Carmen Jones (1954)
Harry Belafonte: Joe
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Quotes
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Joe : Thanks, but I don't drink.
Carmen Jones : Boy, if the army was made up of nothin' but soldiers like you, war wouldn't do nobody no good.
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Joe : I'm busted. I gave the last of my pay to the landlady.
Carmen Jones : I got some jingly stuff.
Joe : I ain't gonna let you shell out.
Carmen Jones : We gotta eat, growin' boy.
Joe : Not on your dough.
Carmen Jones : What's mine's yours, Joey, and that goes right down the line.
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Carmen Jones : I don't account to no man.
Joe : You're accountin' to me. I love you and that gives me the right to...
Carmen Jones : That don't give you no right to own me. There's only one that does - and that's me. Myself.
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Joe : I could stay in this place the rest of my life and never go out - as long as you're here. But when you ain't, it's worse than jail. Ain't no light, no air.
Carmen Jones : Suppose I never come back?
Joe : You'd never get away from me. I'd follow you down the rivers, across the sea, to hell or up to heaven. Why'd you ask?
Carmen Jones : Just to hear you say it.
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Carmen Jones : I'd like to toss a party for you tonight at Billy Pastor's. Give you a real send-off. Pick me up at eight. We'll have ourselves a ball.
Joe : Sorry. I got a date.
Carmen Jones : Honeybee, if you change your mind, you know where to buzz me.
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Joe : [singing] She ain't the best, They all the same, Like all the rest, She's just a dame...
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Joe : You double-crossin' tramp!
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Carmen Jones : Can't you get it through your head? We're done. Now let me go.
Joe : I'd sooner kill ya.
Carmen Jones : Then here's your chance.
Joe : [singing] But all I wanna do, Is love you...
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Joe : [singing] Where can I put my memories? They got no sea to drown in...
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Joe : I'll have no man laugh at me while you're rolling around his arms. You stay with me or I'll kill you.
Carmen Jones : Okay. Kill me now or let me go.
Joe : For the last time.
Carmen Jones : For the last time... Here's the ten cent store ring you give me.
[throws the ring away]
Carmen Jones : Now that's the END of you.
Joe : You tramp, you're no good, you never were. Two-timing me like it don't count for nothing. Well, it does. You ain't never gonna do that to no man again.