The Man I Love (1946)

Ida Lupino: Petey Brown

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Quotes 

• Petey Brown : [admiringly]  Hey, O'Connor. What kind of vitamins do you use?

• San Thomas : I'd make you sing the blues, honey.

  Petey Brown : I'll take that chance.

• Petey Brown : Hello, Buddy. But you didn't have that black eye the last time I saw you.

  Buddy Otis : And you didn't have that color hair the last time I saw you.

• Nicky Toresca : I kind of go for that dress you're wearing.

  Petey Brown : I was afraid of that when I put it on.

• San Thomas : Isn't life difficult enough without mixing it up with memories?

  Petey Brown : I don't know. Mine don't go back far enough yet.

• Petey Brown : Honey, why be a sucker all your life? She wouldn't give you the time of day if she had two watches.

• Johnny O'Connor : I work the night shift - I can't take her anywhere.

  Petey Brown : Well, honey, all I can say is you better change to the day shift.

• [last lines] 

  San Thomas : Remember what you once told me when I was low: all of us are standing in the mud, well...

  Petey Brown : Some of us are looking at the stars.

  San Thomas : Here's lookin' at ya, baby.

• Petey Brown : I want to try to do something for her when I get out there. She slings spaghetti for a living. You get awfully tried carrying those trays.

• Petey Brown : [singing]  Someday he'll come along, The man I love, And he'll be big and strong, The man I love, And when he comes my way, I'll do my best to make him stay...

• Petey Brown : Why worry? Worry gives you wrinkles.

• Petey Brown : I'm sort of handy to have around.

  Nicky Toresca : Yeah? Yeah, you might be at that.

• Petey Brown : I know quite a few things and - I sing.

  Nicky Toresca : Oh, so you're a canary too?

  Petey Brown : Some people like it. Care for a sample?

• Nicky Toresca : Maybe you ought to stick around.

  Petey Brown : You think maybe I should?

  Nicky Toresca : I think maybe this town could do a lot for you.

  Petey Brown : I think maybe I could do a little something for this town.

• Petey Brown : Don't strain yourself. I know you're a college man.

• Petey Brown : [singing]  Why was I born? Why am I living? What do I get? What am I giving? Why do I want of things, I daren't hope for? What can I hope for? I wish I knew...

• Sally Otis : It's not her fault that Johnny spoils her so.

  Petey Brown : What she needs from Johnny is a swift kick - in the right place.

• Petey Brown : Life's full of kicks, isn't it?

  San Thomas : That's what I've heard.

• San Thomas : You wanna go back?

  Petey Brown : No, I never wanna go back.

• Petey Brown : Be a gentleman for once in your life and go and get my coat.

• Petey Brown : Well, well, the people you run into when you aren't carrying a gun.

• San Thomas : Why do you think I came down to a joint like this as soon as I could?

  Petey Brown : Yeah. Yeah, I get it. Music. Bad liquor.

  San Thomas : It's hard to break the habit.

  Petey Brown : Well, why would you want to break the habit?

• Nicky Toresca : Nice hunk of jewelry you got there.

  Petey Brown : It was given to me by an admiring friend. Thanks, Nicky. I like it.

  Nicky Toresca : I never did go for that word "friend".

  Petey Brown : A lot less trouble, don't you think?

  Nicky Toresca : Yeah, but, not as much fun.

• San Thomas : I kept trying to make that piano do a lot of things I guess no one guy can do. It started me drinking too much.

  Petey Brown : Yeah. I know what you mean. Everything looks nice and sharp when you've had a couple. But, when the edge wears off, the whole works is a dull finish. It's no good.

  San Thomas : Yeah, that's the way it was with me. Then, I really went haywire.

• Petey Brown : No harm in shopping around for a little happiness together is there?

• Petey Brown : I might have known it'd be a dame. Nothing else makes a guy cave in like that does.

• San Thomas : Petey, you're swell. I don't want to mess up your life too.

  Petey Brown : Look, let me handle my funeral in my own way, will you?

  [kiss] 

• Nicky Toresca : I've been noticing him sitting out there night after night. Its a funny thing, he ain't out there tonight.

  Petey Brown : Maybe he's getting tired of the watered liquor.

• Petey Brown : You certainly worked hard at running away from yourself, haven't you? And you're still unhappy.

  San Thomas : Who's looking for happiness? At the present time, my life's a comfortable blank and that's okay with me.

• Nicky Toresca : Do you think I haven't been keeping my eyes open, don't you? I found out quite a lot about this Mr. Thomas.

  Petey Brown : What are you doing now? Playing cop?

• Petey Brown : She put you through the wringer, didn't she? I wonder what women like that have got?

  San Thomas : I don't know; but, she had it. Whatever it is.

• Petey Brown : Funny how people always try to change each other. It doesn't add up, does it?

• Petey Brown : Always walk in without knocking? You nearly scared me out of my new hair dye.

• Petey Brown : I'm a bigger fool than you San. I need my head examined for ever thinking I could make you forget her. Maybe if I'd worn higher heels and a couple of screwy hats, I'd of stood a better chance. She must be quite a gal to do this to you after all these years.

• San Thomas : And that's it?

  Petey Brown : That's it!

• Petey Brown : Darling, I've been nearly crazy. I didn't know what had happened. I missed you so. Hey, never do this to me again, you big lug, you.

• Petey Brown : She still does something to you, doesn't she?

  San Thomas : Oh, I don't know, Petey. There've been months at a time I never gave her a thought. Then, something happens, it reminds me of her. A screwy hat on some girl passing in the street. A pair of slim legs. High heels clicking in the pavement.

• Petey Brown : I saw her at Toresca's New Year's Eve.

  Sally Otis : With her girlfriend?

  Petey Brown : Well, if it was a girlfriend, she was wearing a moustache and smoking a cigar.

  Sally Otis : What?

• Petey Brown : I guess all dames are alike: possessive. They don't want to share something they feel is theres. Well, I'm no different from the rest of them. And I don't feel like sharing you with her!

• Petey Brown : Johnny, I get a kick out of you calling her "your wife." She's not your wife. You never gave her a chance to be. Well, she's just a pretty little girl you like to spoil and walk down the street with so the guys will turn and whistle. Make you feel important.

• Petey Brown : I guess I just got train whistles in my ears.

• Petey Brown : I hate the fog. It's sort of lonely.