Quotes from Clash by Night (1952)
17 quotes
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Uncle Vince:
Nobody wants kids around... they clutter up the house.
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J. Carrol Naish
(as Uncle Vince)
in
Clash by Night
(1952)
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Mae Doyle D'Amato:
Aren't there any more comfortable men in this world? Now they're all little and nervous like sparrows or big and worried like sick bears. Men!
Earl Pfeiffer: Women!
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Robert Ryan
(as Earl Pfeiffer)
in
Clash by Night
(1952)
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Mae Doyle D'Amato:
Home is where you come when you run out of places.
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Barbara Stanwyck
(as Mae Doyle D'Amato)
in
Clash by Night
(1952)
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Mae Doyle D'Amato:
I'm tired of looking after men, I want to be looked after...
Peggy: Is that what you want from a man? Mae Doyle D'Amato: Confidence! I want a man to give me confidence, somebody to fight off the blizzards and the floods, somebody to beat off the world when it tries to swallow you up. Huh, me and my ideas.
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Barbara Stanwyck
(as Mae Doyle D'Amato)
in
Clash by Night
(1952)
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Mae Doyle D'Amato:
Jerry! If you come any closer to me I'll smash your face in with the first thing I can lay my hands on!
Jerry D'Amato: You're no good!
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Paul Douglas
(as Jerry D'Amato)
in
Clash by Night
(1952)
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Mae Doyle D'Amato:
You don't like women, do you?
Earl Pfeiffer: Take any six of 'em - my wife included. Throw 'em up in the air. The one who sticks to the ceiling, I like.
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Robert Ryan
(as Earl Pfeiffer)
in
Clash by Night
(1952)
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Joe Doyle:
Why didn't you come home before?
Mae Doyle D'Amato: Why didn't I go to China? Some things you do, some things you don't.
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Barbara Stanwyck
(as Mae Doyle D'Amato)
in
Clash by Night
(1952)
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Jerry D'Amato:
Earl, he's one of the smartest men I know. He's in the movie business.
Mae Doyle D'Amato: An actor? Jerry D'Amato: No, but I bet Earl could be if he wanted to. He works at the Bijou theatre, in the projection booth. Mae Doyle D'Amato: That's your idea of being in the movie business? Jerry D'Amato: Running movies, what other business would you call it?
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Paul Douglas
(as Jerry D'Amato)
in
Clash by Night
(1952)
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Barbara Stanwyck
(as Mae Doyle D'Amato)
in
Clash by Night
(1952)
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Jerry D'Amato:
I'm real glad you came back home Mae.
Mae Doyle D'Amato: Why? Jerry D'Amato: I like you - you know that. Mae Doyle D'Amato: You don't know anything about me. What kind of an animal am I? Do I have fangs? Do I purr? What jungle am I from? You don't know a thing about me.
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Barbara Stanwyck
(as Mae Doyle D'Amato)
in
Clash by Night
(1952)
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