The Parallax View (1974)
Warren Beatty: Joseph Frady
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Quotes
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Bill Rintels : [after Frady's run-in with police] You're enjoying yourself, aren't you.
Joseph Frady : You gotta admit, it's funny.
Bill Rintels : It makes me laugh, but I don't think it's funny.
Joseph Frady : What's that supposed to mean?
Bill Rintels : Have you ever laughed at a comedian when he pretended to stutter? There's nothing funny about a man who stutters, but people laugh. They're amused. But they're not happy about it.
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Joseph Frady : [to Deputy Sheriff] Don't touch me unless you love me.
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Deputy Red : [Frady's just ordered milk at a bar.] Can I buy you a drink, miss? You know there for a moment, I thought you were a man. But you aren't are you?
Joseph Frady : No, I'm a girl.
Deputy Red : Why don't you go right over there and tell those people that? Real loud.
[grabs Frady's jacket.]
Joseph Frady : Don't touch me unless you love me.
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Sheriff L.D. Wicker : [Frady just beat up Deputy Red.] You just come over here and sit down. You're alright, son.
Joseph Frady : Listen, you wouldn't be offended if I called the police, would you?
Sheriff L.D. Wicker : No, but you don't have to call very far because Red's a deputy. And if that isn't good enough, I'm the sheriff.
Joseph Frady : You got some interesting ideas about law enforcement.
Sheriff L.D. Wicker : I could have stopped the fight. I would have if you'd have been gettin' whipped, but I dearly love seeing ol' Red get stomped.
Joseph Frady : He's your deputy?
Sheriff L.D. Wicker : Well, you see he's my sister's boy. Had to do something nice for her, he's so damn mean he can't get along with anybody else. He's dumb. He's a real turkey. You know, you move his plate five inches, that boy's gonna starve to death.
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Jack Younger : Just one more thing.
Joseph Frady : What's that?
Jack Younger : Who are you?
Joseph Frady : [taken aback] Who am I?
Jack Younger : You're not Richard Paley. Your service records don't check.
Joseph Frady : They don't?
Jack Younger : There was a Richard Paley in the 1st Air Cavalry, but among other things, he's dead.
Joseph Frady : Gee, I'm sorry to hear that.
Jack Younger : So were we. So... who are you really?
Joseph Frady : [getting defensive] Look, I don't need to tell you anything. You're not a cop.
[Frady turns around to leave]
Jack Younger : I wouldn't walk out that door if I were you.
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Joseph Frady : Look, why don't you go out and bust up a keno game. Do something worthwhile for chrissakes, you two bit vice squad, you're not only dumb, you're dirty.
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Austin Tucker : Now I don't know what you want but if it's money, I'll give you ten thousand dollars to keep me out of it. You don't mention my name, you don't come looking for me. All I want is to stay out of it.
Joseph Frady : Sorry, Mr. Tucker, you've got information I need. Money doesn't mean anything to me. This story's gonna mean more to me than ten thousand dollars.
Austin Tucker : Fella, you don't know what this story means.
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Jack Younger : Your tests suggest that you have remarkable talents.
Joseph Frady : Yeah? What do you mean by "talents"?
Jack Younger : You have difficulty holding on to a job, don't you?
Joseph Frady : I don't know, I just don't like to take a lot of shit, so people say I got antisocial tendencies.
Jack Younger : Right! Now, tell me, has it ever crossed your mind that maybe it's everybody else's problem that they don't get along with you?
Joseph Frady : Why?
Jack Younger : Because, you see, the very quality that gets you in trouble is what makes you potentially invaluable.
Joseph Frady : What's that?
Jack Younger : Your aggressiveness.
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Joseph Frady : I'm dead, Bill. I just want to stay that way for awhile.
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Tucker's Aide : I have to do a skin search.
Joseph Frady : A what?
Tucker's Aide : You're gonna strip and I'm gonna search you.
Joseph Frady : Are you out of your fuckin' mind?
Tucker's Aide : Look, that's the way Mr. Tucker wants it. And if I don't see you, you don't see him.
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Joseph Frady : Hey, L.D., what's the news on your friend, uh, Buster?
Sheriff L.D. Wicker : Well... Actually there just ain't no Buster.
[pulls gun]
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Jack Younger : Who are you? I simply have to know.
Joseph Frady : All right. I'm Richard Partun.
Jack Younger : Why did you want us to think you were Richard Paley?
Joseph Frady : I needed a job. I got into a little difficulty in El Monte a couple of months ago.
Jack Younger : What kind of trouble?
Joseph Frady : Is it important?
Jack Younger : It's important.
Joseph Frady : Well, I was drinking in this bar and, uh... I used to drink a lot. Next thing I know, I'm running around a laundromat, only I don't have any clothes on. And some old lady claimed I was trying to... you know, molest her.
Jack Younger : Were you?
Joseph Frady : I don't know. I don't know what I was doin' there, I don't remember a thing. I don't know how I got there. Nothing. All I know is that they, uh, arrested me for... indecent exposure. You know, a thing like that can follow you around. You try to get a job, you're a "sex offender." I'm no sex offender.
Jack Younger : No, I'm sure you're not.
Joseph Frady : You know what I think? In that bar they put something in my beer that made me take off my clothes.
Jack Younger : Well, if that's all there is to it, we'll check it out with the El Monte police. It'll be no problem.
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Joseph Frady : Have you been calling me?
Lee Carter : A lot.
Joseph Frady : Any particular reason?
Lee Carter : Somebody's trying to kill me.
Joseph Frady : Somebody besides yourself?
Lee Carter : How can you say that? I've never tried to kill myself successfully.
Joseph Frady : Last time you were here I think you lost your cat and I had to find it under the freeway?
Lee Carter : I haven't lost my cat.
Joseph Frady : Yeah, and it was the time before that it was your husband.
Lee Carter : You may find this difficult to accept but I'm terrified.
Joseph Frady : I think if memory serves me you were always terrified about something or other, I think it was that some guy might come up and attack you in bed.
Lee Carter : Not as long as you were there.
