The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

Ann-Margret: Melba

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Quotes 

• [Shooter's wife Melba is altering a jigsaw puzzle piece with a nail file] 

  Shooter : Melba, why do you do that?

  Melba : So it'll fit, stupid.

  Shooter : No, I'm not talking about that. What I'm asking is... do you, uh, have to cheat at everything?

  Melba : At everything?

  Shooter : Yes. At... solitaire. I've yet to see you play one game of solitaire without cheating.

  Melba : So what?

  Shooter : Look, you're just cheating yourself, don't you understand? You'll be the loser, no one else but yourself!... You've ruined the puzzle, now, that doesn't go in there.

  [She forces the altered piece into place] 

  Melba : Does now.

• Melba : Why don't you make us a drink. You know where it is. All that dust at the pit. I always feel so dirty after one of those things.

  Cincinnati Kid : Brings out the best in you, Melba.

• Pig : Can't live with them and can't live without them, huh, Kid?

  Cincinnati Kid : Yeah, that's right, Pig.

  Pig : Don't lose no sweat, Kid. Mine left me too.

  Melba : I wonder why.

• Christian : You'll never guess where we've just been.

  Cincinnati Kid : Stag movies?

  Christian : We went to Turkish baths and we had rubdowns and everything!

  Melba : Yeah. You should have been there.

  Christian : Yeah!

• Melba : He's got him! He's got him! Looks like you're gonna owe us some money, fat boy!

  Pig : Don't spend it, baby. Don't spend it!

• Christian : Well, you and the Shooter are married. Now, that's somethin'.

  Melba : It's nothin'. Believe you me, honey, it's nothin'.

• Melba : [Cincinatti Kid slaps her butt]  Ouch. You Bastard!

  Cincinnati Kid : Cheers baby.

  Melba : I hope you lose.

• Christian : [looking at a swim suit window display]  Would you really wear a thing like that?

  Melba : Why not? I got nothin' to hide. Hey, I bet you'd look good in one too.

  Christian : Oh, no, I couldn't. I just couldn't wear that!

• Melba : I keep forgettin'. You like to steam, don't you, Shooter?

• Melba : You ever been to the - Turkish bath?

  Christian : Turkish baths? French movies? I don't know about you, Melba.

  Melba : Well, then, come on and find out. The Turkish bath leaves *nothin'* to the imagination.

  Christian : But I wouldn't know what to do in a Turkish bath.

  Melba : But that's what's so marvelous. You don't do anything. They do it to ya. Come on!

  Christian : They do it to ya?

• Melba : [phone rings]  Why should I answer? You only get steamed if it's for me.