Guys and Dolls (1955)

Frank Sinatra: Nathan Detroit

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• Nathan Detroit : Southstreet, give your testimony.

  Benny Southstreet : I plead the fifth commandment.

• Miss Adelaide : And what was that about?

  Nathan Detroit : His wife's having a baby.

  Miss Adelaide : But why is he asking you?

  Nathan Detroit : He's nervous, it's his first wife.

• Nathan Detroit : I have been running the crap game since I was a juvenile delinquent.

  Miss Adelaide : Speaking of chronic conditions, happy anniversary.

• Lieutenant Brannigan : What brings all these senior delinquents together?

  Nathan Detroit : They got lonely. How am I supposed to know?

  Lieutenant Brannigan : And why are they all wearing red carnations?

  Nathan Detroit : They are also all wearing pants.

• Nathan Detroit : If a guy did not have a doll, who would holler on him?

• Nathan Detroit : [reading Big Jule's marker]  "IOU one thousand. Signed X." How can you write "one thousand" but not your signature?

  Big Jule : I was good in arithmetic but I stunk in English.

• Nathan Detroit : Everybody in the whole world who hates me is now here.

• Nathan Detroit : [to Nicely and Benny]  Take Adelaide to the Hot Box. In a cab.

  Miss Adelaide : But it's only a couple of blocks.

  Nathan Detroit : The streets are covered with tourists and I do not want you molested.

• Nathan Detroit : [after declining a bet that he cannot say what color his tie is]  Polka dots. In the whole world, only Nathan Detroit could blow a thousand bucks on polka dots.

• Nathan Detroit : [singing]  What's playing at the Roxy? I'll tell you what's playing at the Roxy. Picture about a Minnesota man so in love with a Mississippi girl that he sacrifices everything and moves all the ways to Biloxi. That's what's playing at the Roxy.

  Benny Southstreet : [singing]  What's in the daily news? I'll tell you what's in the daily news. Story about a guy who bought his wife a small ruby with what otherwise would have been his union dues. That's what's in the daily news.

  Nicely Nicely Johnson : [singing]  What's happening all over? I'll tell you what's happening all over. Guy sitting home by a television set who used to be something of a rover. That's what's happening all over.

  Nathan Detroit , Benny Southstreet , Nicely Nicely Johnson : [singing]  Love is the thing that has licked 'em!

  Nathan Detroit : [singing]  And it looks like I'm just another victim.

• Nathan Detroit : As you can see, Big Jule, the boys are fatigued from weariness.

  Big Jule : I don't care who's tired. I'm out 25 Gs. Nobody leaves.

  Rusty Charlie : I am half dead.

  Harry the Horse : If you do not shut up, Big Jule will arrange the other half.

• Nathan Detroit : Would you not agree that Mindy's cheesecake is the best cheesecake alive?

• Big Jule : Tell me, how long have you known the doll?

  Nathan Detroit : 14 years.

  Big Jule : Let's shoot crap!

• Nathan Detroit : Still, you will admit that Mindy's cheesecake is the greatest alive.

  Sky Masterson : Gladly. Furthermore, I am quite partial to Mindy's cheesecake.

• Nathan Detroit : It does not seem possible. Me without a livelihood. Why, I've been running the crap game since I was a juvenile delinquent.

  Benny Southstreet : But, Nathan, the situation is desperate. You have got to think of something.

  Nathan Detroit : My only thought costs 1,000 bucks. I cannot even afford to think.

• Miss Adelaide : In Rhode Island people do not remain engaged for 14 years. They get married.

  Nathan Detroit : So how come it's such a small state?