A Letter to Three Wives - Debating Values in Commercial Radio
George Phipps:
Come here. Sit down for a minute.
George Phipps:
Look, Ri, let's put aside my nausea at the idea of working for the Manleighs. Let's put aside my personal likes and dislikes; they're not important. I'm willing to admit that to a majority of my fellow citizens I'm a slightly comic figure: an educated man.
Rita Phipps:
Nobody's asking you not to be. Think of the good you could do; maybe raise the standards?
George Phipps:
Of commercial radio? What's the phrase, "Wait for your laugh?
George Phipps:
I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.
Rita Phipps:
And thousands are quitting every year to take jobs that pay them a decent living.
George Phipps:
That is unhappily true.
Rita Phipps:
Then why not you?
George Phipps:
Because I can't think of myself doing anything else!
George Phipps:
What would happen, do you think, if we all quit? Who'd teach the kids? Who'd open their minds and hearts to the real glories of the human spirit, past and present? Who'd help them along to the future? Radio sponsors? Comic strips? At that I've been luckier than most. Even without what you earn I've managed to keep our heads above water.
Rita Phipps:
It's quite a strain over a period of time with the water lapping at your chin.
George Phipps:
And that's where you've been a great help. You made it a lot easier for both of us. I'll admit it has upset my male ego from time to time.
Rita Phipps:
And your overdeveloped sense of taste and discrimination which is apparently equaled only by that of Addie Ross!
George Phipps:
Let's try to keep Addie out of this one.
Rita Phipps:
I am fed up with taste and discrimination!
George Phipps:
You're not making sense!
Rita Phipps:
I'm fed up with your nobility and wisdom and superiority and your contempt for me and everything I try to do!
George Phipps:
You're talking nonsense.
Rita Phipps:
Everything I say is nonsense!
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A Letter to Three Wives - Language and Perception in Everyday Conversation
Rita Phipps:
People in the show business, you know what I mean, those kind of people always drink scotch.
George Phipps:
Well, I know what you mean, but I wish you wouldn't say it in radio English. "That kind", not "those kind".
Rita Phipps:
There are men who say "those kind" who earn $100,000 dollars a year.
George Phipps:
There are men who say "stick em up" who earn more. I don't expect to do either.
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A Letter to Three Wives - The Irony of Love and Advertising
George Phipps:
The purpose of radio writing, as far as I can see, is to prove to the masses that a deodorant can bring happiness... a mouth wash guarantee success and a laxative attract romance.
Mrs. Finney:
Good night, Mother dear, and don't wait up." If a daughter of mine ever really talked like that I'd cut her tongue out!
Addie Ross:
She won't stay mad at him for long. She's too much in love. Pretty soon she'll be full of self-reproach. Ha ha! Women are so silly.
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Tension Between Uncertainty and Action
Walter O'Neil:
I wasn't going to shoot.
Sam Masterson:
I wasn't gonna wait and see.
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Out of the Past - A Lesson on Trust and Betrayal
Whit Sterling: [to Jeff]
Look I crossed you once. I know better than to try a second time.
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Out of the Past - Confronting Betrayal and Manipulation
Whit Sterling: [to Kathie]
You dirty little phony. Go on lie some more. Tell me how you handled things for me in San Francisco. Tell me it was all Joe's idea. Go on, Kathie, show me how you're gonna squirm your way out this time. What a sucker you must think I am. I took you back when you came whimpering and crawling. I should have kicked your teeth in. No, I'm not going to. Not now Kathie. We're gonna let the law push you around...You're going to take the rap and play along. You're gonna make every exact move I tell ya. If you don't, I'll kill ya. And I'll promise you one thing. It won't be quick. I'll break you first. You won't be able to answer a telephone or open a door without thinking: This is it. And when it comes, it still won't be quick. And it won't be pretty. You can take your choice.
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Out of the Past - Finding Happiness Through Self-Resolution
Whit Sterling: [to Jeff]
You'll never be happy until you square yourself.
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Out of the Past - Lost Feelings and Forgotten Emotions
Whit Sterling:
My feelings? About ten years ago, I hid them somewhere and haven't been able to find them.
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Out of the Past - Understanding Through Encounter
Whit Sterling:
When you see her, you'll understand better.
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Spartacus - A Call to Stand with Roman Pride
Spartacus:
Stand up. On your feet. Stand up, the way a noble Roman should.
Slave: [the slaves laugh]
That's Roman pride for you, Spartacus!
Spartacus:
That's better. What's your name?
Glabrus:
Marcus, Glabrus.
Spartacus:
Glabrus.
Glabrus:
Commander of the Garrison of Rome!
