Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson: Little Joe Jackson

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• Petunia Jackson : Little Joe, you got a funny feeling?

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : I've got a feeling, but it ain't funny!

• Georgia Brown : You're gonna be filthy with money!

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : How filthy?

• Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : [when he discovers he's in trouble with the Devil]  Oh, me! I'm about the most miserabelest person that ever died!

• Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Georgia, Georgia, remember you're a lady now.

  Georgia Brown : I know it, sugar. I'm just trying to impress them with that fact.

• Petunia Jackson : I've gone into the hotel business.

  Rev. Green : That's fine.

  Petunia Jackson : He means he's got a job down at that new hotel downtown.

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Yes, sir. I'm operative in charge of elevator number two.

• Petunia Jackson : That hotel's all air-conditioned.

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : You know, honey, when I get rich in the elevator game, maybe I'll air-condition our residence.

  Petunia Jackson : This one's already air-conditioned with half the roof gone.

• Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Don't whistle at me through a church window, gentlemen. Can't you see I'm busy getting saved?

• The General : I was told to investigate, not to bring you up there.

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : But you won't be taking no chances, sir. I can be a very handy man up there. I can run the elevator going up, tune harps and mind cherubs, or anything.

  Lucifer Jr. : First thing you know, you'll have a bunch of dice-shooting angels on your hands.

• The General : Don't forget, we can read your thoughts up there too.

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Well, that's what I ought to thought.

• Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : How am I gonna reform if I don't remember what a mess I was in when I was dead?

• Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : When I gets recovered, I ain't gonna let you break your back working for me.

  Petunia Jackson : Oh, I don't mind, sugar, long as it's you I'm working for.

• Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Well, I'm gonna be good to you from now on. I'm gonna buy you electric washing machine. You ain't gonna do nobody's scrubbing but your own.

  Petunia Jackson : Sure enough? Little Joe, you just about to kill me with kindness.

• Petunia Jackson : I know all about that sweepstake money and I'm solid collecting my half, cash on the line.

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Well, I don't know if I got that much left, Petunia. No?

  Petunia Jackson : Then you're just in the correct suit to be laid out in.

• Petunia Jackson : Good evening, riffraff! Hello, Jim Henry. Thought I'd just drop round and give your joint the once-over.

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Why, Petunia, is this really you?

  Petunia Jackson : But not the same me you used to break her back busting suds over a tub for you!

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Why, you - you're beautiful, Petunia!

  Petunia Jackson : Oh, save that sugarcoated talk for your girlfriend.

• Georgia Brown : Now, you just be a little more careful what you say to your wife in front of me.

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Georgia, you keep out of this.

  Georgia Brown : I'm speakin' my mind.

  Petunia Jackson : And I ain't heard a sound.

• Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : I'm getting kind of weary. Can I make it?

• Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Of course, I ain't saying I altogether forgot you. You ain't easy to erase from the mind once a man gets to know you good-like.

  Georgia Brown : Why does you want to forget me, sugar?

  Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson : Well, it seems there was a lot of reasons why; but, for the life of me, I can't seem to think of one of them now.