Dorothy Dandridge credited as playing...
Carmen Jones
- Carmen Jones: I always did want to see the big town.
- Frankie: You got your wish, honey. Somethin' tells me Chicago's gonna be real good for you.
- Myrt: Somethin' tells me you gonna be real *bad* for Chicago.
- Joe: Thanks, but I don't drink.
- Carmen Jones: Boy, if the army was made up of nothin' but soldiers like you, war wouldn't do nobody no good.
- Carmen Jones: [singing] Dat's love, You go for me, And I'm taboo, But if you're hard to get, I go for you, And if I do, Den you are through, Boy, my baby, that's the end of you...
- Carmen Jones: Let the old buzzard flap his wings right over me. Till he comes down and gets me, I got a lotta livin' to do.
- Dink Franklin: Look, baby, let's talk turkey. Tomorrow mornin', I gotta produce you in Chicago. I don't care what it costs. Husky Miller will sign the bill. When he goes crazy for a chick, that chick starts lookin' like a neon sign, all lit up with diamonds.
- Carmen Jones: Diamonds ain't what I want of a man. If I love him, he don't need no checkbook. If I don't, a checkbook ain't gonna do him no good.
- Carmen Jones: I want to go someplace where you're the last thing I see at night, first thing I see in the morning.
- Joe: I'm busted. I gave the last of my pay to the landlady.
- Carmen Jones: I got some jingly stuff.
- Joe: I ain't gonna let you shell out.
- Carmen Jones: We gotta eat, growin' boy.
- Joe: Not on your dough.
- Carmen Jones: What's mine's yours, Joey, and that goes right down the line.
- Carmen Jones: I don't account to no man.
- Joe: You're accountin' to me. I love you and that gives me the right to...
- Carmen Jones: That don't give you no right to own me. There's only one that does - and that's me. Myself.
- Carmen Jones: Maybe you ain't got the message yet, but Carmen's one gal nobody puts on a leash. No man's gonna tell me when I can come and go. I gotta be free.
- Joe: I could stay in this place the rest of my life and never go out - as long as you're here. But when you ain't, it's worse than jail. Ain't no light, no air.
- Carmen Jones: Suppose I never come back?
- Joe: You'd never get away from me. I'd follow you down the rivers, across the sea, to hell or up to heaven. Why'd you ask?
- Carmen Jones: Just to hear you say it.
- Carmen Jones: I'd like to toss a party for you tonight at Billy Pastor's. Give you a real send-off. Pick me up at eight. We'll have ourselves a ball.
- Joe: Sorry. I got a date.
- Carmen Jones: Honeybee, if you change your mind, you know where to buzz me.
- Carmen Jones: You're wastin' time right now, Sergeant. Wind's blowin' me in another direction. Ain't no use arguin' with the wind.
- Carmen Jones: Sugar, you ain't gonna take me to the cooler, are ya? Can't do you much good once I'm in jail. What you say we drive to a place I know on the edge of town? I'll show you more fun than you ever had.
- Carmen Jones: [singing] How can a lady drink alone? How can a lady dance alone? No lady can romance alone, I oughta have a sweetie-pie...
- Carmen Jones: Okay, honey. Accelerate me all you want. The harder I get bumped, the more of me bounces.