The Lost Weekend (1945) Quotes with Sound Clips - page 2

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Actors: Ray Milland (Don Birnam), Jane Wyman (Helen St. James), Doris Dowling (Gloria), Howard da Silva (Nat)

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21 That's what's going to be hard to write. Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. It's so simple. You've got to catch it through details... like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rainspout in front of her house.

— Don Birnam (Ray Milland)

22 The only way to start is to stop. There is no cure besides just stopping.

— Helen St. James (Jane Wyman)

23 There is now being presented at a theatre on Forty-Fourth Street, the uncut version of Hamlet. Now, I see us as setting out for that. Do you know Hamlet? -I know Forty-fourth Street.

— Don Birnam (Ray Milland), Gloria (Doris Dowling)

24 What I'm trying to say is I'm not a drinker. I'm a drunk. They had to put me away once. -He went to a cure. -Which didn't take.

— Don Birnam (Ray Milland)

25 All right, it's charity. I'm begging you. Give me one. -Yeah, one. One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

— Nat (Howard Da Silva), Don Birnam (Ray Milland)

26 And out there, in that great big concrete jungle, I wonder how many others are like me. Poor bedeviled guys, on fire with thirst. Such comical figures to the rest of the world, as they stagger blindly towards another binge, another bender, another spree.

— Don Birnam (Ray Milland)

27 Come on. I need that liquor, I want it, I'm going to get it, understand. I'm going to walk out of here with that quart of rye, one way or another.
28 Dinner later, I think. Nothing before. I want you to always see Shakespeare on an empty stomach. -Not even a pretzel?

— Don Birnam (Ray Milland), Gloria (Doris Dowling)

29 If we let you guys go home alone a lot of you don't go home. You just hit the nearest bar and bounce right back again. What we call the Quick Richochet.
30 Listen, I can pick an alky with one eye shut. You're an alky... You'll come back. They all do. Him, for instance, shows up every month, just like the gas bill.

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