Paper Moon Movie Quotes
Addie Loggins
Daddy, I need to go to the shithouse.
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Trixie Delight
[to Addie]
Kiddo, I understand how you feel. But you don't have to worry. One of these days you're gonna be just as pretty as Mademoiselle. Maybe prettier. You already got bone structure. When I was your age I didn't have no bone structure. Took me years to get bone structure. And don't think bone structure's not important. Nobody started to call me "Mademoiselle" 'til I was seventeen and getting a little bone structure. When I was your age, I was skinnier than a pole. I never thought I'd have nothin' up here.
[Pointing to her chest]
Trixie Delight
You're gonna have 'em up there too. Look, I'll tell you what. Want me to show you how to use cosmetics?
[Pulls off earrings and holds them in palm]
Trixie Delight
Look, I'll let you put on my earrings. You're gonna see how pretty you're gonna be. And I'll show you how to make up your eyes. And your lips. And I'll see to it you get a little bra or somethin'. But right now, you're gonna pick your little ass up, you're gonna drop it in the back seat, and you're gonna cut out the crap! You understand?
[Turns around, starts to walk away, then turns back around]
Trixie Delight
You're going to ruin it, ain't ya? Look, I don't wanna wipe you out. And I don't want you wipin' me out, you know? So, I'm gonna level with you, okay? Now, you see with me it's just a matter of time. I don't know why, but somehow I just don't manage to hold on real long. So, if you wait it out a little it'll be over, you know? I mean, even if I want a fella, somehow or other I manage to get it screwed up. Maybe I'll get a new pair of shoes, a nice dress, a few laughs. Times are hard. Now, if you fool around on the hill up here, then you don't get nothin', I don't get nothin', he don't get nothin'. So, how 'bout it, honey? Just for a little while, let ol' Trixie sit up front with her big tits.
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Moses Pray
[calling up to Addie on the hill]
Let's go!
Trixie Delight
Hurry up, Doctor. This baby gots to go winky tinky!
Moses Pray
[patting Trixie's shoulder]
Don't worry.
[calling up to Addie again]
Moses Pray
Hey!
[Moses starts walking up the hill]
Moses Pray
Come on, we're ready! Come on, now!
Addie Loggins
I ain't comin'!
Moses Pray
You listen here, child...
Addie Loggins
No, I won't listen here.
Moses Pray
What the heck's up with you then?
Addie Loggins
I wanna sit in front! And how come we ain't workin' no more?
Moses Pray
'Cause we're on vacation, that's why, and Miss Delight and me are sittin' in front because we are two grown-ups and that's where grown-ups do the sittin'! And little children do not tell grown-ups what to do with their lives, you understand that?
Addie Loggins
Well, she ain't my grown-up and I ain't plannin' no more to sit in the back. Not for no cow!
Moses Pray
Will you keep your voice down? And Miss Delight ain't no cow. She's a proper woman. She has a high school diploma. And right now she's got to go to the bathroom, so you get on down to the car!
Addie Loggins
She always has to go to the bathroom! She must have a bladder the size of a peanut! Well, I ain't gettin' back in that car... not until she gets out of it!
[disgusted, Moses goes back to the car and talks to Trixie]
Trixie Delight
[making her way up the hill]
Hey, what's up, kiddo? Daddy says you're wearin' a sad face. Ain't good to have a sad face. Hey! Hey! How'd you like a coloring book? Would you like that? You like Mickey the Mouse?
[Trixie trips and falls]
Trixie Delight
Oh, son of a bitch!
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Addie Loggins
I want my two hundred dollars.
Moses Pray
I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.
Addie Loggins
If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.
Moses Pray
But I don't have it!
Addie Loggins
Then get it!
Cafe Waitress
[walks over after Moses slams his fist on the table]
How we doin', Angel Pie? We gonna have a little dessert when we finish up our hot dog?
Addie Loggins
I don't know.
Cafe Waitress
What do you say, Daddy? Why don't we give Precious a little dessert if she eats her dog?
