Bruce Bennett credited as playing...
San Thomas
- San Thomas: I ran down like a clock. It was just as though I'd been wound up too tight and the spring broke.
- [last lines]
- San Thomas: Remember what you once told me when I was low: all of us are standing in the mud, well...
- Petey Brown: Some of us are looking at the stars.
- San Thomas: Here's lookin' at ya, baby.
- San Thomas: Isn't life difficult enough without mixing it up with memories?
- Petey Brown: I don't know. Mine don't go back far enough yet.
- San Thomas: Why do you think I came down to a joint like this as soon as I could?
- Petey Brown: Yeah. Yeah, I get it. Music. Bad liquor.
- San Thomas: It's hard to break the habit.
- Petey Brown: Well, why would you want to break the habit?
- San Thomas: I kept trying to make that piano do a lot of things I guess no one guy can do. It started me drinking too much.
- Petey Brown: Yeah. I know what you mean. Everything looks nice and sharp when you've had a couple. But, when the edge wears off, the whole works is a dull finish. It's no good.
- San Thomas: Yeah, that's the way it was with me. Then, I really went haywire.
- San Thomas: Petey, you're swell. I don't want to mess up your life too.
- Petey Brown: Look, let me handle my funeral in my own way, will you?
- [kiss]
- Petey Brown: You certainly worked hard at running away from yourself, haven't you? And you're still unhappy.
- San Thomas: Who's looking for happiness? At the present time, my life's a comfortable blank and that's okay with me.
- Petey Brown: She put you through the wringer, didn't she? I wonder what women like that have got?
- San Thomas: I don't know; but, she had it. Whatever it is.
- Petey Brown: She still does something to you, doesn't she?
- San Thomas: Oh, I don't know, Petey. There've been months at a time I never gave her a thought. Then, something happens, it reminds me of her. A screwy hat on some girl passing in the street. A pair of slim legs. High heels clicking in the pavement.
- San Thomas: Doesn't what I've said to you make sense?
- [Petey shakes her head no]
- San Thomas: You crazy little dame, you.
- [kiss]
- San Thomas: I don't know what makes me tick, Petey. I just know that I've been running away from life for a long time and it keeps catching up with me.