Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Thomas Mitchell: Gene Gibbons
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Quotes
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Eugene 'Gene' Gibbons : Put your scissors away, Delilah, my hair's all cut.
[looking at her male escort]
Eugene 'Gene' Gibbons : Is this stylish fellow my successor?
Sylvia Marbe : Gene, you're drunk!
Eugene 'Gene' Gibbons : Darling, you understate the case by three bottles and a thousand tears!
[laughs]
Eugene 'Gene' Gibbons : Avaunt!
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Eugene 'Gene' Gibbons : [seeing a waiter put two drinks on the table] Fine, fine! I no longer have to order drinks. I just attract them. He shall have liquor wherever he goes!
[to Engle]
Eugene 'Gene' Gibbons : As I understand from your communication, Mr. Engle, you're on the brink of self-destruction. May I shake your hand? A brilliant idea! I speak as one who has destroyed himself a score of times. I am, Mr. Engle, a veteran corpse. We are all corpses here! This rendezvous is one of the musical graveyards of the town. Caters to zombies hopping around with dead hearts and price tags for souls. Hmmmp!
[offering him one of the drinks]
Eugene 'Gene' Gibbons : Will you join me, sir? It is the custom here for the dead to drink - heavily!
[drinks]
Eugene 'Gene' Gibbons : Allow me to present my credentials as a fellow cadaver. I'm being divorced by my wife whom I love dearly in my own nasty way. I was disemboweled by another woman. I have written three bad plays in a row, and next year I'll write a worse one. I have neither a home, a single hope, nor a shred of curiosity left. Bankrupt and broke, I've destroyed myself, sir, in becoming famous. I am no longer a man, Mr. Engle, I'm an epitaph over an ash can! And now, sir, what's your story?
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Eugene 'Gene' Gibbons : They'll deal you hope off the bottom.
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Eugene 'Gene' Gibbons : Yesterday's pain is tomorrow's joke. And you'll always end up laughing if you can manage not to cut your throat first.
