The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

The Last Night of a Jockey (1963)

Mickey Rooney: Grady

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Grady : [answers the phone]  Yeah. This is Grady. Who? What paper? Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, so you're the creep that... I said creep! Yeah, I know who you are! I know who you are! Sure, I read your column. Every time I read it, it makes me sick, I wanna use a stomach pump. Don't try and nuzzle up to me with that Mr. Grady stuff. Three years ago you stuck in the shiv! Listen to me, I had nothing to do with horse doping. NOTHING, you understand that?

  [conversation continues] 

  Grady : Ah, oh sure, a couple of taps on the typewriter and I get a 60-day suspension!

  Grady : [listens]  Yeah, go ahead, you could talk pretty safe now, you're 50 blocks away. If you were here in this room now, I'd scrape you off the wall and put you in a cup. How does that grab you? This is a statement to the press! Grady to the press, you fink, ya hyenas down there! Listen, and don't forget to spell the name correct! Grady! G-R-A-D-Y!

• [Grady has now grown to 10 feet tall, barely fitting into his apartment] 

  Grady : I'm gonna ri... Wait a minute. I'm too big. I'm too big. I'M TOO BIG! I CAN'T RIDE! WAIT A MINUTE! I CAN'T RIDE!

  [Grady begins trashing his tiny apartment] 

  Grady : I CAN'T WEAR MY CLOTHES! I'M TOO-I'M TOO BIG! I'M TOO BIG! HEAR ME? I'M TOO BIG! I'M TOO BIG! I CAN'T RIDE! NO!

  [Grady has been brought to his knees in desperation] 

  Grady : Please, please. Please, make me small! Please, I'll never ask for anything again. PLEASE, MAKE ME SMALL. PLEASE! OH, GOD.

  Grady : [as Grady's conscience; mocking]  You are small, Mr. Grady. You see, every time you won an honest race, that's when you were a giant. Right now, they just don't come any smaller.