Moe Williams:
Ask a silly question, you get a dopey look.
--Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street
--Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street
Moe Williams:
I have to go on making a living so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waiting for if I've gotta do business with crumbs like you.
--Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street
--Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street
Moe Williams:
Listen, Mister. When I come in here tonight, you seen an old clock runnin' down. I'm tired. I'm through. Happens to everybody sometime. It'll happen to you too, someday. With me it's a little bit of everything. Backaches and headaches. I can't sleep nights. It's so hard to get up in the morning, and get dressed and walk the streets. Climb the stairs. I go right on doin' it! Well, what am I gonna do, knock it? I have to go on makin' a livin'... so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waitin' fer if I gotta do bus'ness with crumbs like you.
--Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street
--Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street
Moe Williams:
What's the matter with you? Playing footsie with the Commies!
Skip McCoy: You waving the flag, too?
Moe Williams: Listen, I knew you since you was a little kid. You was always a regular kind of crook. I never figured you for a louse.
Skip McCoy: Stop, you're breaking my heart.
Moe Williams: Even in our crummy line of business you gotta draw the line somewhere.
--Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street
Skip McCoy: You waving the flag, too?
Moe Williams: Listen, I knew you since you was a little kid. You was always a regular kind of crook. I never figured you for a louse.
Skip McCoy: Stop, you're breaking my heart.
Moe Williams: Even in our crummy line of business you gotta draw the line somewhere.
--Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street
Moe Williams:
You got any Happy Money?
Candy: Happy Money?
Moe Williams: Yeah, money that's gonna make me happy.
--Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street
Candy: Happy Money?
Moe Williams: Yeah, money that's gonna make me happy.
--Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street
Sadie:
Look, I don't teach you about teachin'. Don't teach me about ducks.
--Thelma Ritter (as Sadie Dugan) in A Letter to Three Wives
--Thelma Ritter (as Sadie Dugan) in A Letter to Three Wives
Sadie:
The cap's out. Makes me look like a lamb chop with pants on.
--Thelma Ritter (as Sadie Dugan) in A Letter to Three Wives
--Thelma Ritter (as Sadie Dugan) in A Letter to Three Wives
Sadie:
You oughtn't to run around like that. You'll get consumption.
--Thelma Ritter (as Sadie Dugan) in A Letter to Three Wives
--Thelma Ritter (as Sadie Dugan) in A Letter to Three Wives
Stella:
[to Lisa] You haven't spent much time around cemeteries, have you?
--Thelma Ritter (as Stella) in Rear Window
--Thelma Ritter (as Stella) in Rear Window
