Sweet Charity (1969)
Paula Kelly: Helene
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Quotes
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Helene : There ain't no use flappin' your wings, 'cause we are stuck in the flypaper of life!
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Helene : Yeah, well, you keep on smokin' them funny little cigarettes, you're bound to do a little flyin'.
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Nickie : [singing] All these jokers, how I hate them, With their groping
Helene : Grabbing
Nickie : Clutching
Helene : Clinching
Nickie : Strangling
Helene : Handling
Nickie : Fumbling
Helene : Pinching
Nickie , Helene : Phooey! There's gotta be some life cleaner than this, There's gotta be some good reason to live, And when I find me some kind of life I can live, I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna get out, I'm gonna get up, get out, and live it!
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Helene : Hey, hey. Me too! Me too!
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Helene : I'm gonna get outta here and I'm gonna go right to the top. I am gonna be a hat-check girl, at one of them East Side high-class restaurants. You know, a tray full of cigarettes costin' sixty cents a pack, and "keep the change"? And all those hats comin' in: derbies, homburgs, ooh, and that cute little checkered number, with the skinny brim and the feather!
[singing]
Helene : Check your hat, sir, Check your coat, sir, Check your vest, sir, Check your pants...
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Charity Hope Valentine : I already told him.
Nickie : You told him?
Charity Hope Valentine : Yup.
Helene : You mean you *really* told him?
Charity Hope Valentine : Yes, I told him! I told him!
Nickie : When?
Charity Hope Valentine : Tomorrow, that's when I told him.
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Helene : Have you told him you're in the rent-a-body business?
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Charity Hope Valentine : Boy, oh boy, am I sick and tired of that musical snake pit down there.
Helene : Well, what's so bad about it? I mean, you dance a little, talk a little, roll your eyes a little, swivel your hips a little.
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Helene : That much truth ain't good for nobody.
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Nickie : How are things going with the goofball?
Charity Hope Valentine : Who?
Nickie : You know, the hand kisser.
Charity Hope Valentine : Him? Who needs him? I don't need him. I don't need anybody, and, if I needed anybody, it sure wouldn't be him.
Helene : She's nuts about him.
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Helene : We promise we won't say nothin' dirty.