Sterling Silver Dialogue #5

Sterling Silver Dialogue From The Movies: 

Do you know where they're from?

"You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big."

(reply) "I am big. It's the pictures that got small."

(response) "Uh huh, I knew there was something wrong with them." 

"I'm not an executive, just a writer."

(reply) "You are? Writing words, words, more words! Well, you've made a rope of words and strangled this business: A-ha! But there's a microphone right there to catch the last gurgle, and Technicolor to photograph the red, swollen tongue!"

"Roger O. Thornhill. What does the O stand for?"

(reply) "Nothing." 

"Now wait a minute you listen to me: I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders dependent upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself slightly killed." 

"It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yes. But what does it do to my mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent, supremely competent. I'm walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones. I'm Michelangelo, molding the beard of Moses. I'm Van Gogh, painting pure sunlight. I'm Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto. I'm John Barrymore before the movies got him by the throat. I'm Jesse James and his two brothers, all three of 'em. I'm W. Shakespeare. And out there it's not Third Avenue any longer, it's the Nile, Nat. The Nile and down it moves the barge of Cleopatra. Come here: Purple the sails, and so perfumed that the winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke..."

(After getting the drink orders from his guests he turns to his wife) "Martha?... Rubbing alcohol for you?" 

“I'd like to say I didn’t intend to kill her, but when you have a gun, you always intend when you have to…”

"And as for going around with you, I still pick my own gutters."

"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal! That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems. One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petrodollars, Electro-Dollars, MultiDollars, Reichmarks, RINs, Rubles, Pounds, and Shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And YOU. WILL. ATONE!  Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, mini-max solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquillized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen... you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel." 

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Sterling Silver Dialogue #4

Sterling Silver Dialogue From The Movies: 

Do you know where they're from?

"Why didn't you come home before?" (reply) "Why didn't I go to China? Some things you do, some things you don't."

"Home is where you come when you run out of places."

"Aren't there any more comfortable men in this world? Now they're all little and nervous like sparrows or big and worried like sick bears."

"Big mouth, fast dollar. What are you tryin' to buy, the world's approval?"

"That Mae is some dancer. Me, I'm like a hippo on two feet. (Mae's response) "Yeah, MY two feet." 

"Jerry's the salt of the earth... but not the right seasoning for you."

"You don't like women, do you?" (reply) "Take any six of 'em - my wife included. Throw 'em up in the air. The one who sticks to the ceiling, I like."

"I'm sorry I got the jumps tonight. I'm talkin' to ya but what I'm thinkin' is: What's my wife doin' in St. Louis... who's she with? Some day I'm going to stick her full of pins just to see if blood comes out."

(After an engagement has been announced) "Congratulations. I'm glad you put the guy out of his misery" (response) "Since when did you start recommending marriage?" (reply) "Since I got my divorce."

"I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said 'yes' to a divorce."

"She can't be all bad... no one is." (reply) "Well, she comes the closest."

"You can never help anything, can you? You're like a leaf that the wind blows from one gutter to another." 

"I don't want to die." (reply) "Neither do I, Baby, but if I have to, I'm going to die last." 

"I need him like the axe needs the turkey."

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Sterling Silver Dialogue #3

Sterling Silver Dialogue From The Movies: 

Do you know where they're from?

"You should learn to live as though you didn't exist."

"How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants." 

"I've done a lot of lying in my time. I've lied to men who wear belts. I've lied to men who wear suspenders. But I'd never be so stupid as to lie to a man who wears both belt and suspenders."

"Do you drink a lot?" (reply) "Not a lot - just frequently."

"You're drunk!"   (reply) "And you're crazy. But I'll be sober tomorrow and you'll be crazy for the rest of your life."

"I envy people who drink. At least they know what to blame everything on."

"I distrust a man who says 'when'. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does."

"I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes."

(when propositioned for sex) "What am I, a bowl of fruit? A tangerine that peels in a minute?" 

"You've got more twists than a barrel of pretzels."

"That's fish four days old. I won't buy it!"

"Sidney, this syrup you're giving out, you pour over waffles, not JJ Hunsecker".

"I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic." 

"You're like a horse or a dog or a man or any other woman... Once I understand you, you're all right." 

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Sterling Silver Dialogue #2

Sterling Silver Dialogue From The Movies: 

Do you know where they're from?

"Twelve grand would have swung it (buying his horse farm back) and I almost made it once. I had more than five thousand dollars in my pocket. Pampoon was runnin' in the Suburban. I figured he couldn't lose... I put it all on his nose. He lost by a nose."

"One way or another, we all work for a vice." 

"What's in it for me?"

"What are ya sweatin' for?" (reply) "Money makes me sweat that's all... it's the way I am."

"After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor."

"Haven't you bothered me enough you big banana head?" 

(hypnotically) "Now you will hear a voice say Now Listen To Me. You will always obey this voice. Now listen to me. Listen to me..." 

"I feel for ya... but I'm consumed with apathy." 

(when offered a free prostitute) "I don't sleep with whores... at least not knowingly."

"Is it true you're getting a divorce as soon as your husband recovers his eyesight? Is it true you wash your hair in clam broth? Is it true you used to dance in a flea circus?"

"How many times do I have to tell ya how much you love me?"

"Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of." 

"The bottom is loaded with nice people, Albert. Only cream and bastards rise."

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Sterling Silver Dialogue #1

Sterling Silver Dialogue From The Movies: 

Do you know where they're from? 

(In amazement) "Silver Rings." (In reply) "Silver rings your butt... THEM'S WASHERS!"  

"We've got to start looking beyond our guns... those days are closing fast." 

"We all dream of being a child again... even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all." 

"Pleeeease... cut the fuse... Pleease." 

"Pull The String!" 

"DO IT... SLICK."  

"Go Ahead... Make My Day."

"When you have to shoot... shoot. Don't talk."  

"Whatever you decide, don't do it out of guilt." 

"Well... what's it gonna be Mr. Pink?" 

"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?" 

Answers to Sterling Silver Dialogue #1 are here.