My Man and I (1952)

Shelley Winters: Nancy

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• Nancy : [after Chu Chu tells her about his letter from the President about getting his citizenship]  Ramirez, today you drive a tractor, tomorrow you'll sweat your ears off in some stinking fish cannery. Next week you'll be breaking your back in asparagus, spinach and grapes. And you think you're a citizen First Class? Citizen of what? What you are is a sap, and all you've got is the papers to prove it.

• Nancy : My father was a drunken bum with ten acres and a statewide thirst. By the time I was 12 all he had left was the thirst. That's what he left me in his will, a thirst.

• Nancy : America, the beautiful. You must show me it sometime, I never been there.

• Nancy : [to Ramirez]  I can't stand this car, I can't stand advice, and I can't stand you. Oh, also I can't stand myself.

• Chu Chu Ramirez : Do you go by the Bible?

  Nancy : When it's on my side, I swear by it.

• Nancy : Glass is empty... that's a perfect way to drink to a ghost.