Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Hope Lange: Elizabeth (Queenie) Martin

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Quotes 

• Queenie Martin : [Queenie walks with her make-up artists]  Alright, gang, here's your challenge. Come on, Annie, stand up and meet your makers. It's okay.

  [Annie stands up] 

  Queenie Martin : Now this has got to be a complete overhaul, kids, from top to bottom.

  Joy Boy : Don't forget a new set of kidneys.

  Queenie Martin : All right, Annie, lets go.

  [leading Annie to the bedroom] 

  Queenie Martin : Come on wizards, let's wiz!

  Dave the Dude : Let's go. Let's go.

  Junior : [Junior shaking his head]  My old lady always said you can't make a pig's ear out of an old sow.

  Pierre : Monsieur, your old lady was not Pierre! Hum!

• Dave the Dude : When I located him on the phone, he cried. Imagine! I cried, too. It was the wettest long-distance call.

  Queenie Martin : You cried? I've never seen you cry.

  Queenie Martin : Oh, when I'm happy, when I'm really happy, I'm a Niagara.

• Dave the Dude : It's okay for you to shake this, you didn't want this in the first place. But, I'm a man. I'm a man that needs a little action.

  Queenie Martin : Action? Prohibition's over, isn't it?

• Queenie Martin : [singing]  Baby, baby, baby... Baby, baby, *baby*... I love you... Hope you love me too, Ooo!

  [talking] 

  Queenie Martin : All right, all right, you wonderful bunch of ex-lawbreakers, this is the last night, the last song, and the last bottle's on the house! Hooray!

• Dave the Dude : I'm making a meeting with our future, sweetheart. Mr. Big, himself.

  Queenie Martin : Not Darcey.

  Dave the Dude : You're right. Darcey.

  Queenie Martin : Oh, Dude, no.

  Dave the Dude : Why?

  Queenie Martin : You're not going to Chicago?

  Dave the Dude : No. The Mountain is comin' to the Dude. I'm not going to Chicago.

• Dave the Dude : Will you get me a pair of pants, will you, please?

  Queenie Martin : You change your own diapers!

  Dave the Dude : I said, "pants me!"

• Dave the Dude : I took you from nothing and made you into something.

  Queenie Martin : For what? So I could become a gangster's flashy moll? Not me, mister.

  Dave the Dude : You ain't walkin' out on me. You ain't walkin' out on me, not on Dave the Dude.

  Queenie Martin : I'm not walking. I'm running.

• Apple Annie : Well, if it isn't my dear friend, the Dave of Dude and his charming broad.

  Dave the Dude : She's just bagged again. You had me worried. Where's the bottle, Annie? All right.

  Apple Annie : So nice of you to come. The Butler will take your things.

  Queenie Martin : Lovely estate you have here, Lady Chatterley.

  Apple Annie : It's nothing really, just something I - I keep for the hunting season. Everybody's coming down for the hunting season, don't you know?

  Queenie Martin : Oh, the flea hunt, isn't it?

• Queenie Martin : I got troubles, Annie, but, boy, you - you need a miracle.

  Apple Annie : What am I going to do?

• Queenie Martin : She's an old souse, maybe, but she's full of dreams.

  Dave the Dude : Ah, she's full of gin.

• Queenie Martin : Well, here they are, the miracle workers. Here's my maid, manicurist, hairdresser, chiropodist, masseuse, and, the pièce de résistance: Pierre of the Saxon Plaza, Pierre the divine. Take a bow, toots.

• Judge Henry G. Blake : I'll do my best, but, at my age, the libido is *most* unpredictable.

  Queenie Martin : Don't worry about that. What did you say?

  Judge Henry G. Blake : Your humble servant, Madam, and your eager spouse.

  Queenie Martin : Oh well, Judge, that's the best offer I've had all day.

  Dave the Dude : No wonder he's droolin'. Listen, you fricasseed Casanova, not her! You're gonna marry Apple Annie.

  Judge Henry G. Blake : Apple Annie?

• Queenie Martin : If I can stall my wedding, he can stall his shortcut to Sing Sing.

• Queenie Martin : We're nothin'! We're a bunch of grabbers. All of us! Lookin' for the best of it! Just once, couldn't we help somebody - just to help somebody?

  Dave the Dude : That's it! You're through, Sister Queenie! That's it. We're just gonna help somebody. We are going to help me! Me! That's who we're gonna help.

• Queenie Martin : [redhead screams]  What's the matter?

  Redhead Chorus Girl : Him! He - he tried to pick my pocket where there ain't no pocket.

• Queenie Martin : Uncle David's already an experienced godfather.