Little Miss Marker Quotes

Bangles Carson: [about Marky] Well, you can't leave her here.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Afraid of the cops?

Bangles Carson: No, I'm afraid of the kid. I don't want her here. I'm not going sappy over her! I won't, see!

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You're already sappy over her.

Bangles Carson: But you're not?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No, she's just something I can't get rid of, because she's tangled up in a race deal.

Bangles Carson: She wasn't tangled up in a deal the first night you got her. You could've unloaded her then!

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You didn't stage no riot when she busted up your song in a night club!

Bangles Carson: You start reading about King Arthur to her!

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Yeah, and you take her out and buy her a lot of new clothes!

Bangles Carson: And you sit still for the bite without even being chloroformed!

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: All right, I did pay! Her clothes were falling off her.

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Bangles Carson: Looking for something?

Detective Reardon: Yeah. A kid.

Bangles Carson: Another kid get lost?

Detective Reardon: No, it's the same kid. One of those orphan societies is on our necks. You know, afraid she might have fallen into the hands of the wrong people. Sorrowful, you mind if I take a run up to that new apartment of yours?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: What for?

Detective Reardon: You know, just for the record.

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Bangles Carson: Looking for something?

Detective Reardon: Yeah. A kid.

Bangles Carson: Another kid get lost?

Detective Reardon: No, it's the same kid. One of those orphan societies is on our necks. You know, afraid she might have fallen into the hands of the wrong people. Sorrowful, you mind if I take a run up to that new apartment of yours?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: What for?

Detective Reardon: You know, just for the record.

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Bangles Carson: Steve phoned four times last night between one and five this morning.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: When Steve finds out you stayed the night at my place -

Bangles Carson: Oh, I phoned him a little while ago. I told him I had the kid here, and shut off the phone.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Oh, you handed him a line?

Bangles Carson: Yeah. I was afraid he'd put the slug on you.

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Bangles Carson: Steve phoned four times last night between one and five this morning.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: When Steve finds out you stayed the night at my place -

Bangles Carson: Oh, I phoned him a little while ago. I told him I had the kid here, and shut off the phone.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Oh, you handed him a line?

Bangles Carson: Yeah. I was afraid he'd put the slug on you.

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Bangles Carson: We jipped that kid, and now she's just a mug like us.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: What's wrong with us?

Bangles Carson: When we first met her, she was a sweet kid. Nice people would've been glad to have her. Now she hasn't got a chance.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Because she's a little tough now?

Bangles Carson: She's plenty tough now. They want kids that have been brought up right.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Who does?

Bangles Carson: Nice people. You know, young married couples with no kids of their own.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Why don't you get nice and adopt her?

Bangles Carson: Because I'm not a young married couple. You'd love to see her get into a good home, wouldn't you? Well, she won't, not unless we can change her back into the kid she was.

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Bangles Carson: You guys ought to be ashamed of yourselves, tossing that kid around like she was a rubber ball.

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Bangles Carson: You guys ought to be ashamed of yourselves, tossing that kid around like she was a rubber ball.

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Detective Reardon: Regret told me I'd find you here. This is one of your tickets, ain't it?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Yeah.

Detective Reardon: We found it in the pocket of a guy who killed himself. He had a kid. You know anything about it?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Uh, no.

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Detective Reardon: Regret told me I'd find you here. This is one of your tickets, ain't it?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Yeah.

Detective Reardon: We found it in the pocket of a guy who killed himself. He had a kid. You know anything about it?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Uh, no.

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Marky's Father: I want to bet twenty dollars on Dream Prince to win.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Not with an IOU.

Marky's Father: But I've already lost over five hundred dollars with you.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I wouldn't take an IOU from my best friend. If I had a best friend.

Marky's Father: Now, Jones, be reasonable. I don't have the twenty on me, but I can get it.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Then get it.

Marky's Father: But I might not be back in time for the race.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: That's your tough luck. No markers!

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Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Can you write a letter to God like you do to Santa Claus?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No, that's where praying comes in.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Bad girls like me can't pray.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Aw, you ain't a bad girl.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Then show me how to pray. I want to ask God for something.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You would. You lay down and go to sleep.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Regret knows everything. I'll ask Regret to show me how to pray.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Don't you go asking that mug Regret about anything. I'll show you how to pray.

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Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Trying to hand me mush!

Bangles Carson: Don't you like it?

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: No!

Bangles Carson: Say, "No, thank you." Say it like this: "No, thank you, Bangles. I don't care for any."

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: What for?

Bangles Carson: Well, you used to say "thank you" and "no, thank you."

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I used to be a sissy.

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Regret: Ah, kid, don't cry. Sorrowful didn't mean anything.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: He doesn't like me.

Regret: He don't even like himself.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I want my daddy!

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Regret: Ah, kid, don't cry. Sorrowful didn't mean anything.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: He doesn't like me.

Regret: He don't even like himself.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I want my daddy!

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Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I've been crazy about you for a long time.

Bangles Carson: Oh, everything is different. Maybe that's part of - of going sappy.

