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Movie Quote of the Day – Two Rode Together, 1961 (dir. John Ford)
Belle Aragon: Well, what will you have?
Marshal Guthrie McCabe: What he could use most is a bath.
First Lt. Jim Gary: Now, don’t keep saying things like that to me!
Belle Aragon: I’m sorry, that’s one service we don’t provide. Not that it doesn’t have its possibilities.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Raisin in the Sun, 1961 (dir. Daniel Petrie)
Walter: You look young this morning, baby.
Ruth: Yeah?
Walter: Yeah. Just for a second, stirring them eggs, you looked real young again.
Ruth: [gives him the look]
Walter: It’s gone now. You look like yourself again.
Ruth: Man, if you don’t shut up and leave me alone. . .
Walter: You know, the first thing a man ought to learn in this life is not to make love to no woman early in the morning. You all are some evil creatures 8 o’clock in the morning.
Movie Quote of the Day – Splendor in the Grass, 1961 (dir. Elia Kazan)
Wilma Dean: Bud, Bud. . .I just can’t stand it when you’re mad at me.
Bud: Oh, Deanie, I don’t know what’s the matter with me lately. I’m always losing my temper. You’re the only girl in the world for me, don’t you know that, Deanie?
Wilma Dean: I want to be.
Bud: If it weren’t for you. . .If it weren’t for you, Deanie, I’d. . .I don’t know. . .I. . .
Movie Quote of the Day – Paris Blues, 1961 (dir. Martin Ritt)
Ram Bowen: Is your friend as pretty as you are?
Connie Lampson: Yes. She’s a white girl.
Ram Bowen: Might be hard to find. All these white girls look alike.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Guns of Navarone, 1961 (dir. J. Lee Thompson)
Corporal Miller: To tell you the truth, I didn’t think we could do it.
Capt. Keith Mallory: To tell you the truth, neither did I.
Movie Quote of the Day – Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961 (dir. Blake Edwards)
Paul Varjak: You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You’re chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say, “Okay, life’s a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.” You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. [takes out the ring and throws it in Holly’s lap] Here. I’ve been carrying this thing around for months. I don’t want it anymore.
Oscar Vault Monday – The Hustler, 1961 (dir. Robert Rossen)
This is one of those films that sucks you into its world and doesn’t let up for a moment until it’s over. Then afterwards you realize you’ve forgotten to breathe for two and a half hours. This is definitely one of Paul Newman’s best performances, though pretty much all of Paul Newman’s performances are his best because, like Jack Lemmon, Newman is always good. The Hustler was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning two: Best B&W Art Direction (won), Best B&W Cinematography (won), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Jackie Gleason, Best Supporting Actor George C. Scott, Best Actress Piper Laurie, Best Actor Paul Newman, Best Director and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were Fanny, The Guns of Navarone, Judgement at Nuremberg and winner West Side Story.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Misfits, 1961 (dir. John Huston)
Perce Howland: You know, I can’t figure you, floatin’ around out here like this. You belong to Gay?
Roslyn Taber: I don’t know where I belong.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Hustler, 1961 (dir. Robert Rossen)
Fast Eddie: Boy, you better, you tell your boys they better kill me, Bert. They better go all the way with me, ’cause if they just bust me up, I’ll put all those pieces back together again, then so help me. . .So help me God, Bert, I’m gonna come back here and I’m gonna kill you.
Movie Quote of the Day – West Side Story, 1961 (dir. Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise)
Maria: Stay back! How do you fire this gun, Chino? Just by pulling this little trigger? How many bullets are left, Chino? Enough for you? And you? All of you! You all killed him. And my brother. And Riff. Not with bullets and guns. With hate! Well, l can kill too, because now l have hate! How many can l kill, Chino? How many, and still have one bullet left for me? [beat] Don’t you touch him!
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