Moses Pray
Her name ain't Precious.
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Addie Loggins
I want my two hundred dollars!
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Addie Loggins
Imogene, what do you suppose Miss Trixie'd do if somebody offered her $25 to put out.
Imogene
Ooo Wee! You crazy? For that much money, that woman'd drop her pants down in the middle of the road!
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Addie Loggins
Why don't you quit?
Imogene
Quit! Now, how am I gonna quit? And what if I do quit, I ain't got no money to get home to Mama. And what if I do get home, they got hard times as it is. My Mama say, "You go work for that white lady, she'll take good care of you."
[Rolls her eyes]
Imogene
You wanna know what I think?
Addie Loggins
Yeah.
Imogene
You know the little white speck on top of chicken doo-doo?
Addie Loggins
Yeah.
Imogene
Well, that's the kind of white I think miss Trixie is. She's just like that little white speck on top of old chicken shit.
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Moses Pray
I know a woman who looks like a bullfrog but that don't mean she's the damn thing's mother.
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Moses Pray
Eat your Coney Island!
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[about Trixie Delight]
Addie Loggins
How come she had to leave that job back there?
Imogene
Cause the boss-man tried to make her put out for his friends, and she don't believe in puttin' out for free!
Addie Loggins
She put out much?
Imogene
Just like a gum machine. You drop some in and she'll put some out.
Addie Loggins
How much she charge?
Imogene
Most she can get. But, she always asks for five dollars.
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Moses Pray
I told you, I don't want you ridin' with me no more.
Addie Loggins
You still owe me two hundred dollars.
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Imogene
[of Miss Trixie]
I tried to push her out of a window in Little Rock once.
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Trixie Delight
I just don't understand it, Daddy, but this little baby has got to go winky tinky all the time.
Moses Pray
Well, don't you worry none. We'll just plan on stoppin' here for dinner.
Addie Loggins
[furious]
But we just stopped for her to winky tink at lunch!
Moses Pray
That's right and now we're stoppin' for dinner. Come on!
Addie Loggins
I ain't hungry!
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Addie Loggins
[about the Harem Slave show at carnival]
How many times you gonna see it?
Moses Pray
As many times as I like, that's how many times!
Addie Loggins
You've seen it half a dozen already.
Moses Pray
And I might see it half a dozen more! Now why don't you go play bingo or somethin'?
Addie Loggins
I don't wanna play bingo!
Moses Pray
Then why don't you go write another love note to Saint Roosevelt?
Addie Loggins
Maybe I will!
Moses Pray
And stop standing around here checking on me! You don't have to worry. I ain't about to leave some poor little child stranded in the middle of nowhere. I've got scruples too, ya know. You know what that is... scruples?
Addie Loggins
No, I don't know what it is but if you've got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!
[Addie stalks off]
Moses Pray
[calling after Addie about President Roosevelt]
And his name ain't Frank, it's Franklin!
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Moses Pray
I want one child's price ticket.
Station Master
That will be 11.45.
Moses Pray
I want you to send this here telegram to Miss Billie Roy Griggs of Cosmo Road, St. Joseph: "Train arriving 9:52 AM and bringing love, affection, and 20 dollars cash." Oh, make that "25 dollars cash", and sign it just "Addie Loggins".
Station Master
10 words, that will be eighty-five cents more, that will be 12 and 30.
Moses Pray
12 and 30, huh? You better say in that message there "Love, affection, and 20 dollars cash."
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[last lines]
Moses Pray
I told you, I don't want you ridin' with me no more.
Addie Loggins
You still owe me two hundred dollars.
Addie Loggins
Moze, look!
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Addie Loggins
She really do all that dancin'?
Imogene
Well, if you want to call it dancin'! All she do is wag her hips and shake her ole behind a little.
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Moses Pray
I now owe you one hundred and three dollars and seventy-two cents.
Addie Loggins
Seventy-four.
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Addie Loggins
Frank D. Roosevelt said we're all feelin' a lot better.
