The Breaking Point (1950)

Patricia Neal: Leona Charles

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• Harry Morgan : You know, my wife dyed her hair.

  Leona Charles : Coincidentally I've been thinking of letting mine grow out. Speaking of coincidences, I live in Number Seven. My friends just kick the door open.

• Harry Morgan : [to Leona as she reaches into his shirt pocket for a cigarette]  Yuh know, one of these days you're gonna get your arm broke reachin' for something that don't belong to yuh.

  Leona Charles : It's all in a good cause.

• Harry Morgan : Don't you like cock fights?

  Leona Charles : [dismissively]  All that trouble for an egg.

• Harry Morgan : Where can I find Harrigan?

  Leona Charles : I don't know.

  Harry Morgan : Where did you meet him?

  Leona Charles : Sunday school.

• Leona Charles : [after surviving a barrage of bullets on Harry's boat]  I guess I should have swam back to port - or is it 'swum?'

• Leona Charles : [to Hatty and Lucy]  I guess it's late enough for me to say it's late.

• Leona Charles : Are you in trouble?

  Harry Morgan : Up to my eyes I'm in trouble.

  Leona Charles : Whatever it is - let it go.

  Harry Morgan : I ain't got no choice. All I got left to peddle is guts. I'm not sure I got any. I have to find out.

• Leona Charles : Everyone's got moles.

• Harry Morgan : You're a nice girl, now be nice.

  Leona Charles : Yeah, nice, no future in it.

• Leona Charles : I hate mornings. The worst part of the day.