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Quotes from Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

14 quotes
Paul Newman
Scotty: Leroy, did you know this is Chance Wayne... the famous Hollywood and Broadway celebrity?
Leroy: Really?
Bud: Sure. All bartenders become movie stars. Right, Chance?
Chance Wayne: Oh, well. What he's trying to say is that I had your job for too long.
- Paul Newman (as Chance Wayne) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Paul Newman
Dr. George Scudder: [He's just observed Chance popping a pill] What is that you just took?
Chance Wayne: [Indifferently] A pill.
Dr. George Scudder: What kind of pill?
Chance Wayne: Oh, Benny. Benzedrine.
Dr. George Scudder: On prescription?
Chance Wayne: Yeah, sort of...
Chance Wayne: [Cynically] A goofball makes the world keep its balance.
- Paul Newman (as Chance Wayne) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Paul Newman
Chance Wayne: [Parting words to Alexandra del Lago] Princess, each of us has his own private hell to go to.
- Paul Newman (as Chance Wayne) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Philip Abbott
Chance Wayne: George, George. You're the only grown man I know that still says "gee" and "golly" and "gosh."
Dr. George Scudder: Well, I'm not as sophisticated as you.
- Philip Abbott (as Dr. George Scudder) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Geraldine Page
Chance Wayne: I had my picture on the cover of Life magazine! Woo-ha!
Chance Wayne: And at the same time I was... employing my other talent, lovemaking.
Alexandra Del Lago: That may be the only talent you were ever truly meant for.
- Geraldine Page (as Alexandra Del Lago) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Paul Newman
Chance Wayne: I like you. You are a nice monster.
- Paul Newman (as Chance Wayne) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Paul Newman
Chance Wayne: It's okay, Princess.
- Paul Newman (as Chance Wayne) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Paul Newman
Chance Wayne: Oh, man. Don't you know only squares drink gin martinis with olives?
- Paul Newman (as Chance Wayne) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Paul Newman
Chance Wayne: Princess, just smoke.
- Paul Newman (as Chance Wayne) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Paul Newman
Chance Wayne: The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.
- Paul Newman (as Chance Wayne) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)