Circus of the Stars
SPECIAL #10
Sunday 8 December 1985 on CBS

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Quotes from the movie Tough Guys


Harry Doyle: And I ain't goin' to your funeral!
Archie Long: You ain't invited!

[Harry Doyle has been summoned by his parole officer]
Richie Evans: I got a call from the rest home today. She said that you were being a disruptive influence during lunch. That you refused to eat your spinach soufflé, and that you caused a riot. And that last night you made love to a woman.
Harry Doyle: Do you make love to women, Richie?
Richie Evans: Well, yes. Of course I do.
Harry Doyle: Then how come when you do it, you're a stud and when I do it I'm a disruptive influence to society.
Richie Evans: Because I'm only 28 and you're 72.


Harry Doyle: Well, what do you want to do now, Archie? Rob another empty armored truck? Maybe start a collection?
Archie Long: No, we've got to do something big. Something they woun't laugh at.
Harry Doyle: Like what?
Archie Long: We could take down the flier!
Harry Doyle: The Gold Coast Flier? That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard!
Archie Long: That's what you said about the armored truck.
Harry Doyle: No, I said the armored truck was dumb. This is stupid.
Harry Doyle: There's nothing to steal on the Gold Coast Flier.
Archie Long: So? We'll steal the whole Goddamn train and ride it to Mexico.
Harry Doyle: What for?
Archie Long: To prove we can do it! To show everyone that we will not just fade away, but prove that we can still be tough and be respected for that.
Harry Doyle: Archie, the Gold Coast Flier is no armored truck. It's a super-fast train going at 100 miles per hour.
Archie Long: That didn't stop us the last time.
Harry Doyle: The last time we got caught, remember? We were put away for 30 years!
Archie Long: Now we're 30 years smarter. We won't make the same mistakes.
Harry Doyle: That's right. Because we ain't gonna do it. (edit) Quotes from the movie From Here to Eternity


Karen Holmes: I never knew it could be like this! Nobody ever kissed me the way you do.
Sergeant Milton Warden: Nobody?
Karen Holmes: No, nobody.
Sergeant Milton Warden: Not even one? Out of all the men you've been kissed by?
Karen Holmes: [giggling] Now that'd take some figuring. How many men do you think there've been?
Sergeant Milton Warden: I wouldn't know.Can't you give me a rough estimate?
Karen Holmes: Not without an adding machine. Do you have the adding machine with you?
Sergeant Milton Warden: I forgot to bring it. (edit) In the movie The Scalphunters (1968) Burt's role as a fur trader along with Ossie Davis, the ex-slave, was a way for him to advance Civil Rights. (edit) Burt attempted to draw attention to the Native American Cause in the movie Apache (1954). (edit) Upon the release of the movie Elmer Gantry this disclaimer was included:


We believe that certain aspects of Revivalism can bear examination -- that the conduct of some revivalists makes a mockery of the traditional beliefs and practices of organized Christianity. We believe that everyone has a right to worship according to his conscious but Freedom of Religion is not a license to abuse the faith of the people. However, due to the highly controversial nature of this film, we strongly urge you to prevent impressionable children from seeing it! (edit)

Burt: (confronting the new director of the movie Rocket Gibraltar) Why the f--k do you need a g-d closeup? I'm sick to death of that crap. You need the ambience, you need the feeling of the room. (edit) Burt: (on his relationship with Kirk Douglas) I said, 'We're lovers,' and he laughed and I laughed - but it worked. It typifies the love-hate relationship we had for 40 years. Whether Kirk and I are arguing or challenging each other, we are with each other, we understand. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we love each other. (edit) Burt: (on his looks) I had the luck of having an obedient body. (edit) Burt: (summing up his career on a 1991 Donahue TV interview) I enjoy acting when I get into it. I grumble and grouse about it. It's not good enough, how are they going to make this picture, I think the writer is terrible, the director doesn't know what he's doing, the other actors are ordinary, the girl isn't beautiful enough. I go through all of this nonsense and then I get in and I love it. I'm a pain in the neck, I try to direct the picture, I try to tell the other actors how to act, all that. People hate me, and when it's all over, they wind up loving me. I don't know why. (edit) Burt: (comment regarding his marriage to his secretary in 1990) Some people might think I'm too old to get married, but age has nothing to do with it. I feel like a kid again -- thanks to Susan! (edit)

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