The Sidewalks of London (1938)

Charles Laughton: Charles Staggers

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• Charles Staggers : Now look 'ere, young woman!

  Harley Prentiss : We've all looked everywhere.

• Charles Staggers : There ain't no answer. You're after justice and logic. There ain't no justice, and there ain't no logic. The world ain't made that way. Everything's luck, see. And good temper. And if you can take a joke. The whole of life's a joke.

• Charles Staggers : I want to marry you! Will you get that?

  Liberty 'Libby' : What!

  Charles Staggers : That's it!

  Liberty 'Libby' : Marry you, Joe? Have you gone out of your mind? I mean you had better look in the frying pan, hadn't you?

• Charles Staggers : Now we have got it clear. First I'm drunk, now I'm loony, then I'm told to lay down in ash because it seems I'm only a beggar. So it don't really count what I say or do! Partnership's off Gentry. That goes for you too Arthur. Off, smashed, finished, washed up. You can all starve and who cares. Our leading lady's got a new job. So I'll get a new job outside buskin'. You think I can't do a man's day, I'll show ya. I'm a man, I am. Though some of you think it funny. If I have to say so, I think it's funny myself. I'm fed up with the humor of it: 'dear old Charles', 'good old Charles'. Yes he's good enough to fetch and carry, good enough to feed the cat when the rest of you can't spare the time but when it comes to give-and-take, work-and-play, man and woman then it's 'good morning to you Charles' 'keep on your own side of the street' the gutter side. All right. But it's I'll who'll say good morning, see? Good morning!... Good morning to you all!