Carmen Jones (1954)

Harry Belafonte: Joe

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• Joe : Thanks, but I don't drink.

  Carmen Jones : Boy, if the army was made up of nothin' but soldiers like you, war wouldn't do nobody no good.

• Joe : I'm busted. I gave the last of my pay to the landlady.

  Carmen Jones : I got some jingly stuff.

  Joe : I ain't gonna let you shell out.

  Carmen Jones : We gotta eat, growin' boy.

  Joe : Not on your dough.

  Carmen Jones : What's mine's yours, Joey, and that goes right down the line.

• Carmen Jones : I don't account to no man.

  Joe : You're accountin' to me. I love you and that gives me the right to...

  Carmen Jones : That don't give you no right to own me. There's only one that does - and that's me. Myself.

• Joe : I could stay in this place the rest of my life and never go out - as long as you're here. But when you ain't, it's worse than jail. Ain't no light, no air.

  Carmen Jones : Suppose I never come back?

  Joe : You'd never get away from me. I'd follow you down the rivers, across the sea, to hell or up to heaven. Why'd you ask?

  Carmen Jones : Just to hear you say it.

• Cindy Lou : Don't get into trouble on account of me.

  Joe : I never saw trouble look better.

• Cindy Lou : That girl's mighty pretty.

  Joe : Oh, I don't know.

  Cindy Lou : She's what the fellas back home call a hot bundle,

• Joe : Hey. Hey! Goin' to flyin' school's nothing to cry about.

  Cindy Lou : Either got to cry or bust. I'm so proud of you.

• Carmen Jones : I'd like to toss a party for you tonight at Billy Pastor's. Give you a real send-off. Pick me up at eight. We'll have ourselves a ball.

  Joe : Sorry. I got a date.

  Carmen Jones : Honeybee, if you change your mind, you know where to buzz me.

• Cindy Lou : Looks like she's on fire just for you.

  Joe : I never lit it, honey.

• Joe : [singing]  She ain't the best, They all the same, Like all the rest, She's just a dame...

• Joe : You double-crossin' tramp!

• Carmen Jones : Can't you get it through your head? We're done. Now let me go.

  Joe : I'd sooner kill ya.

  Carmen Jones : Then here's your chance.

  Joe : [singing]  But all I wanna do, Is love you...

• Joe : [singing]  Where can I put my memories? They got no sea to drown in...