Sweet Charity (1969)

Paula Kelly: Helene

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Quotes 

• Helene : There ain't no use flappin' your wings, 'cause we are stuck in the flypaper of life!

• Nickie , Helene : [singing]  The minute you walked in the joint, I could see you were a man of distinction

  Nickie , Helene , Fandango Taxi Girls : A real big spender, Good Iookin', So refined...

  Nickie , Helene : Say, wouldn't you like to know what's goin' on in my mind?

• Nickie : [to Charity]  You know what your big problem is? You run your heart like a hotel. You got guys checkin' in and out all the time.

  Helene : And you always get stuck with the bill.

• Helene : Yeah, well, you keep on smokin' them funny little cigarettes, you're bound to do a little flyin'.

• 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!

• Helene : Hey, hey. Me too! Me too!

• 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...

• 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.

• Helene : Have you told him you're in the rent-a-body business?

• Nickie : If a guy kisses your hand, would you classify that as a pass?

  Helene : Depends.

  Nickie : On what?

  Helene : On where your hand is when he kisses it.

• 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.

• Helene : That much truth ain't good for nobody.

• 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.

• Helene : We promise we won't say nothin' dirty.