Atlantic City (1980)

Burt Lancaster: Lou

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• Lou : You should have seen the Atlantic Ocean back then.

• Lou : A room. For me and my mother.

• Lou : Don't touch the suit.

• Lou : Yes, it used to be beautiful - what with the rackets, whoring, guns.

• Lou : I'm a lover!

  Grace Pinza : Numbnuts!

• Sally : Why are you doing this for me?

  Lou : Hey, it's nothing, Sinatra gives wings to hospitals. We all do what we can.

• Lou : I made love to this woman today.

  Sally : Daddy, please!

  Lou : I held her in my arms. I made her happy.

  Bus Driver : Let's not be naughty.

  Sally : [to Lou]  It's gonna be okay.

  [to Bus Driver] 

  Sally : That's alright. It's alright.

  [to Lou] 

  Sally : It's gonna be alright. We'll take good care of you.

  Lou : I'm dangerous! People come to me from Las Vegas! I know Bugsy Siegel! I was his cellmate!

• Lou : That's enough!

  Grace Pinza : Nothing's enough.

• Lou : Have I got any winners?

  Fred : Better not have. I can't afford fuckin' winners.

• Grace Pinza : Lou, you get back here. You've got to push the blood back in my feet.

  Lou : I'll be right back.

  Grace Pinza : Lou, come back!

• Grace Pinza : If you leave me alone with her, I'm gonna kill you Lou.

  Lou : Grace, will you listen for just once. This is not medicine.

  [exits] 

  Grace Pinza : I'm still a very important woman in this town. I'm Cookie Pinza's widow! He used to deliver coffee for Cookie. He's my servant.

  Chrissie : Do you know that your whole body ends at the bottom of your feet? You think I am just poking your feet. Well, when I touch this spot here...

  Grace Pinza : Lou.

  Chrissie : This is where your spine is.

  Grace Pinza : Lou!

  Chrissie : When I touch this spot here, this is where your tummy is.

  Grace Pinza : *Lou!*

• Lou : It's all shit now. It's a shame you never saw Atlantic City when it had floy floy. Remember the song, "Flatfoot Floogie with the Floy Floy"?

  Dave : No.

  Lou : Hep cat and zoot suit. That was the floogie part.

  Dave : Yeah?

  Lou : The floy floy. That was something special. Atlantic City had floy floy coming out of its ears in those days. Now it's all so goddamn legal. Howard Johnson running a casino. Tutti-frutti ice cream with craps don't mix.

• Lou : I'd feel bad for a while, but I'd jump into the ocean, swim way out. Come back in feeling nice and clean and start all over again.

  Dave : I never seen the Atlantic Ocean till just now.

  Lou : The Atlantic Ocean was something then. Yes, you should've seen the Atlantic Ocean in those days.

• Lou : Buddy, you live too much in the past.

  Buddy : Yeah. But them were the days.

• Lou : You like Miami?

  Sally : I'm thinking of going to Monaco.

  Lou : Oh, Monaco! That's the place with that Kelly girl from Philadelphia. She's the queen of, huh?

  Sally : Yeah, they have a casino there, very elegant. No women dealers yet, but I'm hoping. Only now I'm learning about music and I'm gonna start reading books. You know, developing some style. Learning languages; because, I really want to travel.

  Lou : You - thinking of leaving Atlantic City?

  Sally : Not for a couple of years. I've got to develop my blackjack. I'm gonna deal my way to Europe, to Monte Carlo.

  Lou : A regular Princess Grace!

• Sally : Teach me stuff.

  Lou : Like what?

  Sally : What you know.

  Lou : You want information or wisdom?

  Sally : Both.

• Sally : What about Grace?

  Lou : She came down here during the war - a beauty contest.

  Sally : Oh, for Miss America?

  Lou : Nothing like that. More like - Miss Pinball Machine.

• Lou : I watch you.

  Sally : Huh?

  Lou : The place where we live. I watch you.

  Sally : Through my window?

  Lou : You saw me?

  Sally : I figured maybe somebody was there.

  Lou : Did you know it was me?

  Sally : You were just this guy across the way.

• Lou : Why do you use lemons?

  Sally : The fish smell. I'm embarrassed.

  Lou : Oh. I thought maybe it was for some other reasons I didn't understand. I even went to a supermarket to look at lemons.

  Sally : It's just to get the smell off. It's nothing weird.

• Sally : What do you do when you watch me?

  Lou : I look at you. You take off your blouse, then you run the water. Then you take a bottle of gold perfume and put it on the sink. Then you slice the lemons. You open a box of blue soap. You run your hands under the water to feel the temperature. Then you take the soap in your hands and...

• Bus Driver : Your daughter will care for you.

  Lou : I got no daughter.

  Bus Driver : Let's not be naughty.

  Sally : Come on, Pops.

• Lou : They got nice weather in Florida.

  Sally : They've got great food in France.