Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
Shelley Winters: Nellie Romano
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Quotes
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Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : I was just thinking of the beauty and charm of life here on West Madison.
Wart : Yeah, you'll get used to it Judge, when you've been here as long as we have.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Some place to bring up a boy. Deadbeats hanging round every corner. Hopheads, begging, borrowing, stealing to buy a few cc's of delirium.
Fran : Come on, Judge, don't do that.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Nick won't have a chance. By the time he's twelve he'll have the soul of toadstool. Somebody has to tell her. Nellie needs help, if Nick's gonna make it.
Fran : Well, I will, I'll help.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Why don't you all? I, I mean, why don't we...
Flora : What have we got to give a boy? Just our own miseries.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Who knows more about miseries, Flora? Who knows more about life than you or Wart or me?
Wart : Yeah but what kind of a life?
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : The kind of life we don't want Nick to have.
Goodbye George : Judge, you mean you want us all to, er, kind of adopt Nick?
Max : You know, he's right.
Wart : Maybe you got something.
Nellie Romano : Hey, are you all serious?
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Who else is there to help you, Nellie?
Wart : Are you for it, Nellie?
Nellie Romano : Yes, I am for it.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : A toast! A toast to the future of Nick Romano!
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Nellie Romano : Boy, am I ever sick of this joint.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Leave it. Get another job.
Nellie Romano : One job's as good as another. I mean, if you don't know anything, like me.
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Nellie Romano : I'm sick of lousy bars. I'm sick of drunks. I'm sick of everything and everybody around here. Now, leave us alone. All of you!
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Merry Christmas to all.
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Nellie Romano : Nicky, pretty soon this will all be over. You'll have your education and then maybe you'll be playing the piano with a symphony orchestra and everyone will be applauding and I'm gonna sit in the audience and just get fat.
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Nick Romano : Maybe I can bring in some money so you wouldn't have to do so much, so you wouldn't have to wear dresses like that.
Nellie Romano : What's the matter? You don't like this dress?
Nick Romano : You know what I mean. It's a kind of a dress.
Nellie Romano : It's a kind of a dress I have to wear for a kind of a job.
Nick Romano : Yeah, but, maybe I can make enough money so you wouldn't have to work in those clip joints, so you wouldn't have to go around dressed like a b-girl.
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Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : You look worried.
Nellie Romano : Does it show that much?
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Well, I see all and know all. I'm a Genie that lives in a brown bottle.
Nellie Romano : Yeah, I know. I can smell it.
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Nellie Romano : You look like somebody I - knew.
Louis Ramponi : Maybe, I am.
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Nellie Romano : Why haven't I ever seen you around before?
Louis Ramponi : You want to buy me a drink?
Nellie Romano : You're supposed to buy me a drink. That's the way it goes here, you know.
Louis Ramponi : Well, time out, baby.
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Nellie Romano : Louis, give me more, give me more.
Louis Ramponi : Not now, baby. Later.