Citations

The Hoodlum

Mrs. Lubeck: Take a breath, Vincent. Go ahead. Smell! You can smell fresh air here. Not like where we used to live by the city dump. Every time the wind changed... my!... the smell! And Papa running around all day yelling, 'Keep the windows closed! Keep the windows... '
Vincent Lubeck: Stop it, Ma! Keep the windows closed? What was the use? The stink came through them anyhow into all the corners of your lungs... your skin! Even if you took a bath every day, the stink would still stink! Our playground, where we picked up a few pieces of junk to get spending money. A rotten stink! Even now we're not too far away from it! But you wait! I've got ideas. I'll get plenty of money! Yeah, dough! That's the only thing that'll ever cover up the stink of the city dump!

Vincent Lubeck: Ma, the Bible gives you 70 years to live. The insurance companies tell you it's 65. The big companies tell you that after 40 years you can't make a buck. Well, I haven't got far to go. When you die, you're a long time dead.
Mrs. Lubeck: And when you are in jail, are you alive?

Mrs. Lubeck: It's too late, Vincent. What can momma do - go to the electric chair for you?

Prison Warden Stevens: The only extenuating circumstance is that Vincent Lubeck hasn't committed murder... yet!

Eileen: You handle the truth carelessly, don't you, Vincent?
Vincent Lubeck: That's what I like about you - class! Never come out and call a man a liar.

Eileen: Harboring a fugitive isn't my idea of companionship. Get out of my bedroom.

[Breckenridge is watering the plant. The police Lieutenant Burdick has arrived]
Lt. Burdick: Mr. Breckenridge?
Breckenridge: Yes.
Lt. Burdick: Police. The funeral that left here a short while ago. I want some information.
Breckenridge: Is there anything wrong?
Lt. Burdick: That's what I'm trying to find out. Was there anything out of the ordinary about that funeral?
Breckenridge: There was. But I hardly see how that concerns the police.
Lt. Burdick: Listen, Mr. Breckenridge, this is not morbid curiosity on my part. There are two dead men out on that street. That funeral procession must have passed a moment before they were killed. Come on quit hedging, I want the details.
Breckenridge: Very well. There was the unusual request that the deceased that he'd be interred at the precise moment of his birth. 1101. There was...
Lt. Burdick: How many people were there?
Breckenridge: Only the family were present. 3.
Lt. Burdick: For 2 cars?
Breckenridge: Oh, no. They used only one. Their own.
[Lt. Burdick is going to report it to the police in the news]

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