Newsies Quotes

Newsies is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Newsies stopped airing in 1970.

It features Michael Finnell as producer, Alan Menken; J.A.C. Redford in charge of musical score, and Andrew Laszlo as head of cinematography.

Newsies is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Newsies is 121 minutes long. Newsies is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

The cast includes: Gabriel Damon as Spot Conlon, William Boyett as Judge Monahan, Robert Duvall as Joseph Pulitzer, David Moscow as David Jacobs, Christian Bale as Jack Kelly, Charles Cioffi as Seitz, Max Casella as Racetrack, Marty Belafsky as Crutchy, Arvie Lowe, Jr. as Boots, Aaron Lohr as Mush, Bill Pullman as Bryan Denton, Michael A. Goorjian as Skittery, Jeffrey DeMunn as Les Jacobs, Marc Lawrence as Kloppman, Robert Duvall as Pulitzer, and Marty Belafsky as Dutchy.

Newsies Quotes

Marty Belafsky as Crutchy

• (Marty Belafsky) "When ya work with Jack ya work with da best --"
• (Bumlets) "The best."

• (Marty Belafsky) "But you can't let 'em beat you, right Jack? That's what you always said."
• (Christian Bale) "We was beat when we was born."

• (Marty Belafsky) "It's this brain of mine, it's always makin' mistakes -- it's got a mind of its own."

• (Marty Belafsky) "So'd I spell it right, Kloppman?"
• (Marc Lawrence) "Very good, that's very good."
• (Marty Belafsky) "Strike."

• (Marty Belafsky) "Jack, when I walk, does it look like I'm fakin' it?"
• (Christian Bale) "Nah, Crutchy, who says ye'r fakin' it?"
• (Marty Belafsky) "I don't know -- It's just there's so many fake crips on the streets today, a real crip ain't got a chance. I gotta find me a new sellin' spot where they ain't used to seein' me."
• (Aaron Lohr) "Try Bottle Alley or da harbor."
• (Max Casella) "Try Central Park, it's guaranteed."
• (Christian Bale) "Try any banker, bum, or barber."
• (Michael A. Goorjian) "They almost all knows how to read."

• (Kid Blink) "I smell money."
• (Marty Belafsky) "You smell foul."

Christian Bale as Jack Kelly

• (Christian Bale) "No, it's 19, Weasel. It's 19. But don't worry about it. It's an honest mistake. I mean, Morris, he can't count to 20 with his shoes on."

• (Christian Bale) "Extry, extry, read all about it. Ellis Island in flames."
• (David Moscow) "Hey, where's that story?"
• (Christian Bale) "Page nine. Thousands Flee in Panic."
• (David Moscow) ""Trash Fire Next To Immigration Building Terrifies Seagulls"?"
• (Christian Bale) "Terrified Flight from Inferno."

• (Christian Bale) "So what do you say, Spot?"
• (Gabriel Damon) "I say -- that what you say -- is what I say."

• (Christian Bale) "So, what about Brooklyn? Who wants Brooklyn? C'mon, Spot Conlon's territory."
• (Christian Bale) "Whats'a matta, you scared of Brooklyn?"
• (Arvie Lowe, Jr.) "Hey, we ain't scared of Brooklyn."
• (Arvie Lowe, Jr.) "Spot Conlon makes is a little noivous."

• (Christian Bale) "One thing's for sure, if we don't sell papes, then nobody sells papes. Nobody comes through those gates until they put the price back to where it was."
• (David Moscow) "You mean like a strike?"
• (Christian Bale) "Yeah, like a strike."
• (David Moscow) "Are you out of your mind?"
• (Christian Bale) "It's a good idea."
• (David Moscow) "Jack, I was only joking. We can't go on strike, we don't have a union."
• (Christian Bale) "But, if we go on strike, then we are a union, right?"
• (David Moscow) "No. We're just a bunch of angry kids with no money."

• (Christian Bale) "So this snooty mug says to me, 'You can't see Mr. Pulitzer. No one sees Mr. Pulitzer.' Real hoity-toity, you know the type?"
• (Jeffrey DeMunn) "Real hoity-toity."
• (Christian Bale) "So that's when I says to him, 'Listen, I ain't in the habit of transacting no business with office boys. Just tell him Jack Kelly's here to see him now.'"
• (Jeffrey DeMunn) "That's when he threw us out."

• (Christian Bale) "I'm just not used to havin' whether I stay or whether I go matter to anybody. I'm not sayin' that it should matter to you. I'm just sayin', um- but does it? Matter?"

• (Christian Bale) "Carrying the banner."

