The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

Kim Novak: Molly

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• Frankie Machine : You got any money, Molly?... I feel so sick. I hurt all over...

  Molly : Jump off a roof if you're gonna kill yourself but don't ask me to help ya...

• Frankie Machine : I'll do anything for ya, Molly, but right now, you gotta help me. I need a shot...

  Molly : You mustn't take that dirty stuff no more...

• Frankie Machine : Right now I need a fix. Just one fix to help me stop hurting'...

  [Molly suggests he quit using] 

  Frankie Machine : You mean just stop? Cold turkey? You don't understand... the pain...

  Molly : What else can you do?

  Frankie Machine : All I need is one shot, just one.

  Molly : All right.

  [She takes money from a drawer] 

  Molly : Here. Take it. Go on and take it all. Cause all that you're gonna need after that one shot is another and then another and then another. Take it.

  [She throws her money at him] 

  Molly : Take it. Why should you hurt like other people hurt? Yeah, so you had a dog's life with never a break. Why try to face it like most people do? No, just roll up all your pains into one big hurt and then flatten it with a fix.

• Frankie Machine : He's a lush, Molly. He's a hundred per cent habitual drunk.

  Molly : Look, everybody's an habitual somethin'. With him it's liquor is all.

• Molly : What do you think you'll find just outside that door? Dontcha think the pusher knows what ya are and what ya need? Just to get through that next hour? Don't you know he's just waitin' for ya to come and get it? Go on, let him kill ya. Let him kill ya. It'll be quicker and better than doing it your way.

  Frankie Machine : No. I won't let him kill me. No. And I won't run into no grave.

• Molly : You didn't have to do that, Frankie.

  Frankie Machine : No reason you should go losin' money, by wastin' your time talking to me.

  Molly : You know you're no waste. I was hopin' you'd come see me.

• Molly : I got lonely. I needed somebody and he's a poor beat guy, who needs somebody too.

  Frankie Machine : Everybody needs somebody. But you can do better than him.

• Frankie Machine : You understand?

  Molly : Sure, sure I understand.

  Frankie Machine : You're a good girl, Molly.

  Molly : Sure, real good.

• Frankie Machine : I was thinkin' maybe I'd take a stage name. Jack Duvall.

  Molly : Jack Duvall. Yeah, that's real class.

  Frankie Machine : It is, ain't it?

  Molly : Oh, it's a swell name. Just fits you, Frank.

• Molly : It just doesn't add up. It never did, it never can.

  Frankie Machine : Well, give it a chance. I told you it would one day.

  Molly : All my life has been one day. On and on and on.

• Frankie Machine : You slip me a smile and I'll give you my autograph. You won't have to fight your way through the bobby-soxers to get to me.

  Molly : I bet those bobby-soxers go for you, at that.

• Frankie Machine : I've got a cravin' for something sweet. You got anything sweet?

  Molly : Sugar.

  Frankie Machine : Gimme'.