The Big Street (1942)

Henry Fonda: Little Pinks

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Quotes 

• [about Gloria] 

  Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II : She's in bad shape, Doc. Can you do something?

  Florida Doctor : I wish I could.

  Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II : Why can't you?

  Florida Doctor : Did you ever hear of a thing called paranoia? No, I guess you didn't. Well, it's what happens to people when they get to believe they're something they're not.

  Nicely Nicely Johnson : Now you're cooking with gas.

  Violette Shumberg : Shut up, Nicely.

  Nicely Nicely Johnson : Don't tell me to shut up.

  Violette Shumberg : I'll tell you to shut up anytime I feel like it, and I feel like it now.

  Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II : Please go on, Doc.

  Florida Doctor : They can go on for a long time and be okay, except when the illusion is shattered. Then they kind of wither up and... phht. Unless it's restored.

  Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II : But if it is...

  Florida Doctor : I'm afraid what that young lady wants, she'll never get.

  Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II : But we can't just stand around and let her die!

  [the doctor walks away sadly] 

  Violette Shumberg : He ain't a very good doctor, Pinks. Why, last months he treated Nicely for a cold, and it turned out to be chicken pox.

  Nicely Nicely Johnson : You don't have to be telling everybody I had chicken pox at my age.

  Violette Shumberg : If you had chicken pox, you had them. And you had them.

• Gloria Lyons : You know something, Pinks?

  Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II : What?

  Gloria Lyons : A lot of people can't walk... they knit something. I'd be a lousy knitter, but I could sure try.

• Louie - Headwaiter : [Little Pinks, busboy, is busily scavenging leftover champagne and caviar from a restaurant table to take to Gloria]  It's none of my business, Pinks, but can't that dame of yours eat nothin' but champagne and caviar?

  Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II : She's on a diet.