• (Christian Bale) "You shouldn't be callin' people lousy little shrimps, Oscar, unless you're referrin' to the family resemblance in your brother here."

• (Christian Bale) "It ain't lyin'. It's just improvin' the truth a little."

• (Christian Bale) "For a dreamer, night's the only time of day."

• (Christian Bale) "We gotta get the word out to every newsie in the city. We need some of those --"
• (David Moscow) "Ambassadors?"
• (Christian Bale) "Yeah, yeah. Okay, you guys gotta go out and be, uh, am-bastards."

• (Christian Bale) "And so's your old lady. You tell Mr. Pulitzer he's gotta have an appointment with me."

• (Christian Bale) "There's a lot of people out there, and they ain't just gonna go away. They got voices now and they're goin' to be listened to. Putting them in jail is not going to stop them. That's the power of the press, Joe. So thanks for teaching me about it."
• (Charles Cioffi) "Those kids put out a pretty good paper there, Chief."
• (Robert Duvall) "I ordered a printing ban on all strike matters. Now, who defied me? Whose press did you use to print this on? Whose?"
• (Christian Bale) "Well, we only use the best, Joe. So, I just want to say -- thanks again."

• (Christian Bale) "Got no brains. Why we starting to fight each other? Its just what the big shots wanna see. That we're street trash, street rats with no brains. No respect for nothin' including ourselfs. So heres how it is if we don't act together then we nothin'. if we don't stick together we nothin'. And if we can't even trust each other, then we nothin'. So whats it gunna be?"

Max Casella as Racetrack

• (Max Casella) "So what are we supposed to do to the bums, kiss em?"

• (Max Casella) "Jack Kelly? Yeah, he was here, but he put an egg in his shoe and beat it."

• (Max Casella) "You get your picture in the papes, you're famous. You're famous, you get anything you want. That's what's so great about New York."

• (Max Casella) "We ain't got five bucks. We don't even got five cents. Your Honor, how 'bout I roll ya for it, double or nuttin'?"

• (Max Casella) "Look at this. "Baby Born with Two Heads" -- must be from Brooklyn."

• (Max Casella) "Deah me, what is dat unpleasant aroma? I fear da sewer may have backed up durin' da night."

• (Max Casella) "Look at me, I'm the King Of New York."

• (Max Casella) "That's my cigar."
• (Snipeshooter) "You'll steal anudder."

Robert Duvall as Pulitzer

• (Robert Duvall) "Anyone who doesn't act in their own self interest is a fool."
• (David Moscow) "Then what does that make you?"
• (Robert Duvall) "What?"
• (Christian Bale) "Oh, this is my pal, Davey. The Walkin' Mouth."
• (David Moscow) "You talk about self-interest, but since the strike, your circulation's been down 70%. Everyday you're losing thousands of dollars just to beat us out of one lousy tenth of a cent. Why?"
• (Christian Bale) "You see, it ain't about the money, Dave. It Joe gives in to nobodies like us, it means we got the power. And he can't do that, no matter what it costs."

• (Robert Duvall) "Know what I was doing at your age, boy? I was in a war. The Civil War."
• (Christian Bale) "Yeah, I heard of it. So, did ya win?"
• (Robert Duvall) "People think war is about right or wrong and not power."
• (Christian Bale) "Yeah, I heard of that too. I don't just sell your papes, Joe. Sometime I read 'em"

• (Robert Duvall) "Now when I created the World --"

David Moscow as David Jacobs

• (David Moscow) "I've never been to Brooklyn. Have you?"
• (Arvie Lowe, Jr.) "I spent a month there one night."

• (David Moscow) "Why'd ya come back?"
• (Christian Bale) "Well, I guess I can't be somethin' I ain't."
• (David Moscow) "What, a scab?"
• (Christian Bale) "No, smart."

• (David Moscow) "He called you Sullivan."
• (Christian Bale) "Yeah, well, my name's Kelly. Jack Kelly. You think I'm lyin'?"
• (David Moscow) "You have a way of improving the truth."

• (David Moscow) "You're a liar. You lied about everything. You lied about your father being out west, 'cause he's not out west. You didn't even tell me your real name."
• (Christian Bale) "So? What you wanna do about it Dave?"
• (David Moscow) "I don't understand you."
• (Christian Bale) "Oh, so let me spell it out for ya. You see, I ain't got nobody tucking me in at night, like you. It's just me, I gotta look out for myself, all right?"
• (David Moscow) "You had the Newsies."
• (Christian Bale) "Oh, what'd being a Newsie ever give me but a dime a day and a few black eyes? You know, I can't afford to be a kid no more, Dave. For the first time in my life, I got money in my pockets. Real money. Money, you understand? I got more on the way and as soon as I collect, I'm gone, I'm away, all right?"
• (David Moscow) "Well, that's good. That's good because we don't need you. We don't need you. All those words you said, those were mine."
• (Christian Bale) "Yeah, but you never had the guts to put them across yourself, did ya?"
• (David Moscow) "I do now."

