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Movie Quote of the Day – The Asphalt Jungle, 1950 (dir. John Huston)
Angela Phinlay: Do I have to talk to him? Can’t I just talk to. . .you?
Movie Quote of the Day – September Affair, 1950 (dir. William Dieterle)
David Lawrence: That was entirely premeditated.
Manina Stuart: I didn’t think it was gravity. [beat] And I don’t think we should make a habit of it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Night and the City, 1950 (dir. Jules Dassin)
Phil Nosseross: You don’t know what you’re walking into.
Helen Nosseross: I know what I’m walking out of.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Damned Don’t Cry!, 1950 (dir. Vincent Sherman)
Martin Blackford: There’s such a thing as self-respect.
Ethel Whitehead: Don’t talk to me about self-respect. That’s something you tell yourself you got when you got nothing else. What kind of self-respect is there living on aspirin tablets and chicken salad sandwiches? [beat] Look Marty, the only thing that counts is that stuff you take to the bank, that filthy buck that everybody sneers at, but slugs to get. [beat] I know how you feel. You’re a nice guy. But the world isn’t for nice guys. You’ve got to kick and punch and belt your way up because nobody’s going to give you a lift. You’ve got to do it yourself, cuz nobody cares about us except ourselves.
Movie Quote of the Day – D.O.A., 1950 (dir. Rudolph Maté)
Frank Bigelow: I want to report a murder.
Homicide Captain: Sit down. [beat] Where was this murder committed?
Frank Bigelow: San Francisco, last night.
Homicide Captain: Who was murdered?
Frank Bigelow: I was.
Movie Quote of the Day – Born Yesterday, 1950 (dir. George Cukor)
Billie Dawn: All that stuff I’ve been studying, what Paul’s been telling me. It just mixed me up. But when you hit me before it was like everything knocked itself together in my head and made sense. All of the sudden I realized what it means. How some people are always giving and some taking; and it’s not fair. So I’m not gonna let you anymore. [beat] Or anybody else.
Movie Quote of the Day – Gun Crazy, 1950 (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
Bart: You were going to kill that man!
Annie Laurie Starr: He’d have killed us if he had the chance!
Movie Quote of the Day – All About Eve, 1950 (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Karen: Is it over – or just beginning?
Margo: Fasten your seat belts. [beat] It’s going to be a bumpy night.
Movie Quote of the Day – In A Lonely Place, 1950 (dir Nicholas Ray)
Dixon Steele: I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
[beat]
Dixon Steele: You like it?
Laurel Gray: What is it?
Dixon Steele: I. . .I want to put it in the script. I don’t know quite where.
Laurel Gray: You feel well now?
Dixon Steele: I don’t know. Maybe.
[beat]
Dixon Steele: Say it back to me, let’s hear how it sounds.
Laurel Gray: I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I. . .
Dixon Steele: I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Sunset Blvd., 1950 (dir. Billy Wilder)
Joe Gillis: You’re Norma Desmond. You used to be in pictures. You used to be big.
Norma Desmond: I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
Joe Gillis: I knew there was something wrong with them.
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