Guys and Dolls (1955)

Johnny Silver: Benny Southstreet

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Quotes 

• Nathan Detroit : Southstreet, give your testimony.

  Benny Southstreet : I plead the fifth commandment.

• Benny Southstreet : I've always been a bad guy, and a bad gambler. From now on, I would like to be a good guy, and a good gambler. I thank you.

• Harry the Horse : I just acquired five thousand fish.

  Nicely Nicely Johnson : Five thousand? If it can be told, where did you take on this fine bundle of lettuce?

  Harry the Horse : I have nothing to hide. I collected the reward on my father.

  Benny Southstreet : It is an advantage to have a successful father. Nobody ever wanted my old man for as much as five hundred.

• 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.

• Benny Southstreet : [about the cab that Nathan told him to take Adelaide to the Hot Box in]  But who's going to pay for it?

  Miss Adelaide : I am, of course!

• Benny Southstreet : [to Nathan]  I cannot believe a number one businessman like you could let himself fall in love with his own fiancé.

• 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.