Man's Castle (1933)

Loretta Young: Trina

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Quotes 

• Trina : Gosh, even birds can't fly all the time. They get tired and have to come home.

• Bill : You're a heck of a lookin' woman for a guy like me.

  Trina : Mmhmm. I know this isn't going to be a very good stew.

  Bill : Look at ya. Skinny as a rail. No hips, no thighs, no nothin'.

  Trina : I wonder if I put those potatoes in too soon.

  Bill : A man like me oughta have a woman who's a woman. A woman who's got somethin' a man can grab hold of.

  Trina : Yes sir, that's just what I did. I put those potatoes in too soon.

  Bill : Who wants to grab ahold of a load of bones. That's all you are, bones. You know that, don't you?

  Trina : Yeah, but I'm young kind of.

  Bill : That don't make no difference.

  Trina : Maybe it does. Maybe I'll sort of fill out after.

  Bill : Nah, nah. You'll never look like a woman. You ain't got it in you to look like a one.

  Trina : What difference does it make as long as you're good to me?

  Bill : I ain't good to you! Don't get that idea in your nut. That's what spoils 'em - bein' good to 'em. You gotta step on it if you want to be with me or you get your teeth knocked out.

  [Trina smiles] 

  Bill : I think I'd knock 'em out anyway.

• Bill : No female has to starve in a town like this.

  Trina : Why not?

  Bill : Because she's female.

  Trina : Have you ever been out of work for a whole year?

  Bill : I been outta work all my life. Besides, the unemployment situation's got nothin' to with women. Didja ever think of that?

  Trina : Yeah, I thought of it.

  Bill : Well?

  Trina : [looking down]  I couldn't.

  Bill : Oh, I s'pose the river would be better than that.

  Trina : Yeah, I thought of that, too.

• Bill : Suppose I wake up some morning with a taste like wet hen-feathers in my mouth? You know, women don't look so good in the mornings. I'm just as apt to give you a push in the face, and take a stroll for myself, as not.

  Trina : Maybe that won't be right away. I mean, not tomorrow, quite so soon, huh?

  Bill : Oh, you can't tell. You never know how a day's gonna feel.

• Trina : That's the best food ever I ate. I feel better now.

  Bill : Yeah, you look better too. If you filled out, here and there, you'd get by in a crowd at that. You know, a woman should stick out here and there.

  Trina : You can't help the way you're made.

• Bill : Here we are, Who'is. Bagville on the Hudson, the fastest growing community in the East. You'll find more unemployment here than in any other place in the world. The city gave it to the boys and girls to loaf in until the NRA get's going. One of these days when I'm in the mood, I'm gonna start a Chamber of Commerce to tell the world about it. How do you like it?

  Trina : Oh, it's swell.

• Trina : What do you do for a living?

  Bill : I live.

• Flossie : Who ever heard of a Bindlestiff gettin' money?

  Trina : What's a Bindlestiff?

  Flossie : A guy who can't stay put. Except maybe in jail.

  Trina : Well, Bill's no Bindlestiff. He can make all the money he wants if he wants to. He's got personality, he has.

• Trina : I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

  Bill : Nuts.

• Trina : Oh, look at them ships down there with the sails on them. Oh, they look so peaceful and contented like.

  Bill : Come on, they've been laying there for years, rotting away with barnacles. That's what happens to you when you're anchored.

  Trina : Still in all, it's so restful.

  Bill : Restful? So is a graveyard.

• Trina : [nighttime]  What are you doing?

  Bill : Taking off my clothes.

  Trina : What are you doing *that* for?

  Bill : [runs out nude and dives into a pond]  Warm as milk. Come on in.

  Trina : I would if I had a bathing suit.

  Bill : What do you want me to do? Come up there and throw you in? Clothes and all?

  Trina : No!

  [races off camera, pause, hear a splash, on camera swimming nude to Bill] 

  Bill : I'll race ya.

  Trina : Where to?

  Bill : To the moon.

• Bill : What are you doing here?

  Trina : I - I was just admiring that stove. That one. It's beautiful ain't it? And cheap too, only 5 dollars. That's 5 dollars down and only 2 dollars a month for only 12 months. No interest.

  Bill : No interest is right as far as I'm concerned.

• Bill : What's this here?

  Trina : Oh, Ira gave me that. He wants me to read it sometime when I've got nothing else to do.

  Bill : There's one thing in here you don't want to miss.

  Trina : I do wish I had some kind of a stove.

  Bill : The Song of Songs which is Solomon's. Get this. "Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels"

  Trina : It's hard to cook with this kind of a fire?

  Bill : "Behold, thou art fair, my love; Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet"

  Trina : I cannot get an even heat.

  Bill : "How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!"

• Bill : Hey, stupid.

  Trina : Oh. Oh. Oh, Bill. Oh, Bill.

• Bragg : That's a fine man you picked yourself, kid.

  Trina : Yeah, well he suits me.

  Bragg : Yeah, but do you suit him? You wouldn't think so the way he's always playin' you down. Crabbin' about how skinny you are.

  Trina : Well I am skinny!

  Bragg : No you're not. You're slim. But, not skinny. I know what I'm talkin' about.

• Bill : Did that hurt?

  Trina : Not when you don't mean it.

  Bill : What would you do if I really slugged you hard?

  Trina : Bill, you like being with me, don't you?

  Bill : I ain't so nuts about you. You're pretty skinny. Come on, let me go.

  Trina : Bill, ain't tired of me yet, are you?

  Bill : Let me go, I tell you, before I sock you.

• Flossie : You're young. You're pretty. You got a shape, ain't ya? Well?

  Trina : No, I don't guess my shape's much good. You see, I'm kinda skinny.

  Flossie : Who told you that?

  Trina : Bill.

  Flossie : There's a man for ya. Never expect a man to tell ya anything nice about yourself. They're afraid you're gonna get wise that you're too good for 'em. You got plenty of shape, all right. Yeah. Almost as good as I was at your age.