military can question it. I mean we can question it, but we can't fight it. We shouldn't, anyway.
President Jordan Lyman:
Jiggs, isn't it? Isn't that what they call you?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey:
Yes sir.
President Jordan Lyman:
So you, ah, you stand by the Constitution, Jiggs?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey:
I never thought of it just like that, Mr. President, but, well, that's what we got and I guess it's worked pretty well so far. I sure don't want to be the one to say we ought to change it.
President Jordan Lyman:
Neither do I.
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Seven Days in May - The Complexity of Peace and War
Senator Raymond Clark:
Ah, don't get your nanny up; you knew there'd be some dislocations. You can't gear a country's economy for war for 20 years, then suddenly slam on the brakes and expect the whole transition to go like grease through a goose. Hmph. Doesn't work out like that. And think how the whole psychology of the thing's been screwed up from the outset. We've been hating the Russians for a quarter of a century. Suddenly we sign a treaty that says in two months they're to dismantle their bombs, we're to dismantle ours, and we all ride to a peaceful glory. This country will probably live as if peace were just as big a threat as war.
President Jordan Lyman:
Dammit, Ray, we could've had our paradise. Yes, by God, we could've had full employment, whopping Gross National Product, nice cushy feeling that we've got a bomb for every one of theirs. But just as sure as God made the state of Georgia, there'd've come one day when they'd've blown us up, or we'd've blown them up. My doctor worries about my blood pressure. You know who that gentleman is down there with the black box. There are five of them... you know that one of them sits outside my bedroom at night? You know what he carries in that box: the codes. The codes by which I, Jordan Lyman, can give the orders sending us into a nuclear war. Instead of my blood pressure, Horace should worry about my sanity.
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Seven Days in May - Loyalty Over Principles in Politics
President Jordan Lyman: [introducing his dog Trimmer to Col. Casey]
Trimmer is a very political dog. He doesn't have many principles, but he's loyal to his friends.
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The Best Years of Our Lives - Reflections on War and Banking Wisdom
Al Stephenson: [Milly coughs loudly]
I'm sure you'll all agree with me if I said that now is the time for all of us to stop all this nonsense, face facts, get down to brass tacks, forget about the war and go fishing. But I'm not gonna say it. I'm just going to sum the whole thing up in one word. My wife doesn't think I'd better sum it up in that one word. I want to tell you all that the reason for my success as a Sergeant is due primarily to my previous training in the Cornbelt Loan and Trust Company. The knowledge I acquired in the good ol bank I applied to my problems in the infantry. For instance, one day in Okinawa, a Major comes up to me and he says, Stephenson, you see that hill? Yes sir, I see it. All right, he said. You and your platoon will attack said hill and take it. So I said to the Major, but that operation involves considerable risk. We haven't sufficient collateral. I'm aware of that, said the Major, but the fact remains that there's the hill and you are the guys that are going to take it. So I said to him, I'm sorry Major, no collateral, no hill. So we didn't take the hill and we lost the war. I think that little story has considerable significance, but I seem to have forgotten what it is. And now in conclusion, I'd like to tell you a humorous anecdote. I know several humorous anecdotes, but I can't think of any way to clean them up, so I'll only say this much. I love the Cornbelt Loan and Trust Company. There are some who say that the old bank is suffering from hardening of the arteries and of the heart. I refuse to listen to such radical talk. I say that our bank is alive, it's generous, it's human, and we're going to have such a line of customers seeking and getting small loans that people will think we're gambling with the depositors money. And we will be. We will be gambling on the future of this country. I thank you.
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The Best Years of Our Lives - Trust and Character in Leadership
Al Stephenson: [to the bank president]
Novak looked to me like a good bet...You see Mr. Milton, in the Army, I've had to be with men when they were stripped of everything in the way of property except what they carried around with them and inside them. I saw them being tested. Now some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His collateral is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.
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The Best Years of Our Lives - A Loan and Tomato Plants: A Trusting Deal
Al Stephenson: [to Mr. Novak]
You'll get your loan...You look like a good risk to me. And when those tomato plants start producing, I'll come out for some free samples.
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The Best Years of Our Lives - Celebrating Homecoming and Rediscovering Civilization
Al Stephenson: [to Milly and Peggy]
How bout we go celebrate the old man's homecoming...I want to do something, see something. I've been in jungles and around savages so long, I gotta find out I'm back in civilization again.
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The Best Years of Our Lives - The Limits of Military Training and Love
Al Stephenson: [about Homer; the Navy]
They couldn't train him to put his arms around his girl - to stroke her hair.
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