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Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Why'd you bring him here?

Bangles Carson: You're my watchman.

Bangles Carson: You need a watchman. Big Steve is hardly out of town, and you step out with a good-time Charlie.

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Bangles Carson: [reading the newspaper] Listen to this. Bets twenty dollars on losing horse, then takes life.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: It's the kid's father.

Big Steve Halloway: Bumped himself off, did he?

Bangles Carson: It tells about the kid and everything.

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Bangles Carson: [about Marky] Well, you can't leave her here.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Afraid of the cops?

Bangles Carson: No, I'm afraid of the kid. I don't want her here. I'm not going sappy over her! I won't, see!

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You're already sappy over her.

Bangles Carson: But you're not?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No, she's just something I can't get rid of, because she's tangled up in a race deal.

Bangles Carson: She wasn't tangled up in a deal the first night you got her. You could've unloaded her then!

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You didn't stage no riot when she busted up your song in a night club!

Bangles Carson: You start reading about King Arthur to her!

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Yeah, and you take her out and buy her a lot of new clothes!

Bangles Carson: And you sit still for the bite without even being chloroformed!

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: All right, I did pay! Her clothes were falling off her.

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Bangles Carson: [reading the newspaper] Listen to this. "Bets twenty dollars on losing horse, then takes life."

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: It's the kid's father.

Big Steve Halloway: Bumped himself off, did he?

Bangles Carson: It tells about the kid and everything.

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Bangles Carson: Hiya, Tightwad.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Hello, Golddigger.

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Bangles Carson: Hiya, Tightwad.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Hello, Golddigger.

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Bangles Carson: We jipped that kid, and now she's just a mug like us.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: What's wrong with us?

Bangles Carson: When we first met her, she was a sweet kid. Nice people would've been glad to have her. Now she hasn't got a chance.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Because she's a little tough now?

Bangles Carson: She's plenty tough now. They want kids that have been brought up right.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Who does?

Bangles Carson: Nice people. You know, young married couples with no kids of their own.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Why don't you get nice and adopt her?

Bangles Carson: Because I'm not a young married couple. You'd love to see her get into a good home, wouldn't you? Well, she won't, not unless we can change her back into the kid she was.

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Big Steve Halloway: Now get this, honey, no playing around. You keep your eye on her, Sorrowful.

Bangles Carson: Notice how much he trusts me. Well, Tightwad, you're my watchman.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You're going to need watching, Golddigger.

Bangles Carson: If you want to be kept busy, I can arrange it.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I'm already busy playing nursemaid to one doll.

Bangles Carson: I hear you like it so well you bought a new apartment for the kid.

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Big Steve Halloway: Now get this, honey, no playing around. You keep your eye on her, Sorrowful.

Bangles Carson: Notice how much he trusts me. Well, Tightwad, you're my watchman.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You're going to need watching, Golddigger.

Bangles Carson: If you want to be kept busy, I can arrange it.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I'm already busy playing nursemaid to one doll.

Bangles Carson: I hear you like it so well you bought a new apartment for the kid.

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Marky's Father: I want to bet twenty dollars on Dream Prince to win.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Not with an IOU.

Marky's Father: But I've already lost over five hundred dollars with you.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I wouldn't take an IOU from my best friend. If I had a best friend.

Marky's Father: Now, Jones, be reasonable. I don't have the twenty on me, but I can get it.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Then get it.

Marky's Father: But I might not be back in time for the race.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: That's your tough luck. No markers!

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Marky's Father: Look, this is my little girl. I'll leave her here while I go for the money.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I ain't taking no dolls for security.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Look, Daddy, he's running away. Is he afraid?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Take her down off there. You get down off there.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: You're afraid of my daddy. Or you're afraid of me. You're afraid of something.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: All right, take his marker. A little doll like this is worth twenty bucks any way you look at it.

Regret: Yeah, she ought to melt down for that much.

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Marky's Father: Look, this is my little girl. I'll leave her here while I go for the money.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I ain't taking no dolls for security.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Look, Daddy, he's running away. Is he afraid?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Take her down off there. You get down off there.

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: You're afraid of my daddy. Or you're afraid of me. You're afraid of something.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: All right, take his marker. A little doll like this is worth twenty bucks any way you look at it.

Regret: Yeah, she ought to melt down for that much.

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Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Dizzy, when that guy comes back for the little doll, don't you turn her over to him until you get that twenty bucks.

Dizzy Memphis: But she's gone, boss.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: So he sneaked her out, eh? Serves me right. Every time I get big-hearted -

Regret: When was the other time?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Why didn't you watch her?

Regret: What am I, a nursemaid? What'd you take her as a marker for, anyway?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I don't know.

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Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Dizzy, when that guy comes back for the little doll, don't you turn her over to him until you get that twenty bucks.

Dizzy Memphis: But she's gone, boss.

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: So he sneaked her out, eh? Serves me right. Every time I get big-hearted -

Regret: When was the other time?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Why didn't you watch her?

Regret: What am I, a nursemaid? What'd you take her as a marker for, anyway?

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I don't know.

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