This Could Be the Night (1957)

Anthony Franciosa: Tony Armotti

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• Tony Armotti : That's your opinion, baby.

  Anne Leeds : [angry]  My name is Anne Leeds. You can call me Anne, Miss Leeds or "hey you", anything but baby!

• Ivy Corlane : Friends and neighbours the time is right! This could be the night!

  Tony Armotti : Ivy, could you give a lift? For Hussein get a new name we got to find a costumer who can add X and Y and get Z.

• Tony Armotti : Mike, another slug.

  Waiter : Hey Tony, how come Baby quit?

  Eduardo, the Headwaiter : Roc wants to talk to you, I know that it's none of my business but I'm curious about why Baby quit.

  Tony Armotti : Eddie, please, don't ask me, if you know what's good for you, don't ask me.

• Tony Armotti : Please, not the haughty princess bit. Not when my head is splittin' open.

  Anne Leeds : Oh, would you like me to get you an aspirin?

  Tony Armotti : No, no, no. You can't help me bake a cake either, or pass algebra or get over a heartburn

• Stowe Devlin : I don't know what's come into your life lately, but what it's doing to your disposition is a crime.

  Tony Armotti : Well, it's my life, my club and my disposition.

• Tony Armotti : So what do you want? An amusing item for the eggheads back home? A chapter headed, "Interesting morons I've known"?

• Tony Armotti : I spotted you the minute you opened your mouth.

  Anne Leeds : I may have some sort of New England accent, if that's what you mean, but I can't help it any more than you can help your New York accent.

  Tony Armotti : What New York accent?

• Tony Armotti : I want to talk to Patsy about Patsy. She's been like a sleepwalker all week. You know, it's gettin' so the customers are too polite to applaud. They're afraid they'll wake her up.

• Waiter : Give me a break, Tony.

  Tony Armotti : Oh, you said a mouthful. I'm gonna give you a break!

  [slugs him] 

  Tony Armotti : .

• Tony Armotti : I'm free. I got plenty of dough, a club we run to suit us and not the customers, and sense enough to know when I'm well off.

• Rocco : You know who she reminds me of? My ex.

  Tony Armotti : Oh, that must make you happy. How much was it Tina took you for?

• Anne Leeds : Oh, you must hate doing this so conventionally. What a pity you can't hit me like you did that man in the alley.

  Tony Armotti : Don't kid yourself, honey. If I caught you dipping your fingers in the till, I'd clip you, too. But him I didn't fire because he's good at his job, which you're not. Is that nice and clear?

  Anne Leeds : Perfectly. If you're a thief or a liar, you belong at the Tonic. Otherwise, you don't.

  Tony Armotti : Yeah, you tell 'em, sister. Get a soapbox and tell 'em.

• Tony Armotti : There are two waiters and at least four musicians at the club who I know for a fact hate my guts. Let 'em. I don't care.

  Anne Leeds : Maybe I'm not as insensitive as you are. I do care.

• Tony Armotti : I kissed a good-looking girl. It's happened before, and the chances are pretty good it'll happen again.

• Tony Armotti : I didn't have dime. I was a big load of nothin' walkin' around.

• Tony Armotti : I stood still for a shelacking because I figured I owed you somethin' after ten years. But that paid me up. If you ever raise your voice to me again let alone your hand, I'll beat your brains out.

• Anne Leeds : But I left Massachusetts because I wanted to meet new people and make new friends. Live a litte.

  Tony Armotti : Not in my club.

• Tony Armotti : Do you know anything about the guy?

  Anne Leeds : I know he's one of your best friends.

  Tony Armotti : Well, if you had any sense, that should be enough.

• Tony Armotti : What do you mean hiring a girl like that?

  Waxie London : What do you mean what do I mean hiring a girl like that?

• Ivy Corlane : What's this dolly got that's so special, Roc?

  Rocco : Well, she - she don't know from nuttin'. It's cute.

  Ivy Corlane : You can't mean from nothing?

  Rocco : From nothin'!

  Tony Armotti : That's going a little too far, Roc. She's a hick, I'll grant you; but, so are a lot of farmer's daughters. And you heard about them.

• Tony Armotti : Somethin' tells me you shouldn't be runnin' around loose.

• Rocco : Okay, hot shot, a half a G says baby's what I think she is.

  Tony Armotti : Oh, Roc, come on, what you think she is, there ain't anymore.

  Rocco : How could you recognize one? You haven't met a dame your whole life that wasn't a tramp.

• Tony Armotti : Baby. Baby, you're green all over, aren't you?

  Anne Leeds : I don't think so. My experience maybe limited; but, you don't have to learn things by experiencing them. There are such things as books, you know. You don't have to be a chicken to make an omelet.

• Tony Armotti : His names Hussein Mohammed. What can you expect from kids. They can't see him without yelling, "Hey, Hussein, where's your harem?" If this dope would only laugh at them.

• Tony Armotti : Okay. What's the beef?

  Anne Leeds : Oh, there's no beef.

• Tony Armotti : She's a good guy, that Crystal.

• Tony Armotti : This isn't a place for her.

  Rocco : She don't meet the right element here.

• Tony Armotti : You were plastered; because, two drinks and you're a gone goose.

• Tony Armotti : I think I'm gonna need a drink.

  Anne Leeds : I could use one myself. I hate to disappoint you; but, it won't be my first.

• Tony Armotti : If you ever raise your voice to me again, let alone, your hand; I'll beat your brains out!

• Anne Leeds : Tell him that I came up here on my own.

  Tony Armotti : Believe me, it'd be better to tell him I lured you up here with gum drops.

• Tony Armotti : And from now on, don't work past eleven. I've got a right to some mess around here.