Atlantic City (1980)
Burt Lancaster: Lou
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Quotes
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Lou : You should have seen the Atlantic Ocean back then.
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Lou : A room. For me and my mother.
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Lou : Don't touch the suit.
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Lou : Yes, it used to be beautiful - what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
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Lou : I'm a lover!
Grace Pinza : Numbnuts!
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Lou : I made love to this woman today.
Sally : Daddy, please!
Lou : I held her in my arms. I made her happy.
Bus Driver : Let's not be naughty.
Sally : [to Lou] It's gonna be okay.
[to Bus Driver]
Sally : That's alright. It's alright.
[to Lou]
Sally : It's gonna be alright. We'll take good care of you.
Lou : I'm dangerous! People come to me from Las Vegas! I know Bugsy Siegel! I was his cellmate!
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Lou : That's enough!
Grace Pinza : Nothing's enough.
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Grace Pinza : Lou, you get back here. You've got to push the blood back in my feet.
Lou : I'll be right back.
Grace Pinza : Lou, come back!
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Grace Pinza : If you leave me alone with her, I'm gonna kill you Lou.
Lou : Grace, will you listen for just once. This is not medicine.
[exits]
Grace Pinza : I'm still a very important woman in this town. I'm Cookie Pinza's widow! He used to deliver coffee for Cookie. He's my servant.
Chrissie : Do you know that your whole body ends at the bottom of your feet? You think I am just poking your feet. Well, when I touch this spot here...
Grace Pinza : Lou.
Chrissie : This is where your spine is.
Grace Pinza : Lou!
Chrissie : When I touch this spot here, this is where your tummy is.
Grace Pinza : *Lou!*
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Lou : It's all shit now. It's a shame you never saw Atlantic City when it had floy floy. Remember the song, "Flatfoot Floogie with the Floy Floy"?
Dave : No.
Lou : Hep cat and zoot suit. That was the floogie part.
Dave : Yeah?
Lou : The floy floy. That was something special. Atlantic City had floy floy coming out of its ears in those days. Now it's all so goddamn legal. Howard Johnson running a casino. Tutti-frutti ice cream with craps don't mix.
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Lou : You like Miami?
Sally : I'm thinking of going to Monaco.
Lou : Oh, Monaco! That's the place with that Kelly girl from Philadelphia. She's the queen of, huh?
Sally : Yeah, they have a casino there, very elegant. No women dealers yet, but I'm hoping. Only now I'm learning about music and I'm gonna start reading books. You know, developing some style. Learning languages; because, I really want to travel.
Lou : You - thinking of leaving Atlantic City?
Sally : Not for a couple of years. I've got to develop my blackjack. I'm gonna deal my way to Europe, to Monte Carlo.
Lou : A regular Princess Grace!
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Sally : What do you do when you watch me?
Lou : I look at you. You take off your blouse, then you run the water. Then you take a bottle of gold perfume and put it on the sink. Then you slice the lemons. You open a box of blue soap. You run your hands under the water to feel the temperature. Then you take the soap in your hands and...
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Bus Driver : Your daughter will care for you.
Lou : I got no daughter.
Bus Driver : Let's not be naughty.
Sally : Come on, Pops.