Spartacus:
Commander?
Crixus: [the slaves laugh]
He was commanding it on his belly when we found him, playing dead!
Spartacus:
You disappoint me, Marcus Glabrus, playing dead. You afraid to die? It's easy to die. Haven't you seen enough gladiators in the arena to see how easy it is to die?
Glabrus:
Why...what are you going to do to me?
Spartacus: [turns to the slaves]
I don't know. What should we do with him?
Dionysus: [the slaves laugh]
Let's have a matched pair, him and me!
Glabrus:
I'll not fight like a gladiator!
Spartacus: [showing Glabrus a Roman baton]
You keep staring at this. You recognize this baton?
Glabrus:
Yes.
Spartacus: [holds up the baton; grips and snaps the baton in two]
You should! It was in your tent. The symbol of the Senate! All the power of Rome!
Dionysus:
That's the power of Rome!
Spartacus: [thrusting the broken baton at Glabrus]
Take that back to your senate. Tell them you and that broken stick is all that's left of the garrison of Rome! Tell them we want nothing from Rome, nothing, except our freedom!
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Spartacus - Struggle for Freedom in Ancient Rome
Dionysus: [watching two Roman nobles being forced by a slave on horseback to fight to the death]
Ah-ha ha! Come on, fat boy! Yeah!
Slaves: [as Spartacus enters the arena]
Spartacus! Hey, Spartacus!
Spartacus: [gestures to the slaves on the balcony; the slaves laugh; the slaves start booing]
Noble Romans, fight each other like animals. Your new masters, betting to see who'll die first. Drop your weapons.
Slaves:
No! No! No! No!
Crixus: [jumps down and draws his sword]
I want to see their blood, right here where Draba died! When I fight matched pairs, they fight to the death!
Spartacus: [turns to the nobles; Spartacus turns to the slaves as the nobles scurry out of the arena]
I made myself a promise, Crixus. I swore that if I ever get out of this place, I'd die before I saw two men fight to the death again. Draba made that promise too. He kept it, so will I. Go on. Get up! What are we, Crixus? What are we becoming, Romans? What's happening to us? Have we learned nothing? We hunt wine when we should be looking for bread.
Dionysus:
When you got wine, you don't need bread!
Spartacus:
You can't just be a gang of drunken raiders.
Dionysus:
What else can we be?
Spartacus:
Gladiators, an army of gladiators. There's never been an army like that. One gladiator is worth any two Roman soldiers that ever lived.
Crixus:
We beat the Romans guards here, but a Roman army is different. They fight different than we do, too.
Spartacus:
We can beat anything they send against us if we really want to.
Crixus:
It takes a big army.
Spartacus:
We'll have a big army. Once we're on the march, we'll free every slave in every town and village. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
Dionysus:
That's right. Once we cross the Alps, we're safe.
Crixus:
Nobody can cross the Alps. Every pass is defended by its own legion.
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Spartacus - The Cost of Friendship in the Arena
Spartacus:
What is your name?
Draba:
You don't want to know mine. I don't want to know your name.
Spartacus:
Just a friendly question.
Draba:
Gladiators don't make friends. If we're ever matched in the arena together, I have to kill you.
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Spartacus - The Return of a Powerful Leader
Spartacus:
He'll come back. He'll come back, and he'll be millions!
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Spartacus - Rome Comes to Spartacus and His Army
Spartacus: [[w:Crixus|Crixus]
] always wanted to march on Rome. Now he doesn't have to. Rome has come to us.
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Spartacus - Identity and Resistance in Spartacus
Spartacus:
I am Spartacus!
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Spartacus - The Fearlessness of Slaves in Death
Spartacus:
When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
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Spartacus - The Unending Struggle for Authenticity
Spartacus:
We've traveled a long ways together. We've fought many battles and won many victories. Now, instead of taking ships to our homes across the sea, we must fight again once more. Maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.
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Spartacus - Valuing Freedom Over Wealth and Comfort
Spartacus:
I'd rather be here, a free man among brothers, facing a long march and a hard fight, than the richest citizen in Rome: fat with food he didn't work for, and surrounded by slaves.
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Ace in the Hole - Value of One Over Many
Herbie Cook:
The old man sure looked bad. Did you see his face?
Charles Tatum:
Yeah.
Herbie Cook:
Like the faces of those folks you see outside a coal mine with maybe 84 men trapped inside.
Charles Tatum:
One man's better than 84. Didn't they teach you that?
Herbie Cook:
Teach me what?
Charles Tatum:
Human interest. You pick up the paper, you read about 84 men or 284, or a million men, like in a Chinese famine. You read it, but it doesn't stay with you. One man's different, you want to know all about him. That's human interest.
