The Crowd (1928)

James Murray: John Sims

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• John : Marriage is not a word, it's a *sentence*!

• Junior : Why don't you never play with me any more? I like to play with you. Doesn't Momma like you? I like you. When I grow up I wanta be just like you.

  John : You still love me? You still believe in me, boy?

  Junior : Sure I do, Pop!

  John : We can do it, boy! We'll show them!

• Mary : Picnic my eye! I'm doing the same things I do every day!

  John : Don't crab, dear. Everything's goin' to be roses... when my ship comes in.

  Mary : Your ship? A worm must be towing it down from the North Pole!

• John : Look at that crowd! The poor boobs... all in the same rut!

• Bert : I've got a pair of wrens dated up for Coney Island. Want to make it a foursome?

  John : Nothin' doin', Bert! I'm studying nights!

  Bert : Aw, come on! These babies have got what ain't in books!

  John : Well, I'll try anything once...

• John : [laughing at a juggling clown]  The poor sap! And I bet his father thought he would be President!

• John : This night-life is my speed, Bert Old Bean! We gotta do it often!

• Mary : You'd try the patience of a Saint!

  John : You're no soothing syrup yourself!

• John : This is the way I work! I'm the old go-getting kid!

• John : I've brought home the bacon, Mary! Five hundred bucks!

• John : [John singing as he sees the El go by]  Wife and I are happy - And everything is swell. It's heavenly inside our flat - But outside it is El!