Donald Woods credited as playing...
Hitchhiker
- Nick Catapoli: Shame on you for bein' such a fool.
- Hitchhiker: You're wrong, Nick. You only believe what you see. But what does that prove? Nobody sees the stars in the daytime - that's no sign they aren't there. Everybody's been rubbin' you the wrong way, that's all. Say, I've been running up against all kinds - bad ones, and good ones. And the good ones make a man forget all the others.
- Nick Catapoli: Is no Merry Christmas for me. I may be only fella in the whole world who don't like it. I hate Christmas.
- Hitchhiker: What's the matter with it?
- Nick Catapoli: What's the matter with it. All year, everybody is stingy, is mean, squeeze the money - all of a sudden, it come Christmas; everybody smiles, got a false face. Not Nick - I'm no phony. Why everybody gotta change, just because it Christmas, huh?
- Hitchhiker: Because we can't get away from it. Because the true meaning of Christmas is peace, and brotherhood, and love. Seems to me that's a remedy for all the world's troubles.
- Nick Catapoli: [giving him a coat] You gonna be cold - you better put this on.
- Hitchhiker: [stunned] But it's yours!
- Nick Catapoli: Is old; he never fit me too good - I gonna throw him away anyhow.
- [last lines]
- Nick Catapoli: [reaching to shake hands] ... Merry Christmas.
- Hitchhiker: Merry Christmas, Nick.
- [he leaves, turning at the door to smile; Nick watches him go, then looks at the nativity scene in his calendar as he hears the visiting choir sing "Silent Night" from one of the cabins; he looks out the window at the cowboys visiting the newborn baby in his shed, as a tear rolls down his face]
- Hitchhiker: I thought maybe I might step inside and warm up a bit. Maybe you could spare a hot cup of coffee?
- Nick Catapoli: Is no flop joint. I don't have no business for the free lunch.
- Hitchhiker: Oh. Well, I thought tonight, everybody'd want to show a little goodwill.
- Nick Catapoli: Goodwill? What are you talkin', goodwill? Is no such thing. You see that sign? It cost me plenty money - even second-hand cash. I can't buy 'em with goodwill; I can't buy nothin' with goodwill. See?
- Hitchhiker: OK.