Gentleman's Agreement Quotes

Gentleman's Agreement is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Gentleman's Agreement ended its run in 1970.

It features Darryl F. Zanuck as producer, Alfred Newman (composer) in charge of musical score, and Arthur C. Miller as head of cinematography.

Gentleman's Agreement is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Gentleman's Agreement is 118 minutes long. Gentleman's Agreement is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Gentleman's Agreement Quotes

• (Kathy Lacey) "You can't help that you were born Christian instead of Jewish. It doesn't mean you're glad you were. But I am glad. There, I said it."

• (Mrs. Green) "Are you very disappointed, Phil?"
• (Phil Green) "Yes, I am. I was almost sure he'd hand me the Stassen story or Washington. Oh, I wasn't looking for an easy one, Ma, but I did want something I could make good on. I'd so like the first one here to be a natural. Something I know they would read."
• (Mrs. Green) "Oh, you mean, there's enough anti-Semitism in real life without people reading about it?"
• (Phil Green) "No, but this one's doomed before I start. What can I say that hasn't been said before?"
• (Mrs. Green) "I don't know. Maybe it hasn't been said well enough. If it had, you wouldn't have had to explain it to Tommy just now, or you father and I to you. It would be nice sometime, not to have to explain it to someone like Tommy. Kids are so decent to start with."

• (John Minify) "I've asked Phil to do a piece on anti-Semitism."
• (Kathy Lacey) "Am I going to get a credit line?"
• (John Minify) "You? Why?"
• (Kathy Lacey) "Well, don't you remember last winter when that Jewish schoolteacher resigned, and I --"
• (John Minify) "Oh, yes. Well, I knew somebody would be asking me for a credit line. I'm always stealing ideas without realizing it."
• (Kathy Lacey) "That's what makes your magazine so original."

• (Phil Green) "Some people hate Catholics, some people hate Jews."
• (Tommy Green) "And no one hates us because we're Americans."

• (John Minify) "I wouldn't call a dog Schuyler."

• (Kathy Lacey) "Oh, Dave, we couldn't get married without you. What happened?"
• (Dave Goldman) "Nothing. That's just it. I can't abandon my family forever, and I can't find a house or an apartment. If it was just me, I'd sleep on the subway, but I've got Carol and the kids. I've got to go back. I'm licked."
• (Phil Green) "But that means your job, your whole future."
• (Dave Goldman) "I'll live. I've done it before."
• (Kathy Lacey) "But, Dave, that's terrible."

• (Professor Fred Lieberman) "Millions of people nowadays are religious only in the vaguest sense. I've often wondered why the Jews among them still go on calling themselves Jews. Do you know, Mr. Green?"
• (Phil Green) "No, but I'd like to."
• (Professor Fred Lieberman) "Because the world still makes it an advantage not to be one. Thus it becomes a matter of pride to go on calling ourselves Jews."

• (Phil Green) "I'm going to let everybody know I'm Jewish."
• (Kathy Lacey) "Jewish? But you're not. Are you? Not that it would make any difference to me. But you said, "Let everybody know," as if you hadn't before and would now. So I just wondered. Not that it would make any difference to me. Phil, you're annoyed."
• (Phil Green) "No, I'm just thinking."
• (Kathy Lacey) "Well, don't look serious about it. Surely you must know where I stand."
• (Phil Green) "Oh, I do."
• (Kathy Lacey) "You just caught me off-guard."

• (Phil Green) "Funny thing, that girl, Mr. Minify's niece suggested the series on antisemitism. Funny."
• (Mrs. Green) "You don't say? Why, women will be thinking next, Phil."

• (Phil Green) "Ma, I've got it. I've got the idea, the angle, the lead. I'll be Jewish. Why, all I've got to do is just say it. No one around here knows me. I can live with myself for six weeks, eight weeks, nine months. Ma, this is it."
• (Mrs. Green) "It must be. It always is when you're this sure."
• (Phil Green) "Ma, listen, I've even got the title. "I Was Jewish for Six Months.""
• (Mrs. Green) "It's right, Phil."
• (Phil Green) "Ma, it's like this click just happened inside me. It won't be the same, sure, but it'll be close. I can just tell them I'm Jewish and see what happens."
• (Mrs. Green) "It'll work fine, Phil."
• (Phil Green) "Dark hair, dark eyes. Just like Dave. Just like a lot of guys who aren't Jewish. No accent, no mannerisms. Neither has Dave."

• (Kathy Lacey) "You think I'm an anti-Semite."
• (Phil Green) "No, I don't. But I've come to see lots of nice people who hate it and deplore it and protest their own innocence, then help it along and wonder why it grows. People who would never beat up a Jew. People who think anti-Semitism is far away in some dark place with low-class morons. That's the biggest discovery I've made. The good people. The nice people."

• (Elaine Wales) "I changed my name. Did you?"
• (Phil Green) "Green has always been my name. What's yours?"
• (Elaine Wales) "Estelle Walovsky. I couldn't take it. The applications, I mean. So one day I wrote the same firm two letters, same as you're doing now. I sent the Elaine Wales one, and I sent it after they said there were no openings. Well, I got the job, all right. Do you know what firm that was? "Smith's Weekly.""
• (Phil Green) "No."
• (Elaine Wales) "Yes, Mr. Green. The great liberal magazine that fights injustice on all sides."

