Paris Blues (1961)
Paul Newman: Ram Bowen
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Quotes
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Ram Bowen : You just picked the wrong guy for what you wanted.
Lillian Corning : Yeah?
Ram Bowen : Yeah. I'm not on the market.
Lillian Corning : I wasn't shopping.
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Ram Bowen : You just do anything I say, don't you?
Lillian Corning : Well, I want to stay.
Ram Bowen : You're a nut. Well, I ain't gettin' involved with no nut!
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Lillian Corning : You know something? Everybody is always waiting for everybody else to take a chance, because they're so afraid. Me, I'm more afraid of not taking a chance than taking it and getting
[thumbs down]
Ram Bowen : Well, you can get kicked in the teeth that way.
Lillian Corning : My brother's a dentist.
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Connie Lampson : Is your girl friend as pretty as you are?
Ram Bowen : Yes. She's a white girl.
Connie Lampson : She might be hard to find. All these white girls look alike.
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Ram Bowen : If you don't like it, why don't you say so?
Eddie Cook : I said I liked it.
Ram Bowen : Yeah, I heard the way you said it.
Eddie Cook : What do you want me to say? It's great? All right, you're Gershwin, you're Ravel and Debussy.
Ram Bowen : What's wrong with that?
Eddie Cook : Look, you're Ram Bowen. You write a piece of music, I listen to it, and that's what it says. Ram Bowen, all by itself. Now, what more than that do you want?
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Wild Man Moore : Let me look at you. You're looking great, boy, real great. Younger than me. This town agrees with you. What is it, the chicks or the wine?
Ram Bowen : Oh, it's both, man.
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Eddie Cook : That sure is a cute little devil you tried to pick up in the station today, big daddy.
Ram Bowen : Tried? Looks like I have. Come on, man, let's play. Ah, "Mood Indigo."
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Ram Bowen : Kid, you don't want me for what you want. Now, in the States, when you got nothing to do, maybe. But in Paris, I'd just be a waste of a good vacation. There are companies that take care of tourists. You know, I'm not the Travelers Aid.
Lillian Corning : Well, I'm not looking for any help, so you don't have to worry about me.
Ram Bowen : I'll tell you the truth, honey. I worry about me, not you.
Lillian Corning : Honestly, you're in no danger from me.
Ram Bowen : That phrase does not exist coming from a female, especially a female on a two-week vacation. It's like a job I had when I was a kid in camp. Boy, the dames just came up like sharks.
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Ram Bowen : What do you do with yourself? Back home, I mean.
Lillian Corning : Small town, small job, small life.
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Lillian Corning : I can always eat. You wouldn't know it, but I eat like a horse.
Ram Bowen : I'd know it.
Lillian Corning : It shows?
Ram Bowen : Not in public.
Lillian Corning : Not in private, either.
Ram Bowen : It's all right. I like a girl with a little, eh...
Lillian Corning : A little what?
[laughs]
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Marie Séoul : For you, lunch and dinner with the same woman, that's unusual. How long is she here for?
Ram Bowen : I don't know. Couple of days. I don't dig this. What're you trying to do, tie me up?
Marie Séoul : I'm trying to keep you untied.
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Ram Bowen : You like this all the time?
Lillian Corning : Like what?
Ram Bowen : I don't know. In my league, the guy usually makes the pitch. You not only pitch, you pick up the bat and hit for one. You come on like this with all the guys?
Lillian Corning : No. Only with the special ones.
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Lillian Corning : What's Paris Blues?
Ram Bowen : Hey, you'd better get dressed.
Lillian Corning : Do you write music, too?
Ram Bowen : Honey, I live music. Morning, noon, the whole night. Everything else is just icing on the cake. You dig?
Lillian Corning : I dig.
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Ram Bowen : If you keep on this way...
Michel 'Gypsy' Devigne : It's my way. I'm lucky. If I die, I'll be buried by friends.
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Ram Bowen : Look, you like him, play it cool. You dig each other? Let it go at that.
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Lillian Corning : There's not much time.
Ram Bowen : There's time enough.
Lillian Corning : Friday is so close.
Ram Bowen : We got time for a cup of coffee?
Lillian Corning : It's just that all these mornings I've watched you sleeping and I've cleaned the apartment and I've made coffee, and I haven't done that for a man in a long time.
Ram Bowen : What do you want to do, wrap me up and take me home? How are you gonna declare me at Customs? A souvenir of Paris?
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Ram Bowen : This little chick and me, we're gonna make it together big.
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Ram Bowen : I got no time for what you want.
Lillian Corning : I want you. And I think you want me.
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Ram Bowen : Don't take it, Michel.
Michel 'Gypsy' Devigne : Why? I'm taking a little fix. What's so bad?
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Ram Bowen : Come on, you cats! Let's swing a little bit! Come on! Come on!
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Ram Bowen : Oh, what's the matter, kid? Somebody forget it was your birthday or something?
