Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Billy Dee Williams: Louis McKay

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• Billie Holiday : [after Louis discovers that Billie shoots up]  Sure I've taken a few shots, but only when I needed it,

  [Louis sighs] 

  Billie Holiday : but i'm not hooked, Louis. I'm not.

  Louis McKay : Only when you needed it. What do you think hooked is? All I had to do is listen to your voice on the telephone and I knew. Who the hell do you think you're talking to? One of those ofay cats you be running around with? I've been on those streets all of my life. I know what that shit is!

  Billie Holiday : It's good, ain't it?

  [Louis then gets up and takes her suitcase and starts packing her stuff] 

  Billie Holiday : Wait, Wait, Baby! Oh, no.

  Louis McKay : We're going home. Now!

  Billie Holiday : [Stopping him]  Wait, hey, baby, wait. See, you don't understand. Now, you don't know how it is when people are looking down at you and laughing at you and think that I'm a loser. And if I go home now, I'll think that I'm one, too. I gotta prove it to them. I gotta prove it to myself.

  Louis McKay : What're you proving with that needle? That you're not woman enough to make it without a crutch? A magic way out when the going gets a little too rough? I want you to make it, too, baby. But not this way. Not this way.

• Louis McKay : [offering Billie a $20 bill]  You want my arm to fall off.

• Louis McKay : Pardon me, lady. I must have got you mixed up with someone who used to reside as Missus, um... what's her name?

  Billie Holiday : If that's what you thought, nigger, why'd you give me them damn flowers? Why didn't you just give me some money?

  Louis McKay : I did.

• Louis McKay : I'm going out for a while. And when I come back, I don't want to find you here.

• Louis McKay : If you go down, baby. I go down, too.

  Billie Holiday : I'm not going down, because there ain't no place down there I wanna be. Be going up, baby.

• Billie Holiday : Oh, baby. Oh, I missed you so much. Oh, you look so good. Oh, baby. How'd you get here?

  Louis McKay : Get your clothes off.

  Billie Holiday : I like your style, but I can't say much for your timing. Why don't we wait till we get home, get a nice hot bath?

  Louis McKay : No.

  Billie Holiday : Whatever you say. My, my, the man is ready. Well, so am I.

• Louis McKay : Come on, take your hat now. We're going home, okay? We're going home.

  Billie Holiday : We're going home... .

  Louis McKay : Yeah, we're going home. All right?

  Billie Holiday : I'm going home, right?

  Louis McKay : Okay, you put your hat on. We're going home.