Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith:
[referring to the band] Why don't they play something gay?
[meaning happy]
Bartender: Why don't you acquire a gay viewpoint. It's all mental - every bit of it. Smile and the world smiles with you. Frown and you frown alone.
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: I'd just as soon be alone if it's the same to you.
Bartender: Gratitude.
--George Anderson (as Bartender) in Hail the Conquering Hero
[meaning happy]
Bartender: Why don't you acquire a gay viewpoint. It's all mental - every bit of it. Smile and the world smiles with you. Frown and you frown alone.
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: I'd just as soon be alone if it's the same to you.
Bartender: Gratitude.
--George Anderson (as Bartender) in Hail the Conquering Hero
Philip Marlowe:
She had more than a figure too. Not a beautiful face, but a good face. She had a face like a Sunday School picnic. You have any idea what kind of face that is, Nulty?
Detective Nulty: I wouldn't know.
--George Anderson (as Detective) in Murder, My Sweet
Detective Nulty: I wouldn't know.
--George Anderson (as Detective) in Murder, My Sweet
Jail ward doctor:
[speaking about the fatally wounded Blinky] Beats me. I don't know what keeps him going.
Jim Reardon: Will he be able to talk anymore?
Jail ward doctor: He's dead now - except he's breathing!
--George Anderson (as Jail Ward Doctor) in The Killers
Jim Reardon: Will he be able to talk anymore?
Jail ward doctor: He's dead now - except he's breathing!
--George Anderson (as Jail Ward Doctor) in The Killers