Frankie and Johnny – Movie Quotes

— Why do you want to kill yourself sometimes?
— I want to kill myself when I think I'm the only person in the world and that part of me that feels that way is trapped inside this body that only bumps into other bodies without connecting to another person in the world trapped inside of them.

— She's been waiting on me for ten years.
— No wonder she's sick.

— I'm retired from dating.
— What does that mean? Something happened when you were a kid? What? You know, why is it that any time a woman doesn't want to get involved, men think it's because they were messed with as a kid?
— Wrong. They were messed with as a woman.

I'm afraid. I'm afraid to be alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm... I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't wanna stay at my job for the rest of my life but I... I'm... I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired, you know, I'm just so tired of being afraid.

This is WNYL in New York and you're listening to Midnight With Marlon. As you know, it's not my policy to take requests but there's always an exception to the rule. I don't know if this is the most beautiful song, Frankie and Johnny, and I wish they really were your names but I know when my leg's being pulled. God, how I wish you two really existed. Maybe I'm crazy, but I'd still
like to believe in love. Why do you think I work these hours? Anyway, you two moonbeams, whoever, wherever you are, whatever you're doing... this one's for you. Here's an encore.

— Why do you want to go out with me?
— Because the heart does things for reasons that reason cannot understand.

— You don't think we'd fit, do you? We fit, Frankie. We fit like... peas in a pod, like a lock and a key.
— I'm not sure I like where your key's been.

Not everyone thinks life is a picnic. Some of us have problems. Some of us have sorrows. People like you are so busy telling us what you want you don't notice the rest of us who aren't exactly singing Yankee Doodle Dandy.

— I never know if you're playing games or being serious.
— I'm doing both. Serious games.

You know, that is the first really rotten thing you've said to me. To make fun of somebody else's intelligence or education or lack of, that is somebody I'd be very glad not to know. I thought you were sad, weird. I didn't know you were cruel.