Brother Orchid (1940)

Edward G. Robinson: John T. Sarto

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Quotes 

• Flo Addams : Johnny, wait a minute. I want you to carry this with you.

  Little Johnny Sarto : What is it?

  Flo Addams : It's a rabbit's foot. A lucky charm. My uncle wore it for 32 years.

  Little Johnny Sarto : A lucky charm, eh? Where'd you get it?

  Flo Addams : From my mother. With her own hand she took it off of my uncle after they hung him.

• Flo Addams : Now, wait a minute, Clarence. Johnny didn't never say no such thing.

  Little Johnny Sarto : Certainly, I didn't. I never said anything about you. Never even thought anything about you.

• Flo Addams : [referring to the travel stickers she's putting inside his trunks]  Look, Johnny, don't it look elegant?

  Little Johnny Sarto : Yeah, it's got class all right. Look, you dumb cluck, you got it pasted on the inside.

  Flo Addams : Sure, it gets scratched on the outside. Anybody's smart enough to know that!

  Little Johnny Sarto : Flo, sometimes you got me guessin' whether you're even a nitwit.

• Little Johnny Sarto : Now, first of all, stop worrying about them flowers. You bring them back to the market tomorrow morning, you'll find that nobody ain't gonna bother you never no more.

• Little Johnny Sarto : [riding with Flo in Clarence's back seat]  What's that whistlin' I hear?

  Flo Addams : That's Clarence makin' birdcalls. He's awful good.

  Clarence P. Fletcher : [makes a hooting sound] 

  Flo Addams : Want him to impersonate a robin?

  Little Johnny Sarto : What'll he do? Eat a worm?

• Little Johnny Sarto : [proposing to go to Willie at a mental institution in Jersey]  Oh, I'll get him all right. This is Little John Sarto. How long will it take us to drive over to where Willie's at?

  Flo Addams : Forty minutes the way you drive.

  Little Johnny Sarto : Oh, good, I'll tell him we'll pick him up.

  Flo Addams : Well, maybe he won't wanna leave. He told me on a postcard he's in a grand hideout and having a swell time with his mental disorder.

  Little Johnny Sarto : If he ever told you that on a postcard, maybe they ought to keep him in there.

• Little Johnny Sarto : What are you doing?

  Brother Goodwin : Shaving your head.

  Little Johnny Sarto : No, you don't!

  [to Brother Superior] 

  Little Johnny Sarto : Do you have to?

  Brother Superior : No, it's quite optional.

  Little Johnny Sarto : [to Brother McEwan]  Well, nothin' doin'. I got my looks to think about.

• Little Johnny Sarto : Yeah? Well, say, that's swell. Heh heh. Say I'm glad you tipped me off. You know I ain't taken a bow in so long. I'm afraid my back will creak.

• Little Johnny Sarto : But you can't change a guy overnight. I'm such a mug that was taught to look for angles. Take things easy and you live a little longer.

• Flo Addams : I didn't double-cross you at Fat Duchy's. I wanted Jack Buck to make up with you. And I was dumb enough to believe him.

  Little Johnny Sarto : Yeah? What do you think now, I'm dumb enough to believe you?

• Little Johnny Sarto : Buck? Jack Buck?

  Brother Superior : Yes. Yes, that's it. How did you know?

  Little Johnny Sarto : Well, it come to me in a dream.

• Little Johnny Sarto : Brother Superior, I'm gonna blab a little. Then I'm gonna blow.

• Little Johnny Sarto : You know, to such a guy like me... love is like a scratch on the back. Sometimes feels good. But a guy can't go along all his life with an itch.

• Little Johnny Sarto : Look, mum. Got any kids?

  Scrub Woman at End : No. I ain't got nothing.

  Little Johnny Sarto : Well, you got something now.