True Confession (1937)

Lynne Overman: Bartender

Quotes 

• Charles "Charley" Jasper : You bore me. Fill my glass.

  George : Yeah, where's your money?

  Charles "Charley" Jasper : What is money? Pathetic scraps of metal, paper crawling with germs. Fill my glass.

  George : Yeah, as soon as you toss a few germs my way.

• Charles "Charley" Jasper : Afraid, George? Afraid of a penny's worth of rubber? You know, this is life, George. Uh, so, you try to live by blowing hot air into it.

  [blows up a balloon] 

  Charles "Charley" Jasper : Year after year. Year after year, un-until finally you're like this, with a fat, round body, and the skin tight all over you. You - this is life, George. And then what happens? Something happens. Anything happens! And - and this is what life does, George. Look, look. Look at what life does.

  [squeezes the air out of the baloon] 

  Charles "Charley" Jasper : Sad, isn't it?

  George : You're quite a fellow, ain't you, Charley? Quite a philosophizer. Goin' to court today?

  Charles "Charley" Jasper : I go to court every day. There's life for you, life with its back to the wall. You see the balloons there, all right, the ones that were fat and round and tight. Eh, but they're collapsed now. Just shrunken, shriveled shells, fit only for the laboratory of a great criminologist. A great criminologist. A great criminologist!