Pickup on South Street (1953)

Thelma Ritter: Moe Williams

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• Moe Williams : Listen, Mister. When I come in here tonight, you seen an old clock runnin' down. I'm tired. I'm through. Happens to everybody sometime. It'll happen to you too, someday. With me it's a little bit of everything. Backaches and headaches. I can't sleep nights. It's so hard to get up in the morning, and get dressed and walk the streets. Climb the stairs. I go right on doin' it! Well, what am I gonna do, knock it? I have to go on makin' a livin'... so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waitin' fer if I gotta do bus'ness with crumbs like you.

• Moe Williams : What's the matter with you? Playing footsie with the Commies!

  Skip McCoy : You waving the flag, too?

  Moe Williams : Listen, I knew you since you was a little kid. You was always a regular kind of crook. I never figured you for a louse.

  Skip McCoy : Stop, you're breaking my heart.

  Moe Williams : Even in our crummy line of business you gotta draw the line somewhere.

• Candy : You've been recommended as the best pickpocket stoolie in the business.

  Moe Williams : What kind of talk is that, calling me a stoolie? I was brought up to report any injustice to the police authority. I call that being a solid citizen.

  Candy : But you get paid for it.

  Moe Williams : You gonna knock it?

• Moe Williams : You got any Happy Money?

  Candy : Happy Money?

  Moe Williams : Yeah, money that's gonna make me happy. What else?

• Moe Williams : Ask a silly question, you get a dopey look.

• Moe Williams : I've got almost enough to buy both the stone and the plot.

  Capt. Dan Tiger : If you lost that kitty, it's Potter's Field.

  Moe Williams : This I do not think is a very funny joke, Captain Tiger!

  Capt. Dan Tiger : I just meant you ought to be careful how you carry your bankroll.

  Moe Williams : Look, Tiger, if I was to be buried in Potter's Field, it would just about kill me.

• Joey : You'd sell anybody for buttons.

  Moe Williams : Yeah, but not to *you*, Mister!

• Moe Williams : I have to go on making a living so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waiting for if I've gotta do business with crumbs like you.

• Moe Williams : Oh, you're the muffin.