Pennies from Heaven (1981)
Bernadette Peters: Eileen
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Quotes
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Eileen : How much is a glass of lemonade?
The Bartender : It's been so long since I sold one. I don't know. For you, two cents?
Eileen : Yes. I'll have a glass of lemonade, please.
The Bartender : Are you sure you came to the right place, sweetie?
Tom : Have a drop of gin in that, honey.
Eileen : Pardon?
Tom : That's a very nice drink for a lady, gin and lemonade.
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Eileen : Hello, Father.
Father Everson : Come on, Eileen.
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Arthur Parker : I overheard you say you were a teacher and I asked some of the kids where you lived.
Eileen : Why?
Arthur Parker : I've been looking for you. All my life, I've been looking for you, Miss Everson.
Eileen : I don't understand.
Arthur Parker : You've been in my head, Eileen, and in my heart, in my soul.
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Arthur Parker : There's a song. Like in the song.
Eileen : What?
Arthur Parker : They tell the truth. Songs do!
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Eileen : I don't even know who you are.
Arthur Parker : Arthur. I'm Arthur - and I love you.
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Arthur Parker : I haven't offended you, I hope.
Eileen : I'm not very at ease with people. Men, I mean.
Arthur Parker : That's all right, honey. I got enough moxie for both of us.
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Eileen : You won't tell lies, will you? Arthur?
Arthur Parker : Not if I can help it.
Eileen : And you're not married, are you?
Arthur Parker : Do I look like a married man? I even got a hole in my sock.
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Eileen : No, I'm scared. Arthur. I never - I never - Arthur.
Arthur Parker : Oh, Eileen, take the pain away. Oh, please. Take the pain away, Eileen. Please. Please.
Eileen : Oh, I'll try. I'll try. I'll try, Arthur. I'll try. Arthur. Oh! Oh! Poor Arthur. Poor...
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Eileen : I wanted you, you see.
Arthur Parker : Did you?
Eileen : Oh, yes.
Arthur Parker : And you still do, don't you? You still do.
Eileen : I still do.
Arthur Parker : I never in all my life! I've never heard a woman talk like that! Just like that.
Eileen : It's not decent, is it?
Arthur Parker : God, it's - it's marvelous!
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Arthur Parker : In a band, this man and woman singer, they...
Eileen : Arthur, what has this got to do with being married?
Arthur Parker : Just a minute. A minute. At the hotel where they were playing, see, they gave the elevator operator a $20 bill to stop the elevator between floors and turn his back.
Eileen : Do people do things like that?
Arthur Parker : Like what, Eileen?
Eileen : Make love in an elevator.
Arthur Parker : You mean, like kissing, do you?
Eileen : Oh, is that all?
Arthur Parker : Oh, Eileen! Eileen! That's a good girl! You knew what I was talking about. Would you ever do that? What they did?
Eileen : Between which floors, Arthur?
[mime singing a song performed by Helen Kane]
Eileen : If it's naughty to rouge your lips, Shake your shoulders and shake your hips, Let a lady confess, I want to be bad!
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The Bartender : The one's on the house, honey. Just drink it down and go home, like a good little girl.
Eileen : It taste like poison!
The Bartender : Then, don't have another. Some girls it doesn't suit.
Tom : You never know what you like till you try it.
Eileen : That's true.
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Eileen : What do you want to do to me?
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Tom : What's your name?
Eileen : Lulu.
Tom : That's a very nice name.
Eileen : I don't like it very much. It makes me sound cheap.
Tom : Nah! Nobody would ever say that, Lulu. Hey, come here. Come here. Now, look at that big, fat whore over there. That's what I call cheap.
The Old Whore : Who are you looking at?
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Eileen : [mime singing a song performed by Walter S. Harsh, Gene Merlino, Vern Rowe, Robert Tebow and Al Vescovo] People are queer, they're always crowing, scrambling and rushing about...
Eileen , Arthur Parker , Joan Parker : Why don't they stop someday, address themselves this way? Why are we here? Where are we going? It's time that we found out, We're not here to stay; we're on a short holiday...
Eileen , Arthur Parker : Life is just a bowl of cherries, Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious...
Eileen , Arthur Parker , Joan Parker : You work, you save, you worry so, But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go...
Eileen , Arthur Parker : So keep repeating it's the berries...
Eileen , Arthur Parker , Joan Parker : The strongest oak must fall...
Joan Parker : Must fall...
Eileen , Arthur Parker , Joan Parker : The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned...
Eileen : So tell me...
Eileen , Arthur Parker , Joan Parker : How can you lose what you've never owned? Life is just a bowl of cherries, So live and laugh at it all...
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Arthur Parker : God, why is it so - ? Why can't the world - ?
Eileen : Because that's the way it is.
Arthur Parker : But I want to live in a world where the songs come true. There must be someplace where them songs are for real.
Eileen : "Happy Days Are Here Again." Is that it, Arthur?
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Eileen : Dance tunes don't help, Arthur. What am I gonna do?
Arthur Parker : Can't you go back home?
Eileen : No. I was already dead there. This way feels like dying, but I can see everything, feel everything. Do you understand?
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Arthur Parker : Did you - ? Did you like doing it - for money?
Eileen : It wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be.
Arthur Parker : My God, you're something. We're the same sort, you and me.
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Eileen : Arthur, you'll never be satisfied. Not somebody like you.
Arthur Parker : Don't say that.
Eileen : You're like the children in my class.
Arthur Parker : But you're still sweet on me, ain't you? You still want me. Huh, Eileen? Tell the truth.
Eileen : Yes, I do.
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Eileen : Lulu I am, Lulu I stay.
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Arthur Parker : Jesus Christ, Eileen, you're beginning to sound like my wife.
Eileen : I'm not surprised, poor woman.
Arthur Parker : What is it about women? Do your mothers teach it to you or what?
Eileen : I hardly ever knew my mother, poor soul. She worked her fingers to the bone, and for what? Life with a stove and a washtub and - oh, what's the use? She was dead at 45.
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Eileen : We only got one life, Arthur.
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Arthur Parker : Where are you going?
Eileen : Are the seams on my stockings straight?
Arthur Parker : You got terrific legs, baby.
Eileen : Let's hope so.
Arthur Parker : Hey, what are you gonna do?
Eileen : Get some dough!
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Arthur Parker : Hey, you're not gonna cry, are you? There's gotta be something on the other side of the rainbow.
Eileen : There always is.
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Arthur Parker : Always the same.
Eileen : What is?
Arthur Parker : Come out of the movies, the goddamn world has changed. Goddamn rain.
Eileen : Forget it! We'll be "Singin' In the rain, Just singing' in the rain."
Newsboy : Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Chicago song salesman hunted in blind-girl murder! Chicago song salesman hunted in blind-girl murder! Song salesman hunted in blind-girl murder!
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Eileen : We've only got one life, Arthur. We both know we made a mess of ours. It doesn't seem to matter much how it ends, does it?
Arthur Parker : Doesn't it?
Eileen : No.
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Arthur Parker : I want you. I want you now.
Eileen : What, here?
Arthur Parker : It's the only way I can keep going. Besides, we ain't never done it in a car, have we?
Eileen : We must be crazy.
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Eileen : Do you have any idea where we are?
Arthur Parker : We're in the middle of nothing! Just where I always wanted to be.
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Eileen : Arthur, what are you doing here?
Arthur Parker : Whoever said you could stop a dream?
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Arthur Parker : [singing] As long as there's the two of us, We've got the world and all it's charms...
Eileen : When the world is through with us, We've got each others arms.
