Oliver! (1968)
Ron Moody: Fagin
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Quotes
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Boy : Fagin, this sausage is moldy!
Fagin : Shut up and drink your gin.
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Fagin : [sings] I'm reviewing the situation / Can a fellow be a villain all his life? / All the trials and tribulations. / Better settle down and get myself a wife! / And a wife would cook and sew for me, / And come for me, and go for me, / And go for me, and nag at me, / The fingers, she would wag at me. / The money she would take from me. / A misery, she'll make from me... I think I'd better think it out again!
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[last lines]
Fagin : [singing] Can somebody change? It's possible - maybe it's strange, but it's possible. All my dearest companions and treasures, I've left them behind/ I'll turn a leaf over/ and who can tell what I may find?
[he starts to walk towards London Bridge when Dodger appears behind a post-box]
Fagin : Yes? Young man? And do I have the honor of your acquaintance?
[Dodger shows him a wallet he has just stolen]
Fagin : Lined?
Dodger : Only the best. Lovely workmanship, ain't it?
[Fagin takes the wallet, looks inside and smiles]
Fagin : [sings] I'm reviewing/ the situation...
Dodger : Once the villain, you're a villain to THE END!
Fagin : Your light fingers.
Dodger : Your inspiration.
Dodger : Am I your partner?
Fagin : More a friend. For your talents are employable/ so make your life enjoyable/ a world with pockets open wide/ awaits your whim to grope inside...
Dodger : Collections undetectable...
Fagin : We might retire respectable!
Dodger : Together till our dying day!
Fagin : The living proof that crime can pay!
Fagin , Dodger : I think we'll have to think it out again! Hey!
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Fagin : We must have civil words, Bill. Civil words.
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Fagin : [sings] In this life, one thing counts / In the bank, large amounts / I'm afraid these don't grow on trees, / You've got to pick-a-pocket or two / You've got to pick-a-pocket or two, boys, / You've got to pick-a-pocket or two.
Boy : [sings] Large amounts don't grow on trees. / You've got to pick-a-pocket or two.
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Fagin : Careful Bill, please, no violence!
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Fagin : [singing] A wife you can keep, anyway/ I'd rather sleep, anyway.
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Fagin : [Pointing to the blood stain] There's *blood*... on your coat, Bill!
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Fagin : [to Oliver] Delighted to see you looking so well my Dear! The Dodger will give you another suit for fear you will spoil that Sunday one!
Dodger : [Finding Oliver's money] Cor! Look at this!
Fagin : [to Oliver after taking the money] I'll bank it for ya.
Bill Sikes : What's that? That's mine Fagin!
Fagin : Oh no my Dear. Mine! Ours! You shall have the books.
Bill Sikes : You hand it over you old skeleton!
[Fagin reluctantly Bill the money]
Bill Sikes : . That's for our share of the trouble. You keep the books. Start a library.
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Fagin : [Fagin and the boys are abandoning their hideout as the mob closes in. However, Bill Sikes is determined to escape at all costs using Oliver as a hostage] Bill! Why make things worse? Leave him!
Bill : [holding Oliver in front of him] It's me, they're after! But they won't go for me! Not with the boy close, they won't. So, you keep out of this.
Fagin : [to the boys] Out the back way, come on!
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Fagin : If you go on the way you started, you will be the greatest man of all time. Sweet dreams, Oliver.
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Fagin : Carry cash, at this time of night? All those thieves and robbers lurking in dark alleyways? I wouldn't dare.
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Fagin : Nancy's waiting, give you a good supper.