Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) Quotes

Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Pennies from Heaven completed its run in 1970.

It features Rick McCallum, Herbert Ross, and Nora Kaye as producer, Ralph Burns; Con Conrad; Marvin Hamlisch; Billy May in charge of musical score, and Gordon Willis as head of cinematography.

Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) is 108 minutes long. Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Jessica Harper as Joan Parker, Steve Martin as Arthur Parker, Raleigh Bond as Mr. Barrett, Bernadette Peters as Eileen, Will Hare as Father Everson, John Karlen as The Detective, John McMartin as Mr. Warner, Christopher Walken as Tom, and John McMartin as Warden.

Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) Quotes

Steve Martin as Arthur Parker

• (Steve Martin) "Jesus Christ, Eileen, you're beginning to sound like my wife."
• (Bernadette Peters) "I'm not surprised, poor woman."
• (Steve Martin) "What is it about women? Do your mothers teach it to you or what?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "I hardly ever knew my mother, poor soul. She worked her fingers to the bone, and for what? Life with a stove and a washtub and; oh, what's the use? She was dead at 45."

• (Steve Martin) "Honey, I'm a good salesman. I can pick the right songs. Jesus Christ almighty."
• (Jessica Harper) "Don't blaspheme, Arthur."
• (Steve Martin) "Corn to the left of ya, corn to the right; and the storekeepers are dumb and windy as my old granny's asshole."
• (Jessica Harper) "Arthur."
• (Steve Martin) "Well, your hick storekeeper cusses a lot, believe me."
• (Jessica Harper) "My daddy didn't. Not ever."

• (Steve Martin) "In a band, this man and woman singer, they --"
• (Bernadette Peters) "Arthur, what has this got to do with being married?"
• (Steve Martin) "Just a minute. A minute. At the hotel where they were playing, see, they gave the elevator operator a $20 bill to stop the elevator between floors and turn his back."
• (Bernadette Peters) "Do people do things like that?"
• (Steve Martin) "Like what, Eileen?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "Make love in an elevator."
• (Steve Martin) "You mean, like kissing, do you?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "Oh, is that all?"
• (Steve Martin) "Oh, Eileen. Eileen. That's a good girl. You knew what I was talking about. Would you ever do that? What they did?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "Between which floors, Arthur?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "If it's naughty to rouge your lips, Shake your shoulders and shake your hips, Let a lady confess, I want to be bad."

• (Steve Martin) "I want you. I want you now."
• (Bernadette Peters) "What, here?"
• (Steve Martin) "It's the only way I can keep going. Besides, we ain't never done it in a car, have we?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "We must be crazy."

• (Steve Martin) "My wife says --"
• (Bernadette Peters) "Arthur --"
• (Steve Martin) "God rest her soul."

• (Steve Martin) "Always the same."
• (Bernadette Peters) "What is?"
• (Steve Martin) "Come out of the movies, the god**** world has changed. god**** rain."
• (Bernadette Peters) "Forget it. We'll be "Singin' In the rain, Just singing' in the rain.""
• (Newsboy) "Extra. Extra. Read all about it. Chicago song salesman hunted in blind-girl murder. Chicago song salesman hunted in blind-girl murder. Song salesman hunted in blind-girl murder."

• (Steve Martin) "You don't give me a chance. You gotta give me a chance."
• (Jessica Harper) "I don't know what you mean, Arthur."
• (Steve Martin) "If I should wake and find your arms around me, I know I'll never have to dream again, If I should wake and feel your lips surrender to mine --"

• (A Prostitute) "Hi, sweetie. Want a nice time, honey?"
• (Steve Martin) "No, I like feeling miserable."
• (A Prostitute) "Just around the corner, honey. Show you a real good time."

• (Steve Martin) "So ga-ga, We're gonna go ga-ga, My baby loves ga-ga, She told me so. Yes, yes. My baby said yes, yes, I'm glad she said yes, yes, Instead of no, no."

