Bernie Hamilton credited as playing...
Goodbye George
- Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan: I was just thinking of the beauty and charm of life here on West Madison.
- Wart: Yeah, you'll get used to it Judge, when you've been here as long as we have.
- Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan: Some place to bring up a boy. Deadbeats hanging round every corner. Hopheads, begging, borrowing, stealing to buy a few cc's of delirium.
- Fran: Come on, Judge, don't do that.
- Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan: Nick won't have a chance. By the time he's twelve he'll have the soul of toadstool. Somebody has to tell her. Nellie needs help, if Nick's gonna make it.
- Fran: Well, I will, I'll help.
- Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan: Why don't you all? I, I mean, why don't we...
- Flora: What have we got to give a boy? Just our own miseries.
- Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan: Who knows more about miseries, Flora? Who knows more about life than you or Wart or me?
- Wart: Yeah but what kind of a life?
- Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan: The kind of life we don't want Nick to have.
- Goodbye George: Judge, you mean you want us all to, er, kind of adopt Nick?
- Max: You know, he's right.
- Wart: Maybe you got something.
- Nellie Romano: Hey, are you all serious?
- Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan: Who else is there to help you, Nellie?
- Wart: Are you for it, Nellie?
- Nellie Romano: Yes, I am for it.
- Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan: A toast! A toast to the future of Nick Romano!
- Fran: You're nice George.
- Goodbye George: Fran, you're gettin' drunk.
- Fran: Nah! I just feel good. I feel like I could just *love* everybody!
- Goodbye George: Flora Belle, let me tell you somethin', baby sweets. I didn't have no papa. My Mama walked off and left me on somebody's doorstep when I was four.
- Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan: Orphan, illegitimate and black. That's what I call starting at the top.
- Goodbye George: That's where it's at. But, you dig it, Judge. I was up there once, when I was in the ring. I fought the champ. Almost had him!
- Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan: Almost. Just about the saddest word of all.
- Grant Holloway: Who is this Goodbye George?
- Goodbye George: Me! That's me, Your Honor.
- Grant Holloway: You got a name?
- Goodbye George: That's where it's at. Dig it. Goodbye George.
- Grant Holloway: You a prize fighter? I used to be.
- Goodbye George: That's why they call me Goodbye George. Cause I hit 'em one time and - it's goodbye.
- Goodbye George: This gang of guys jumps my Nick. You think I'm just gonna stand up there and pick my nose?