Dick Tracy Quotes

Dick Tracy Mumbles, do you care to go over that again?

Recorder Rigwoydidit...rewinds...Wig woy idit...rewinds again...Big Boy did it.

Mumbles W-w-wait!

Mumbles 88 Keys, the piano man, set you up. Big Boy paid him to get you out of the way.

Big Boy Caprice Oh look Lips, you dirtied your pretty tuxedo. Looks like you need a bath!

Lips Manlis The "Bath"?! Not "the bath", Big Boy, not "the bath"!

Big Boy Caprice It was great working for you but now it is time to retire.

Lips Manlis Ain't we pals, Big Boy? Ain't we pals?

Big Boy Caprice There are no pals in this business, Lips, you taught me that! I hate to do this, and I'm gonna miss you, but all is fair in love and business - ].

Lips Manlis NO!

Big Boy Caprice All right, put the word out! Lips territory is my territory now. Anyone who was working for him, is working for me. Everything he owns, I own!

Taglines When do we eat?

Taglines I'm on my way!

Tess Trueheart Well, what are you waitin for? A nice, safe desk?

Dick Tracy Tess? You're one in a million.

Kid This is amazing, Tracy! What are you waitin for? Come on, let's go! Come on, Metropolitan Bank! Come on, step on it! You know somethin', Tracy? I kind of like that dame.

Dick Tracy Is the enemy of my enemy my friend, or the enemy of my friend my enemy?

Pat Patton What?

Dick Tracy Or enemy of my enemy my enemy?

Pat Patton What'd he say?

Dick Tracy The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Sam Catchem He said the enemy of his enemy is his enemy.

Pat Patton Oh.

Breathless Mahoney Thanks for calling. I was beginning to wonder what a girl had to do to get arrested.

Dick Wearing that dress is a step in the right direction.

Breathless Are you going to make a move or do I have to do everything?

Dick I'm on duty.

Breathless When's your day off?

Dick Sunday.

Breathless It's a big world. It must be Sunday somewhere.

Breathless Mahoney I know how you feel. You don't know if you want to hit me or kiss me. I get a lot of that.

88 Keys The girls are tired. We've been going all night. It's 2 a.m.

Big Boy Caprice It's 2 a.m.? I'm about to turn this dump into the best place of a new era in entertainment, you're telling me it's 2 a.m.?

Big Boy Caprice PLAY THE PIANO!

Breathless Mahoney Hey! That was a silly thing to do. He's the best piano player in town.

Big Boy Caprice Shut up! Come here. Next time, I take his fingers and I turn them into pretzels. I just might do the same thing to your face.

Big Boy Caprice See? He's playing better already.

Dick Tracy Who is it?

Offstage voice Mr. Tracy, this is Mrs. Snide from the orphanage. We need to speak to you about the runaway you have been harboring.

Dick Tracy I did not hear anything from the orphanage about this.

Kid I don't like dames.

Tess Good. Me neither.

Dick Tracy Take the bad men away. They scare me.

Breathless Mahoney Aren't you gonna frisk me?

Itchy Yeah! Thirty seconds, no more Dick! Thirty seconds, no more Dick! Thirty seconds, no more Dick!

Kid / Dick Tracy Jr. When do we eat?

Mrs. Trueheart You have to understand Tess, that Dick Tracy is a hard man on himself. He could get elected President of the United States and complain that he was relegated to a desk job.

Flattop : EAT LEAD TRACY.

Big Boy Caprice All right, that is enough! I want them dead, both of them. I want this No Face dead and I want Tracy dead. What's the matter, you bums forgot how to kill people? Doesn't your work mean anything to you anymore? Have you no sense of pride in what you do? No sense of DUTY?! No sense of DESTINY?! I'm looking for generals; what do I got?! Foot soldiers! I WANT DICK TRACY DEAD!!!

Dick Tracy Tess, you're one in a million.

Breathless Mahoney You were right, Tracy. I couldn't pull the trigger. Yeah. You were my only mistake. Tell me the truth. Could it ever have happened between us?

Big Boy Caprice Around me, if a woman don't wear mink, she don't wear nothin'.

Breathless Mahoney Well, I look good both ways.

Big Boy Caprice Because I have a vision. A big boss must have a vision. We gotta town with thousands of small stores and businesses. People are working real hard. I think they should be working real hard. For us. Because we are for the people. "And if you ain't for the people, you can't buy the people." ].

Big Boy Caprice There was one ]...one ]...one me!

Big Boy Caprice Don't move! Not if you want to stay alive. A woman, a woman, a woman! I've been humiliated by a woman. The way I see it—and Plato agrees with me—is that there is what is, and then there is what we would like it to be. But that's not important. What's important is the future; it's planning ahead. "A man without a plan is not a man." Nietzsche. Wait a minute. Wait. I'm having a thought. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna have a thought. It's coming. It's gone. We must rise above the tide, take that journey, that journey into that faraway land...a land that just waits. It waits by the track where the train of destiny must run... run into the future, breaking the shackles of the past. Forget the past. Forget the past. Our limitations are our shackles. Put them behind you forever. Put them behind you forever, Tess. Can't you see I love you?