San Francisco Movie Quotes
Blackie Norton
[after Mary finishes singing for her informal impromptu audition for Blackie]
Well you got a pretty fair set-a pipes kid. Whaddya say to $75 a week?
[she faints]
Blackie Norton
Well I guess she fainted.
Mat
Yeah. Give me 75 bucks a week and I'll drop dead.
[scene fades out]
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Mary Blake
I'm going to stay.
Father Mullin
That's right. You're in probably the wickedest, most corrupt city, most Godless city in America. Sometimes it frightens me. I wonder what the end's going to be. But nothing can harm you if you don't allow it to because nothing in the world, no one in the world, is all bad.
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Jack Burley
[referring to Mary Blake]
Well, there's no law against an opera singer being slender, young and beautiful.
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Blackie Norton
That process server is the meanest man west of the Rocky Mountains. He'd push his mother off a ferry boat for half a dollar. Yeah, he'd turn the air off in a baby's incubator just to watch the little sucker squirm.
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Mat
[to a bartender]
"Everyone to his own taste," the old lady said as she kissed the cow. Ain't that a...
[not getting a reaction]
Mat
What's the matter? No sense of humor?
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Waiter at Chicken's Ball
[referring to the earthquake]
Well, we certainly don't do things halfway in San Francisco.
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Blackie Norton
Well sister, what's your racket?
Mary Blake
I'm a singer!
Blackie Norton
Let's see your legs!
Mary Blake
I said, I'm a singer!
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[pointing at necklace]
Blackie Norton
Hey. I thought I told you not to wear that thing.
Trixie
Ah gee, honey, I think it's nice.
Blackie Norton
Yeah? Well I think it makes you look cheap!
[Rips it off of her]
Blackie Norton
Now don't wear it anymore. Blackie doesn't like it.
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Jack Burley
One never knows where one's gonna find talent.
Blackie Norton
No, no, one never does, does one?
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Mary Blake
Hello, Della. I'm glad to see you again.
Della Bailey
You won't be for long. I just dropped over to tell you what I think of you. You know, I haven't seen this woman since she walked out on the best man in San Francisco to marry the town's number one rodent.
Jack Burley
I think you better go, Della.
Della Bailey
Oh, no. I've got a few things I want to tell you, too. Now, in case you folks don't follow me, I'll tell you that this mouse here has just had a padlock put on The Paradise and thrown all of Blackie Norton's performers in jail. That's what Blackie got for picking this phony up out of the gutter and giving her a chance.
Jack Burley
Come on, folks.
Della Bailey
Hold still. Don't think I want to breathe the air near you any longer than I have to. You ought to make that mouse awfully happy. Here's a five spot, brother. I'm buying back me introduction to you.
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Blackie Norton
[congratulating Mary after her opera performance]
Say, I never caught this opera racquet up-ta now. How long's that been goin' on?
Mary Blake
Oh-ho, only about a hundred and fifty years.
Blackie Norton
No foolin'?
Mary Blake
Mmhmm.
Blackie Norton
Huh, well it's alright!
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Jack Burley
Did you ever hear of Puccini, Norton?
Blackie Norton
Yeah. Didn't he run a joint down on Dupont Street?
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Blackie Norton
[referring to her skittishness at his romantic advances]
How does it feel to feel like a woman and be afraid of of it?
Mary Blake
Oh Blackie, listen...
Blackie Norton
If you're going to preach Mary, please sing. That's what I believe in: your voice, the way you move, the way you stand on those pretty little feet of yours - that's what I believe in.
Mary Blake
Don't you believe in anything more than that?
Blackie Norton
What more is there?
Mary Blake
[sweetly]
God?
Blackie Norton
God? Huh huh, hey isn't he supposed to be taking care of the suckers coming out of the missions looking for something to eat and a place to sleep? I've seen 'em down on their knees you should stand up and fight for. I don't see God coming down and giving the suckers a shortcut. That's not what I want. I want to push over the mugs that stand in my way before they push me over. What I believe in's not up in the air, it's in here
[points to his head]
Blackie Norton
and in here
[points to his heart]
Blackie Norton
. But maybe that's not right. Maybe it's not right to feel alive, like you and I feel this minute.
[she turns away toward the door as he holds her gently from behind]
Blackie Norton
But I think it's right. You know Mary, I want to get a kick outta things I can see - like lights on the harbor, or a good fight, or a woman worth looking at. Did you ever taste the fog in your mouth like it was salt, or take hold of someone and feel their blood rushing up like a river? What more does a man need, or a woman either? You know I never tried to kid you Mary
[she turns back toward him]
Blackie Norton
- you take me as I am or you don't take me. Tim doesn't try to change me because he knows he can't, and you can't either... nothing can. You know what I've been waiting for? I've been waiting to hear you say that I'm alright with you the way I am. Maybe you're ready to say it now. Are ya?
Mary Blake
[softly and somewhat apprehensively]
I don't know.
[smiles and kisses her]
Blackie Norton
Oh it's gonna be swell baby. I'll make ya queen of the coast. You'll ride through town on your own carriage and everybody'll know who you are. I'll plaster your name and face clear to the Golden Gate. Oh, you and I together Mary are gonna find out that we don't need anything else but us.
[kisses her again]
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opening title card
San Francisco - guardian of the Golden Gate - stands today a queen among sea-ports - industrious, mature, respectable. But perhaps she dreams of the queen and city she was - - splendid and sensuous, vulgar and magnificent - that perished suddenly with a cry still heard in the hearts of those who knew her, at exactly / Five-thirteen a.m. / April 18, 1906
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Blackie Norton
I want to thank God. What do I have to say?
Father Mullin
Just say what's on your heart.
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