Of Mice and Men (1939)

Roman Bohnen: Candy

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• George Milton : You had a cigarette and a drink and a look at a pretty dress, and it cost you fifteen bucks! You just shot a week's pay to walk on that red carpet!

  Candy : A week's pay? Sure, but I worked weeks all my life. I don't remember none of them weeks, but this - nearly twenty years ago - I remember that.

• Candy : George?

  George Milton : Yeah?

  Candy : I shouldn't a oughta let no stranger shoot my dog. I shoulda shot my dog myself, George.

• Candy : Seems to me like Curly's worse since he got married. Like he's sittin' on an ant hill.

• Slim : Carlson's right, Candy. That poor dog ain't no good to himself. I wish somebody'd shoot me when I get old and crippled.

  Candy : [choked up]  Maybe it would hurt him. I don't mind taking care of him.

  Carlson : He'd be better off dead. The way I'd shoot him he wouldn't feel nothin'.

• Candy : Curly's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. Kinda like he's mad at em, 'cause he ain't a big guy. You've seen a lotta little guys, ain't ya? always spattin'