• (Steve Martin) "Don't you ever listen to the words; in the songs? In these songs?"
• (Jessica Harper) "That's not real life."
• (Steve Martin) "Real life? You tell me what real life is. It's a bowl of dog biscuits."
• (Jessica Harper) "Well, there's nothing wrong with that, if you're a dog."
• (Steve Martin) "That's what you want. You want a god**** poodle. Not a man. Not a real man."

• (Steve Martin) "You're doing worse than me. Here. Here's a quarter. Go on, take it, Rockefeller. Feel rich."
• (The Accordion Man) "God bless you. Bless you."
• (Steve Martin) "Cut it out. What are you, a god**** pansy?"

• (Steve Martin) "I tell you, Eileen, salesmen got no god**** morals."

• (Steve Martin) "Did you; ? Did you like doing it; for money?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "It wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be."
• (Steve Martin) "My God, you're something. We're the same sort, you and me."

• (Steve Martin) "Did you ever see a dream dancing? Well, I did, Did you a ever see a dream romancing? Well, I did, Did you ever see heaven right in your arms --"

• (Steve Martin) "Good luck to you, buddy."
• (The Accordion Man) "So A long time ago, A million years BC, The best things in life, Were absolutely free, But no one appreciated, A sky that was always blue, And no one congratulated, A moon that was always new, So it was planned that they would vanish now and then, And you must pay before you get them back again, That's what storms were made for, And you shouldn't be afraid for, Every time it rains it rains, Pennies from heaven, Don't you know each cloud contains, Pennies from heaven --"

• (Steve Martin) "You was listening. All the time. Oh, jeepers, Joanie. What lovely, lovely little rosebuds."
• (Jessica Harper) "Are they; ? Are they as nice as hers?"

• (Steve Martin) "Your daddy used to sing in the church choir. He was more a Christian than a storekeeper. He might overcharge you, but he said his prayers. Honey, he would want you to use that money he left you."
• (Jessica Harper) "Money he worked hard for all his life to save for a rainy day?"
• (Steve Martin) "It's raining. Pouring."
• (Jessica Harper) "Oh, cheer up, Arthur. You won't sell anything without a smile."

• (Steve Martin) "That's the trouble with you guys. You walk around with dirt and ash in your eyeballs. You just can't begin to see what a fantastic world it is we live in. Come on, get your god**** chins up off the floor. It's beautiful. It is. Shining. The whole place is shining. Can't you see it? Don't you feel it?"

• (Steve Martin) "God, why is it so; ? Why can't the world; ?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "Because that's the way it is."
• (Steve Martin) "But I want to live in a world where the songs come true. There must be someplace where them songs are for real."
• (Bernadette Peters) ""Happy Days Are Here Again." Is that it, Arthur?"

• (Steve Martin) "I'm empty, Joan. Nothin' inside me. Nothin' at all."
• (Jessica Harper) "Oh, what, is there not even a song? Not a teeny-weeny little tune?"
• (Steve Martin) "I keep them songs in my bag, not in my heart."
• (Jessica Harper) "And in your head."

• (Steve Martin) "Joan -- Joanie? Sugar? C'mon, Joan -- sugar -- wake up, baby."
• (Jessica Harper) "No, Arthur, don't."
• (Steve Martin) "Oh, baby -- come on, sugar."
• (Jessica Harper) "No, it's too early, Arthur."
• (Steve Martin) "Oh, Joan."
• (Jessica Harper) "Arthur, there isn't time."
• (Steve Martin) "Oh, there's always time for this. Joan, come on."
• (Jessica Harper) "Stop it, Arthur. No, don't."
• (Jessica Harper) "No -- I said no."
• (Steve Martin) "Why not? Why not, Joan?"
• (Jessica Harper) "You said you wanted to get away early; that's what you said."
• (Steve Martin) "You never want to, do you? Never."

• (Steve Martin) "Dance. Let's face the music and dance."

• (Steve Martin) "As long as there's the two of us, We've got the world and all it's charms --"
• (Bernadette Peters) "When the world is through with us, We've got each others arms."

• (Steve Martin) "It was salesmanship that made this country great and it will be salesmanship that'll keep us great."