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Ace in the Hole - Uncertainty and Opportunity in Challenging Situations
Herbie Cook: [Looking at the unstable cliff-dwelling]
I don't like the looks of it, Chuck.
Charles Tatum:
Neither do I, fan, but I like the odds.
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Ace in the Hole - Longing for the Buzz of City Life
Charles Tatum:
When the history of this sunbaked Siberia is written, these shameful words will live in infamy: No chopped chicken liver. No garlic pickles. No Lindy's. No Madison Square Garden. No Yogi Berra. What do you know about Yogi Berra, Miss Deverich?
Miss Deverich:
Yogi? Why, it's a sort of religion, isn't it?
Charles Tatum:
You bet it is - a belief in the New York Yankees. You know what's wrong with New Mexico, Mr. Wendell? Too much outdoors. Give me those eight spindly trees in front of Rockefeller Center any day. That's enough outdoors for me. No subways smelling sweet-sour. What do you use for noise around here? No beautiful roar from eight million ants - fighting, cursing, loving. No shows. No South Pacific. No chic little dames across a crowded bar. And worst of all, Herbie. No 80th floor to jump from when you feel like it....When I came here, I thought this was gonna be a 30-day stretch, maybe 60. Now it's a year. It looks like a life sentence. Where is it? Where's the loaf of bread with a file in it? Where's that big story to get me outta here? One year, and what's our hot news? A soapbox derby. A tornado - that double-crossed us and went to Texas. An old goof who said he was the real Jesse James - until they found out he was a chicken thief from Gallup by the name of, uh, Schimmelmacher. I'm stuck here, fans. Stuck for good. Unless of course, you Miss Deverich, instead of writing household hints about how to remove chili stains from blue jeans, get yourself involved in a trunk murder. How about it, Miss Deverich? I could do wonders with your dismembered body.
Miss Deverich:
Oh, Mr. Tatum. Really.
Charles Tatum: [He chuckles]
Or you, Mr. Wendell. If you'd only toss that cigar out of the window - real far, all the way to Los Alamos - And boom!! Now there would be a story.
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Ace in the Hole - Frequency of Drinking Habits Discussed
Jacob Q. Boot:
Do you drink a lot?
Charles Tatum:
Not a lot - just frequently.
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Ace in the Hole - Ambition Justifies Unethical Choices
Charles Tatum:
I don't belong in your office. Not with that embroidered sign on the wall; it gets in my way.
Jacob Q. Boot:
Then it does bother you a little.
Charles Tatum:
Not enough to stop me. I'm on my way back to the top, and if it takes a deal with a crooked sheriff, that's alright with me! And if I have to fancy it up with an Indian curse and a broken hearted wife for Leo, then that's alright too!
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Ace in the Hole - Political Threats and Tensions Unfold
Sheriff:
You're that Tatum guy that was popping off over the phone last night!
Charles Tatum:
I wasn't popping off, Sheriff; I was threatening. "Play along with me and you'll get re-elected. Don't, and I'll crucify you," that's what I said, remember?
Sheriff:
I think I'll have my boys take you down to the county line and throw you out!
Charles Tatum:
Throw out your campaign manager? You need plenty of help.
Sheriff:
And maybe before I throw you out, I'll toss you into the Klink for awhile!
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Ace in the Hole - Conflict Between Tatum and Deputy Sheriff
Deputy Sheriff:
Hey you! Sheriff wants to see you, down at the trading post. Don't waste any of his time cause he ain't staying around long. Maybe you ain't either.
Charles Tatum:
You don't say?
Deputy Sheriff:
You wanna know something? He don't like you.
Charles Tatum:
And I was going to propose to him.
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Ace in the Hole - Desk Location and Departure Timing Discussion
Charles Tatum:
Where's my desk?
Jacob Q. Boot:
The one by the door. You may be out of here by Saturday.
Charles Tatum:
Sooner the better.
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Ace in the Hole - Critique of Local Journalism Standards
Charles Tatum:
Mr. Boot, I was passing through Albuquerque; had breakfast here. I read your paper and thought you might be interested in my reaction.
Jacob Q. Boot:
Indeed I am.
Charles Tatum:
Well, to be honest, it made me throw up. I don't mean to tell you I was expecting the New York Times, but even for Albuquerque, this is pretty Albuquerque.
Jacob Q. Boot:
Alright, here's your nickel back.
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Ace in the Hole - Navigating Challenges in Adverse Situations
Reporter:
We're all in the same boat here.
Charles Tatum:
I'm in the boat. You're in the water. Now let's see how you can swim.
