Pickup on South Street - Betrayal and Trust in a Deal
Joey:
You'd sell anybody for buttons.
Moe Williams:
Yeah, but not to you, Mister!
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Pickup on South Street - Caution in Handling Money Matters
Moe Williams:
I've got almost enough to buy both the stone and the plot.
Capt. Dan Tiger:
If you lost that kitty, it's Potter's Field.
Moe Williams:
This I do not think is a very funny joke, Captain Tiger!
Capt. Dan Tiger:
I just meant you ought to be careful how you carry your bankroll.
Moe Williams:
Look, Tiger, if I was to be buried in Potter's Field, it would just about kill me.
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Pickup on South Street - The Ethics of Informing in Crime
Candy:
You've been recommended as the best pickpocket stoolie in the business.
Moe Williams:
What kind of talk is that, calling me a stoolie? I was brought up to report any injustice to the police authority. I call that being a solid citizen.
Candy:
But you get paid for it.
Moe Williams:
You gonna knock it?
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Pickup on South Street - Betrayal Among Friends in Unlikely Circumstances
Moe Williams:
What's the matter with you? Playing footsie with the Commies!
Skip McCoy:
You waving the flag, too?
Moe Williams:
Listen, I knew you since you was a little kid. You was always a regular kind of crook. I never figured you for a louse.
Skip McCoy:
Stop, you're breaking my heart.
Moe Williams:
Even in our crummy line of business you gotta draw the line somewhere.
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Pickup on South Street - The Concept of Happy Money
Moe Williams:
You got any Happy Money?
Candy:
Happy Money?
Moe Williams:
Yeah, money that's gonna make me happy.
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Pickup on South Street - Consequences of Asking Silly Questions
Moe Williams:
Ask a silly question, you get a dopey look.
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Pickup on South Street - The Burden of Survival and Acceptance
Moe Williams:
Listen, Mister. When I come in here tonight, you seen an old clock runnin down. I'm tired. I'm through. Happens to everybody sometime. It'll happen to you too, someday. With me it's a little bit of everything. Backaches and headaches. I can't sleep nights. It's so hard to get up in the morning, and get dressed and walk the streets. Climb the stairs. I go right on doin it! Well, what am I gonna do, knock it? I have to go on makin a livin'... so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waitin fer if I gotta do bus'ness with crumbs like you.
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Pillow Talk - Understanding What You're Missing in Life
Jan: [about living alone]
Well, what am I missing?
Alma:
If you have to ask, you're missing it!
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Pillow Talk - The Paradox of Solitude and Acceptance
Alma:
If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.
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Titanic - Recognizing the Signs of a Runaway
Maude Young:
I've seen that look before. He's a runaway.
Earl Meeker:
From what, some woman?
Maude Young:
No, he's running too fast for that.
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Rear Window - Searching for Clues in the Garden
Lisa:
The last thing Mrs. Thorwald would leave behind would be her wedding ring. Stella, do you ever leave yours at home?
Stella:
The only way somebody would get that would be to chop off my - finger. Let's go down to the garden and find out what's buried there.
Lisa:
Why not? I always wanted to meet Mrs. Thorwald.
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Rear Window - Suspicion and Cleanup in Rear Window
Lisa:
What's he doing? Cleaning house?
Jeff:
He's washing and scrubbing down the bathroom walls.
Stella:
Must've splattered a lot.
Stella:
Come on, that's what were all thinkin'. He killed her in there, now he has to clean up those stains before he leaves.
Lisa:
Stella... your choice of words!
Stella:
Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killin yet.
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Rear Window - Anticipating Trouble in a Constrained Environment
Stella:
I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away...I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father. And the Judge says, Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in Dannemora.
Jeff:
Yeah, right now I'd welcome trouble...You know, I think you're right. I think there is going to be trouble around here.
Stella:
...What kind of trouble?
Jeff:
Lisa Fremont.
Stella:
Are you kidding? She's a beautiful young girl and you're a reasonably healthy young man.
Jeff:
She expects me to marry her.
Stella:
That's normal.
Jeff:
I don't want to.
Stella:
That's abnormal.
Jeff:
I'm just not ready for marriage.
Stella:
Every man's ready for marriage when the right girl comes along. And Lisa Fremont is the right girl for any man with half a brain who can get one eye open.
Jeff:
Oh, she's all right.
Stella:
What did you do? Have a fight?
Jeff:
No.
Stella:
Her father loading up the shotgun?
Jeff:
What? Please, Stella.
Stella:
It's happened before you know. Some of the world's happiest marriages have, uh, started under the gun, as you might say.
Jeff:
No, she's just not the girl for me.
Stella:
Yeah, she's only perfect.
Jeff:
She's too perfect. She's too talented, she's too beautiful. She's too sophisticated. She's too everything but what I want.
Stella:
Is, um, what you want something you can discuss?
Jeff:
Well, it's very simple, Stella. She belongs to that rarified atmosphere of Park Avenue, you know. Expensive restaurants, literary cocktail parties...Can you imagine her tramping around the world with a camera bum who never has more than a week's salary in the bank? If she was only ordinary.
Stella:
You ever gonna get married?
Jeff:
I'll probably get married one of these days, and when I do, it's gonna be to someone who thinks of life not just as a new dress, and a lobster dinner, the latest scandal. I need a woman who's willing...to go anywhere and do anything and love it. So the honest thing for me to do is just to call the whole thing off and let her find somebody else.
Stella:
Yeah, I can hear you now. Get out of my life. You're a perfectly wonderful woman - you're too good for me. Look, Mr. Jefferies, I'm not an educated woman, but I can tell you one thing. When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham! Like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.
Jeff:
There's an intelligent way to approach marriage.
Stella:
Intelligence! Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence. Hah! Modern marriage!
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Rear Window - Reflections on Privacy and Observation
Stella:
The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the work house...They got no windows in the work house. You know, in the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker. Any of those bikini bombshells you're always watchin worth a red-hot poker? Oh dear, we've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes, sir. How's that for a bit of home-spun philosophy?
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How the West Was Won - Invitations and Unspoken Concerns in Relationships
Roger Morgan:
Well, ain't that what I been doin'? Invitin you? Invitin you to share my life, Miss Prescott.
Lilith Prescott:
I'm sorry, Mr. Morgan.
Roger Morgan:
It's somethin else, ain't it? Must be something else naggin at ya. Well, I don't aim to let it stop me, Miss Prescott. You can count on that.
Agatha Clegg:
What'd he want?
Lilith Prescott:
Children.
Agatha Clegg:
Children? Well, I'll be... Why didn't he come shoppin at the right store?
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How the West Was Won - Unexpected Partnerships and Ambitions in Agriculture
Agatha Clegg: [Lily has asked to partner-up with Agatha in a wagon train]
You know something ? I got a hunch you're gonna draw men like fish to bait. Maybe I can catch one of them while they swim by. You got yourself a partner.
Cpl. Peterson:
Mrs. Rawlings, there ain't much glory in trompin behind a plow.
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