John Karlen as The Detective

• (John Karlen) "He was like that?"
• (Jessica Harper) "How do you mean?"
• (John Karlen) "I mean, was he disturbed in any way about anything? Was he odd, restless, nuts?"

• (The Banker) "Did you get your hand up her skirt, Arthur?"
• (John Karlen) "You lay her in the back seat?"
• (The Banker) "Has she got big tits?"

• (John Karlen) "Was he acting strange in any way?"
• (Jessica Harper) "He made me; wear lipstick."
• (John Karlen) "So?"
• (Jessica Harper) "No. On the; On the; points of my bosom."
• (John Karlen) "Oh, well. Well, well that's --"
• (Jessica Harper) "And; he asked me if I would --"
• (John Karlen) "No, no, no, Mrs. Parker. Please, please go on."
• (Jessica Harper) "If I would stop wearing a certain; garment; a certain; item of underwear."
• (John Karlen) "Was this an upper; or the lower garment?"
• (Jessica Harper) "The lower."

Bernadette Peters as Eileen

• (Bernadette Peters) "How much is a glass of lemonade?"
• (The Bartender) "It's been so long since I sold one. I don't know. For you, two cents?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "Yes. I'll have a glass of lemonade, please."
• (The Bartender) "Are you sure you came to the right place, sweetie?"
• (Christopher Walken) "Have a drop of gin in that, honey."
• (Bernadette Peters) "Pardon?"
• (Christopher Walken) "That's a very nice drink for a lady, gin and lemonade."

• (Bernadette Peters) "I don't even know who you are."
• (Steve Martin) "Arthur. I'm Arthur; and I love you."

• (The Bartender) "The one's on the house, honey. Just drink it down and go home, like a good little girl."
• (Bernadette Peters) "It taste like poison."
• (The Bartender) "Then, don't have another. Some girls it doesn't suit."
• (Christopher Walken) "You never know what you like till you try it."
• (Bernadette Peters) "That's true."

• (Bernadette Peters) "We only got one life, Arthur."

• (Bernadette Peters) "Dance tunes don't help, Arthur. What am I gonna do?"
• (Steve Martin) "Can't you go back home?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "No. I was already dead there. This way feels like dying, but I can see everything, feel everything. Do you understand?"

• (Bernadette Peters) "Arthur, what are you doing here?"
• (Steve Martin) "Whoever said you could stop a dream?"

• (Bernadette Peters) "No, I'm scared. Arthur. I never; I never; Arthur."
• (Steve Martin) "Oh, Eileen, take the pain away. Oh, please. Take the pain away, Eileen. Please. Please."
• (Bernadette Peters) "Oh, I'll try. I'll try. I'll try, Arthur. I'll try. Arthur. Oh. Oh. Poor Arthur. Poor --"

• (Bernadette Peters) "I wanted you, you see."
• (Steve Martin) "Did you?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "Oh, yes."
• (Steve Martin) "And you still do, don't you? You still do."
• (Bernadette Peters) "I still do."
• (Steve Martin) "I never in all my life. I've never heard a woman talk like that. Just like that."
• (Bernadette Peters) "It's not decent, is it?"
• (Steve Martin) "God, it's; it's marvelous."

• (Bernadette Peters) "What do you want to do to me?"

• (Bernadette Peters) "People are queer, they're always crowing, scrambling and rushing about --"
• (Jessica Harper) "Why don't they stop someday, address themselves this way? Why are we here? Where are we going? It's time that we found out, We're not here to stay; we're on a short holiday --"
• (Steve Martin) "Life is just a bowl of cherries, Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious --"
• (Jessica Harper) "You work, you save, you worry so, But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go --"
• (Steve Martin) "So keep repeating it's the berries --"
• (Jessica Harper) "The strongest oak must fall --"
• (Jessica Harper) "Must fall --"
• (Jessica Harper) "The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned --"
• (Bernadette Peters) "So tell me --"
• (Jessica Harper) "How can you lose what you've never owned? Life is just a bowl of cherries, So live and laugh at it all --"

• (Bernadette Peters) "Do you have any idea where we are?"
• (Steve Martin) "We're in the middle of nothing. Just where I always wanted to be."