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Ace in the Hole - The Value of a Newspaperman's Work
Charles Tatum:
How'd you like to make a thousand dollars a day, Mr. Boot? I'm a thousand-dollar-a-day newspaperman. You can have me for nothing.
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Ace in the Hole - Critique of New Mexico's Landscape by Tatum
Charles Tatum:
You know what's wrong with New Mexico, Mr. Wendel? Too much outdoors.
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Ace in the Hole - Comment on Intelligence and Appearance
Charles Tatum:
When they bleached your hair, they must have bleached your brain too.
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Ace in the Hole - Handling News in Any Situation
Charles Tatum:
I can handle big news and little news. And if there's no news, I'll go out and bite a dog.
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Ace in the Hole - The Fleeting Nature of News Stories
Charles Tatum:
It's a good story today. Tomorrow, it'll be yesterday's news and they'll wrap a fish in it.
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Ace in the Hole - The Art of Deceptive Honesty
Charles Tatum:
I've done a lot of lying in my time. I've lied to men who wear belts. I've lied to men who wear suspenders. But I'd never be so stupid as to lie to a man who wears both belt and suspenders.
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Ace in the Hole - The Appeal of Bad News in Media
Charles Tatum:
Bad news sells best. Cause good news is no news.
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Champion - The Harsh Realities of Competition
Connie Kelly:
Oh, this rotten business!
Midge Kelly:
Awww, lay off the business. It's like any other business, only here the blood shows.
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Champion - Embracing Success and Recognition for the First Time
Midge Kelly:
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf? Didn't you hear em? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding!
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - A Service to Mankind Amidst Chaos
Ned Land: [as Vulcania explodes]
Sorry I had to wallop you, Professor. But there wasn't time to stop for souvenirs.
Professor Aronnax:
Perhaps you did mankind a service, Ned.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Final Voyage of the Nautilus
Captain Nemo:
We are taking the Nautilus down for the last time.
Man:
We understand sir, and we're with you.
Ned Land:
Wait a minute. I don't understand. What's that gotta do with us?
Captain Nemo:
I'm dying, and the Nautilus is dying with me. Professor?
Professor Aronnax:
Yes.
Captain Nemo:
In a matter of minutes, an explosion, such as the world has never known, will destroy my island and all its works forever. That is why I have brought the Nautilus... here, to its last, deep resting place. Here at least, we will die in peace. Let every man go to his quarters and remain there.
Ned Land:
Why do you take us down with you?
Captain Nemo:
Lock them in their quarters.
Man:
Aye, sir. Take them out.
Conseil:
I don't want to die! Don't let him do it! I want no part of this!
Professor Aronnax:
Captain, you cannot do this. There is more at stake here than just our lives. Yours was a dream of the future come true. I beg you to reconsider.
Captain Nemo:
A power greater than mine makes that impossible. But there is hope for the future. When the world is ready for a new and better life, all this will someday come to pass... in God's good time.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - A Suggestion for a Night Out
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - A Conversation About Adventure and Fortune
Ned Land: [after Captain Farragut announces that he is ending the search]
Cheer up, Professor. You'll forget all about fishing when you see the gals in Saigon.
Professor Aronnax:
I thought they promised you a bonus if you harpooned this monster, Mr. Land.
Ned Land:
Knowing full well I couldn't collect it. When I get back, I'm shipping out on the first whaler that'll take me. I won't get rich, but I won't be sitting around picking my teeth with my harpoon.
Conseil:
Maybe we are lucky. It might have sunk us.
Ned Land:
You scare me. Be a good loser, Professor. The fish that got away is always the biggest one.
Conseil:
Ah, what a pity, Professor. I know you had visions of that monster mounted in the National Museum.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Dining Etiquette Aboard the Nautilus
Captain Nemo: [Noticing that Ned is eating with his knife]
There's a fork on your left, Mr. Land, or aren't you accustomed to utensils?
Ned Land: [mouth full of food]
I'm indifferent to em.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Ned Land's Warning About Captain Nemo
Ned Land:
There's one thing you ought to know, Professor: Nemo's cracked. I've yet to see the day you can make a deal with a mad dog. So while you're feeding him sugar, I'll be figuring a plan to muzzle him.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - A Whimsical Tale of Love and Adventure
Ned Land: [singing]
Got a whale of a tale to tell ya, lads, a whale of a tale or two, bout the floppin fish and the girls I've loved on nights like this with the moon above. A whale of a tale and it's all true, I swear by my tattoo. There was Mermaid Minnie; met her down in Madagascar. She would kiss me anytime that I would ask her. Then one evening, her flame of love blew out. Blow me down and pick me up, she swapped me for a trout!
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