Sweet Charity (1969)

Chita Rivera: Nickie

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• Nickie , Fandango Taxi Girls : [singing]  Hey Big Spender! Hey Big Spender! Hey Big Spender, Spend a little time with me. Fun! Laughs! Good times! Fun! Laughs! Good times! Fun! Laughs! Good times!

  Nickie : How's about it, Palsy?

  Nickie , Fandango Taxi Girls : Yeah!

• Nickie , Helene : [singing]  The minute you walked in the joint, I could see you were a man of distinction

  Nickie , Helene , Fandango Taxi Girls : A real big spender, Good Iookin', So refined...

  Nickie , Helene : Say, wouldn't you like to know what's goin' on in my mind?

• Nickie : [to Charity]  You know what your big problem is? You run your heart like a hotel. You got guys checkin' in and out all the time.

  Helene : And you always get stuck with the bill.

• Nickie : Forget him, baby. We got a livin' to make. If you call this a livin'.

• Nickie , Herman , Fandango Taxi Girls : [singing]  So let me get right to the point, I don't pop my cork, For every guy I see...

• Nickie : [singing]  All these jokers, how I hate them, With their groping

  Helene : Grabbing

  Nickie : Clutching

  Helene : Clinching

  Nickie : Strangling

  Helene : Handling

  Nickie : Fumbling

  Helene : Pinching

  Nickie , Helene : Phooey! There's gotta be some life cleaner than this, There's gotta be some good reason to live, And when I find me some kind of life I can live, I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna get out, I'm gonna get up, get out, and live it!

• Nickie : What you do in bed is your business.

  Charity Hope Valentine : You see? I wasn't even in bed. I was in the closet.

  Nickie : To each his own.

• Charity Hope Valentine : I already told him.

  Nickie : You told him?

  Charity Hope Valentine : Yup.

  Helene : You mean you *really* told him?

  Charity Hope Valentine : Yes, I told him! I told him!

  Nickie : When?

  Charity Hope Valentine : Tomorrow, that's when I told him.

• Nickie : If a guy kisses your hand, would you classify that as a pass?

  Helene : Depends.

  Nickie : On what?

  Helene : On where your hand is when he kisses it.

• Nickie : Okay, so besides slobbering all over your knuckles, what else does he do?

• Nickie : Oh, Charity, I gotta hand it to you. You are an extremely honest, open, and stupid broad.

• Nickie : How are things going with the goofball?

  Charity Hope Valentine : Who?

  Nickie : You know, the hand kisser.

  Charity Hope Valentine : Him? Who needs him? I don't need him. I don't need anybody, and, if I needed anybody, it sure wouldn't be him.

  Helene : She's nuts about him.