• (Bernadette Peters) "Arthur, you'll never be satisfied. Not somebody like you."
• (Steve Martin) "Don't say that."
• (Bernadette Peters) "You're like the children in my class."
• (Steve Martin) "But you're still sweet on me, ain't you? You still want me. Huh, Eileen? Tell the truth."
• (Bernadette Peters) "Yes, I do."

• (Bernadette Peters) "Hello, Father."
• (Will Hare) "Come on, Eileen."

Jessica Harper as Joan Parker

• (Jessica Harper) "Oh, thank God you've come back."
• (Steve Martin) "You trying to be funny?"
• (Jessica Harper) "I thought you'd gone forever."
• (Steve Martin) "I have. I've gone. What do I get here in that bed of nails?"
• (Jessica Harper) "I'll try again, Arthur. I'll try harder. I've even; I've even put lipstick on."
• (Steve Martin) "What do you mean? You always put lipstick on."
• (Jessica Harper) "No, I mean, l; I put it on my --"
• (Steve Martin) "What, on your; ? What? On your nipples, Joanie? Have you?"
• (Jessica Harper) "You said you wanted me to."
• (Steve Martin) "How'd you know I was coming back tonight?"
• (Jessica Harper) "I've been putting it on every night, Arthur; hoping, praying that you'd come back to me."
• (Steve Martin) "Let me see. Show me, angel."

• (Jessica Harper) "I wouldn't go all that way without breakfast, Arthur. You must eat, sweetie."
• (Steve Martin) "I like feeling empty."

• (Jessica Harper) "What are you doing, Arthur?"
• (Steve Martin) "I was pretending."
• (Jessica Harper) "But what? And why?"
• (Steve Martin) "That I got my own dance band."

• (Jessica Harper) "Cut his thing off."
• (Jessica Harper) "I want them to cut his thing off and bury it."

Christopher Walken as Tom

• (Christopher Walken) "What's your name?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "Lulu."
• (Christopher Walken) "That's a very nice name."
• (Bernadette Peters) "I don't like it very much. It makes me sound cheap."
• (Christopher Walken) "Nah. Nobody would ever say that, Lulu. Hey, come here. Come here. Now, look at that big, fat whore over there. That's what I call cheap."
• (The Old Whore) "Who are you looking at?"

• (Christopher Walken) "What'd you come in this place for? Did you think some guy's gonna give you a fin just like that, for nothing?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "No."
• (Christopher Walken) "Nowadays? That's almost a week's pay for some girls."
• (Bernadette Peters) "Yes."
• (Christopher Walken) "I mean, you gotta give something back in return, don't you?"
• (Bernadette Peters) "Yes."

• (Christopher Walken) "We're all alone, No chaperon, Can get our number, The world's in slumber, Let's misbehave. There's something wild, About you, child, That's so contagious, Let's be outrageous, Let's misbehave."

John McMartin as Warden

• (John McMartin) "I am not, I hope, a blasphemous man, Eileen, but I often think the picture of Eve we are given in Genesis is not altogether a fair one. Indeed, when I look about and even into my own heart, I think it is much, much more likely it was Adam who offered the fruit to Eve."

• (John McMartin) "Arthur Parker, do you have anything to say?"
• (Steve Martin) "A long time ago, A million years BC, The best things in life, Was absolutely free, But no one appreciated, A sky that was always blue, No one congratulated, A moon that was always new, So it was planned that they would vanish now and then, And you must pay before you get them back again, That's what storms were made for, And you shouldn't be afraid; for"
• (Steve Martin) "Every time it rains it rains, Pennies from heaven, Don't you know each cloud contains, Pennies from heaven, You'll find your fortune falling, All over town, Be sure that your umbrella is upside down, Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers, If you want the things you love, You must have showers, So when you hear it thunder, Don't run under a tree, There'll be; pennies from heaven; for you and me"

Raleigh Bond as Mr. Barrett

• (Raleigh Bond) "You know what she needs, don't you?"
• (Steve Martin) "Just sign for what you have ordered. Don't talk about a lady like that."

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