• (David Moscow) "What do you think your doing?"
• (Christian Bale) "Runnin'."

• (David Moscow) "All those words you said, those were mine."
• (Christian Bale) "Yeah, but you never had the guts to put them across yourself, didja?"
• (David Moscow) "I do now."

• (David Moscow) "Come on, keep running."
• (Christian Bale) "You shouldn't have done this, Dave. They could put you in jail."
• (David Moscow) "I don't care."
• (Christian Bale) "C'mere."
• (Christian Bale) "What about your family? What happens to them if you go to jail? You don't know nothin' about jail. Now, thanks for what you done, but you get out of here."
• (David Moscow) "I don't understand."
• (Christian Bale) "I don't understand either, but just get outta here."
• (David Moscow) "No."
• (Christian Bale) "Go."

• (David Moscow) "My father taught us not to lie."
• (Christian Bale) "Well, mine told me not to starve; so we both have an education."

• (David Moscow) "From now on, we trust no one but the Newsies."

• (David Moscow) "I've never been to Brooklyn; have you guys?"
• (Arvie Lowe, Jr.) "Spent a month there one night."

Bill Pullman as Bryan Denton

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Aaron Lohr as Mush

• (Aaron Lohr) "Hey, look at ya, Jack, you look like a gentleman."
• (Christian Bale) "Will you please get your fingers off my face."
• (Gabriel Damon) "Where does it say my name? Where's my name?"
• (Christian Bale) "Would ya quit thinkin' about yourself?"

• (Aaron Lohr) "Howd'ya sleep, Jack?"
• (Christian Bale) "On me back, Mush."

Gabriel Damon as Spot Conlon

• (Gabriel Damon) "Where's my picture? Where does it mention me?"
• (Christian Bale) "Stop thinking about yourself."

• (Gabriel Damon) "Never fear, Brooklyn is here."

• (Gabriel Damon) "Your honor, I object."
• (William Boyett) "On what grounds?"
• (Gabriel Damon) "On the grounds of Brooklyn, your honor."

• (Gabriel Damon) "I've been hearing things from little birds. Things from Harlem, Queens, all over. They been chirpin' in my ear. Saying Jacky-boy's Newsies is playing like they're going on strike."
• (Christian Bale) "Yeah, well we are."
• (David Moscow) "But we're not playing. We are going on strike."
• (Gabriel Damon) "Oh yeah? Yeah? What is this, Jacky-boy? Some kind of walking mouth?"
• (Christian Bale) "Yeah, it's a mouth. A mouth with a brain, and if you got half a one, you'll listen to what he's got to say."
• (David Moscow) "Well, we started the strike, but we can't do it alone. So, we're talking to Newsies all around the city."
• (Gabriel Damon) "Yeah, so they told me. But what'd they tell you?"
• (David Moscow) "They're waiting to see what Spot Conlon is doing, you're the key. That Spot Conlon is the most respected and famous Newsie in all of New York, and probably everywhere else. And if Spot Conlon joins the strike then they join, and we'll be unstoppable. So you gotta join, I mean -- well, you gotta."
• (Gabriel Damon) "You're right Jacky-boy, brains. But I got brains too, and more than just half a one. How do I know you punks won't run the first time some goon comes at ya with a club? How do I know you got what it takes to win?"
• (Christian Bale) "Because I'm telling you, Spot."
• (Gabriel Damon) "That ain't good enough Jacky-boy. You gotta show me."

• (Gabriel Damon) "It ain't what they say, its what we say, and nobody ain't gonna listen to us unless we make 'em."

Michael A. Goorjian as Skittery

• (Michael A. Goorjian) "This'll bust me, I'm barely makin' a livin' right now."

Marc Lawrence as Kloppman

• (Marc Lawrence) "Skittery. Skittery. Skittery."
• (Michael A. Goorjian) "I didn't do it."
• (Marc Lawrence) "What do you mean you didn't do it? Get up. Get up. When you get up, you have to get up."

• (Marc Lawrence) "Jack Kelly? Nope never heard of him. Boys?"
• (Specs) "That's an unusual name for these parts."

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