• (Tommy Green) "Pop, what's that?"
• (Phil Green) "That's a statue of Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders."
• (Tommy Green) "No kidding? That's what Grandma says you're doing. She says she wishes you'd leave the world alone once in a while."

• (Phil Green) "You want the moon."
• (John Minify) "yeah --. with parsley."

• (Tommy Green) "They called me a dirty Jew and a stinking kike, and they all ran away."
• (Kathy Lacey) "Oh, darling, it's not true. You're no more Jewish than I am. It's just some horrible mistake."
• (Phil Green) "Kathy."

• (Phil Green) "I don't have to kiss you in public, I have a nice, dark taxi outside"
• (Phil Green) "."

• (Tommy Green) "Grandma said to wake you."
• (Phil Green) "It's late, isn't it?"
• (Tommy Green) "Yeah. Here's your bathrobe."
• (Phil Green) "I don't want it."
• (Tommy Green) "Put it on, I said."

• (Resort Clerk) "In answer to your question, do you follow the Hebrew religion yourself, or do you just want to make sure?"
• (Phil Green) "I've asked a simple question, and I'd like a simple answer."
• (Resort Clerk) "Well, we have a very high-class clientele, and, well --"
• (Phil Green) "Then you do restrict your guests to Gentiles?"
• (Resort Clerk) "Well, I would hardly say that, and in any event, there seems to have been some mistake because we don't have a single free room in the entire hotel."

• (Phil Green) "So far I've been digging in facts and data-I've sort of been ignoring feelings."

• (Dave Goldman) "There was a boy in our outfit -- Abe Schlussman. Good soldier. Good engineer. One night, we got bombed, and he caught it. I was ten yards off. Somebody said -- ''Give me a hand with this sheeny.'' Those were the last words he ever heard."

• (Kathy Lacey) "I was right not to settle. I was right to keep dreaming, because it's all come true. Darling, we're going to be so happy here. This house and I were waiting for you. I was always waiting for you, I think."

• (Anne Dettrey) "I know dear, and some of your other best friends are Methodist, but you never bother to say it."

• (Mrs. Green) "I never realized pain could be so -- sharp."

• (Phil Green) "You aren't going to fit it at all, Kathy. You're just going to give in and let their idiotic rules stand."
• (Kathy Lacey) "What can one person do?"
• (Phil Green) "What can they do?"
• (Kathy Lacey) "Plenty. Ostracize him."
• (Phil Green) "And you expect me to live there now that I know all this?"
• (Kathy Lacey) "Oh, you can't change the whole world."

• (Tommy Green) "They were playing hop, and I asked if I could play too, and the one from school said no dirty little Jew could play with them. And they all yelled those other things. I started to speak, and they all yelled that my father has a long curly beard, and they turned and ran. Why did they, Pop? Why?"
• (Phil Green) "Come on, drink some of this."
• (Phil Green) "Did you want to tell them that you weren't really Jewish?"
• (Tommy Green) "No."
• (Phil Green) "That's good. See, there's are a lot of kids just like you Tommy, who are Jewish, and if you said it, it would sort of be admitting there was something bad in being Jewish; and something swell in not."
• (Tommy Green) "They wouldn't fight. They just ran."
• (Phil Green) "Yeah, I know. There's a lot of grown-ups just like that too, Tom, only they do it with wisecracks instead of with yelling."

• (Kathy Lacey) "I called up my sister Jane and blurted it out, and she squealed, "Kathy." as if she had given up any hope of anyone ever asking me. She's aching to meet you. She and her husband are giving a big party for us on Sunday. By the way, won't we have to let Jane in on it?"
• (Phil Green) "I hadn't thought so."
• (Kathy Lacey) "But we will, won't we? Your mother knows."
• (Phil Green) "She had to. Jane and her husband don't. If you want to keep a secret --"
• (Kathy Lacey) "But wouldn't it be sort of exaggerated with my own sister? Your sister-in-law, almost. I do think it would be inflexible of you."
• (Phil Green) "I suppose it would be, inside the family. But they won't let anybody know, will they?"
• (Kathy Lacey) "They won't breathe it. They want to fight this awful thing just as much as you and I do."

• (Kathy Lacey) "You can't make over the whole world. You know I'm on Dave's side."
• (Phil Green) "Well, I'm not on Dave's side or any side, except against their side."

• (Mrs. Green) "You know something, Phil? I suddenly want to live to be very old. Very. I want to be around to see what happens. The world is stirring in very strange ways. Maybe this is the century for it. Maybe that's why it's so troubled. Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look back? Maybe it won't be the American century after all -- or the Russian century or the atomic century. Wouldn't it be wonderful -- if it turned out to be everybody's century -- when people all over the world; free people; found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that -- even the beginning. I may stick around for quite a while."

• (Phil Green) "I've been saying I'm Jewish, and it works."
• (Dave Goldman) "Why, you crazy fool. It's working?"
• (Phil Green) "It works too well. I've been having my nose rubbed in it, and I don't like the smell."
• (Dave Goldman) "You're not insulated yet, Phil. The impact must be quite a business on you."
• (Phil Green) "You mean you get indifferent to it in time?"
• (Dave Goldman) "No, but you're concentrating a lifetime into a few weeks. You're not changing the facts, you're just making them hurt more."

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