Moses Pray
He did, did he?
Addie Loggins
It made me feel good when he said that. Better than I felt in a long time.
Moses Pray
Bet ole Frank sure does wish you was twenty-one.
Addie Loggins
You don't like me, do ya?
Moses Pray
No, I don't like ya!
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Moses Pray
Okay, I want you to remember one thing. I decide on the price. Maybe you don't know French but there's something in this world called "finesse." Twelve dollars. I never sold no bible for twelve dollars. That man was a law officer. He could have had me put in jail.
Addie Loggins
We got it, didn't we!
Moses Pray
I don't care if we got it. Don't you go makin' the decisions. I make the decisions! All you got to do is look like a pretty little girl. You ain't got somethin' like a ribbon in that cigar box, do ya?
Addie Loggins
I got my Mom's kimono in my suitcase. Chinamen with umbrellas.
Moses Pray
That ain't quite what I had in mind.
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Imogene
Mr. Mose, Miss Trixie don't feel so good. She says she gonna stay in bed today. She says she'll see you around supper time.
Moses Pray
She's sick? Sick in bed? I-I better get up there.
Imogene
Oh, she ain't real sick. Ain't nothin' to worry about. She's just havin' lady's time.
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Moses Pray
You hungry? You want a Nehi and a coney island?
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Addie Loggins
[about Trixie Delight]
She always has to go to the bathroom. She must have a bladder the size of a peanut.
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[first lines]
The Minister
Judge me, oh Lord, for I have lost in mine integrity. I have trusted also in the Lord, therefore I shall not slide. Examine me, oh Lord, and prove me. Try my reins and my heart, for Thy loving kindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in Thy truth.
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Moses Pray
Amen, Essie Mae, I just know your ass is still warm.
[Drops flowers into her grave]
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Addie Loggins
You meet my Mama in a barroom?
Moses Pray
Where would you get a question like that?
Addie Loggins
I hear Miss Polly talkin' neighborly and she says one of you is my Pa.
Moses Pray
Well, don't the world have a wild imagination.
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Moses Pray
Let's see, now, we can veer down to Lucas and we'll veer over to Wilson, veer off to Lorraine and Bushton.
Addie Loggins
We can veer off to Hosington.
Moses Pray
We just have to keep on veering, that's all.
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Addie Loggins
Where you from?
Imogene
Nowhere.
Addie Loggins
Well, you gotta be from somewhere.
Imogene
Down by Troy, I guess.
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Addie Loggins
Say, you know that red headed lady who comes down here named Miss Trixie Delight?
Floyd
Yeah.
Addie Loggins
Well, she thinks you're real cute.
Floyd
Oh yeah, says you and who else?
Addie Loggins
No, honest. She says you're better lookin' than Dick Powell.
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Addie Loggins
Maybe you should ask her for a date. That will sure tickle her.
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The Minister
If you're driving your chariot to Missouri, sir, you could deliver this child to her kinfolk.
Moses Pray
Well, I wouldn't exactly call it a chariot, Reverend.
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Trixie Delight
Say, you're not one of these fellas that goes around babblin' are ya, honey?
Floyd
What do you mean?
Trixie Delight
Well, you know, most of the time I don't mind. But it's important to me, right now, not to get talked about.
Floyd
Hey, now, do I look like that kind of a feller?
Trixie Delight
Now, say, you're a wild one, aren't ya. Hold it. Hold it. Now, wait a minute. You're going to tear it! Now, now, just let me slip it off. Hey, there. Well now, ain't you a show dog. Oo! Ooo!
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Moses Pray
I sell the good book, ma'am. Just movin' through the country with the lord's good news.
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Moses Pray
Now, don't think that poor child ain't entitled, 'cause she is. Now, I was thinkin' a couple a thousand dollars will be acceptable.
Mr. Robertson
A couple of thou'? I'll give you two hundred.
Moses Pray
Two hundred dollars?
Mr. Robertson
Two hundred dollars.
Moses Pray
It's a deal.
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