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Quotes from the movie Its a Wonderful Life
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Well, here's your hat, what's your hurry? All right, Mother, old Building and Loan pal, I think I'll go out and find a girl and do a little passionate necking.
George Bailey


Now you listen to me! I don't want any plastics! I don't want any ground floors, and I don't want to get married ó ever ó to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do.
George Bailey


You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in Joe's house...right next to yours. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin's house, and a hundred others. Why, you're lending them the money to build, and then, they're going to pay it back to you as best they can. Now what are you going to do? Foreclose on them?...Now wait...now listen...now listen to me. I beg of you not to do this thing. If Potter gets hold of this Building and Loan there'll never be another decent house built in this town. He's already got charge of the bank. He's got the bus line. He's got the department stores. And now he's after us. Why? Well, it's very simple. Because we're cutting in on his business, that's why. And because he wants to keep you living in his slums and paying the kind of rent he decides. Joe, you lived in one of his houses, didn't you? Well, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten what he charged you for that broken-down shack? Here, Ed. You know, you remember last year when things weren't going so well, and you couldn't make your payments. You didn't lose your house, did you? Do you think Potter would have let you keep it? Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's picking up some bargains. Now, we can get through this thing all right. We've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other.
George Bailey


A toast! A toast to Papa Dollar and to Mama Dollar, and if you want the old Building and Loan to stay in business, you better have a family real quick.
George Bailey


Where's that money, you stupid, silly old fool? Where's the money?! Do you realize what this means? It means bankruptcy and scandal and prison! That's what it means. One of us is going to jail! Well, it's not gonna be me!
George Bailey


Clarence! Clarence! Help me, Clarence. Get me back. Get me back. I don't care what happens to me. Only get me back to my wife and kids. Help me, Clarence, please. Please! I want to live again. I want to live again. I want to live again.....Please, God, let me live again.
George Bailey


Well whaddya know about that!!!
George Bailey


What are you doing, picketing?
Mary Hatch


He's making violent love to me, mother.
Mary Hatch


Remember that night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for.
Mary Hatch


How am I doing, Joseph? Thanks. No, I didn't have a drink!
Clarence Oddbody


Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
Clarence Oddbody


There must be some easier way for me to get my wings.
Clarence Oddbody


"Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings, Love Clarence."
Clarence Oddbody


See George, you really had a wonderful life.
Clarence Oddbody


Is this the ear you can't hear on? George Bailey - I'll love you till the day I die.
Young Mary Hatch


Oh, he's a sick man. Frustrated and sick. Sick in his mind, sick in his soul, if he has one. Hates everybody that has anything that he can't have. Hates us mostly, I guess.
Peter Bailey


What's the matter, Othello - jealous? Did you know there's a swimming pool under this floor? And did you know that button behind you causes this floor to open up? And did you further know that George Bailey is dancing right over that crack? And I've got the key!
Mickey


I'm glad I know you, George Bailey.
Violet Bick


Can you sing, Daddy?
Tommy Bailey


Mary did it, George! Mary did it! She told a few people you were in trouble and they scattered all over town collecting money. They didn't ask any questions ó just said: "If George is in trouble ó count on me." You never saw anything like it.
Uncle Billy


A toast to my big brother George: The richest man in town!
Harry Bailey


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