The Lost Weekend (film) Quotes

The Lost Weekend (film) is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Lost Weekend ended in 1970.

It features Charles Brackett as producer, Miklós Rózsa in charge of musical score, and John F. Seitz as head of cinematography.

The Lost Weekend (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Lost Weekend (film) is 99 minutes long. The Lost Weekend (film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Ray Milland as Don Birnam, Doris Dowling as Gloria, Howard Da Silva as Nat, Jane Wyman as Helen St. James, Phillip Terry as Wick Birnem, Lewis Russell as Mr. St. James, and Mary Young as Mrs. Deveridge.

The Lost Weekend (film) Quotes

Doris Dowling as Gloria

• (Doris Dowling) "Save your saliva. I've had enough of you."

• (Doris Dowling) "Lovely gentleman. He buy's me dimple scotch."
• (Ray Milland) "He should buy you Indian rubies and villa in Calcutta overlookin' the Ganges"
• (Doris Dowling) "Don't be ridic'."
• (Ray Milland) "Gloria, please. Why imperil our friendship with these loathsome abbreviations?"

• (Doris Dowling) "You're awfully pretty, Mr. Birnam."
• (Ray Milland) "I bet you tell that to all the boys."
• (Doris Dowling) "Why, natch'. Only, with you, it's on the level."

• (Doris Dowling) "You do like me a little, don't ya, honey?"
• (Ray Milland) "Why, natsch' Gloria, natsch'."

• (Man from Albany) "Could I have a word with you?"
• (Doris Dowling) "No, thanks. Thanks a lot, but, no thanks."
• (Man from Albany) "Oh, you're welcome, I'm sure."
• (Doris Dowling) "Don't mentsch'."

Lewis Russell as Mr. St. James

• (Lewis Russell) "Oh, that wasn't enough, not for New York. They gave me a shampoo, scalp massage, and a manicure. I thought they were going to tear off my shoes and paint my toenails."

Ray Milland as Don Birnam

• ('Bim' Nolan, Male Nurse) "Where do you live?"
• (Ray Milland) "209 East Fif- What do you need that for?"
• ('Bim' Nolan, Male Nurse) "For the postcard."
• (Ray Milland) "What postcard?"
• ('Bim' Nolan, Male Nurse) "To your folks. So they'll know where honey boy is and can pick him up when he's feeling better."

• (Ray Milland) "Another drink, another binge, another bender, another spree."

• (Ray Milland) "Who likes Brahms? You or I?"
• (Phillip Terry) "Since when don't you like Brahms?"

• (Ray Milland) "Why'd they put me in the alcoholic ward?"
• ('Bim' Nolan, Male Nurse) "Are you kiddin'? We had a peak of your blood. Straight apple jack. 96 proof."

• (Ray Milland) "There's now being presented at a theater on 44th Street the uncut version of Hamlet. Now, I see us as setting out for that. Do you know Hamlet?"
• (Doris Dowling) "I know 44th Street."
• (Ray Milland) "I'd like to get your interpretation of Hamlet's character."
• (Doris Dowling) "I'd like to give it you."

• (Ray Milland) "Would you like a taxi?"
• (Jane Wyman) "No, thanks. I'm taking the subway."
• (Ray Milland) "Oh, very sensible."
• (Jane Wyman) "As a matter of fact, I'm going to an extremely crazy party on Washington; Square."

• (Ray Milland) "It's too late. I wouldn't know how to start."
• (Jane Wyman) "The only way to start is to stop."

• (Ray Milland) "Don's a little tight. Most people drink a little. A lot of them get tight once in awhile."
• (Ray Milland) "Sure, the lucky ones who can take it or leave it. But, then there are ones who can't take it and can't leave it either. What I'm trying to say is: I'm not a drinker; I'm a drunk."

• (Ray Milland) "Let me have one, Nat. I'm dying. Just one."

• (Ray Milland) "It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yeah. But what it does it do to the mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent. Extremely competent. I'm walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones. I'm Michaelangelo, molding the beard of Moses. I'm Van Gogh painting pure sunlight. I'm Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto. I'm John Barrymore before the movies got him by the throat. I'm Jesse James and his two brothers, all three of them. I'm W. Shakespeare. And out there it's not Third Avenue any longer, it's the Nile, Nat. The Nile and down into the barge of Cleopatra."

• (Ray Milland) "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation."

• (Ray Milland) "What are they playing?"
• (Jane Wyman) "Brahms second symphony, something by Beethoven, something by Handel and not one note of Grieg."

• (Ray Milland) "Is our engagement definite?"
• (Doris Dowling) "You meant it, didn't you?"
• (Ray Milland) "Oh, surely, surely."
• (Doris Dowling) "Well, I've got to get a facial and a finger wave, the works. Right now."

• (Ray Milland) "Now, Gloria, wasn't it rather rude to send that nice man all alone to Grant's tomb?"
• (Doris Dowling) "When I've got a chance to go out with you? Don't be ridic'."

• (Ray Milland) "Out there in that great big concrete jungle, I wonder how many others there 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."

• (Ray Milland) "Well, how do you like New York?"
• (Jane Wyman) "Love it."
• (Ray Milland) "Intend to stay long?"
• (Jane Wyman) "Oh, sixty years, perhaps."

• (Ray Milland) "Do you ever lie in your bed looking at the window? A little daylight's coming through and you start to wonder. Is it getting lighter? Is it getting darker? Is it dawn or is it dusk? That's a terrifying problem, Nat. Because, if its dawn, you're dead. The bars are closed. The liquor stores aren't open until nine o'clock and you can't last until nine o'clock. Or, it may be Sunday. That's the worst. No liquor stores at all and you guys wouldn't open a bar until one o'clock. Why? Why, Nat?"
• (Howard Da Silva) "Because we got to go to church once in awhile, that's why."
• (Ray Milland) "Yeah. When a guy needs it most."

• (Ray Milland) "Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. It's so simple. You've gotta catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house, the ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's Pastorale, a letter scribbled on her office stationary that you carry around in your pocket because it smells like all the lilacs in Ohio. Pour it, Nat."

• (Ray Milland) "You know, in college I passed for a genius. They couldn't get out the college magazine without one of my stories. Boy, was I hot. Hemingway stuff. I reached my peak when I was 19. Sold a piece to the Atlantic Monthly, reprinted in the Readers Digest. Who wants to stay in college when he's Hemingway? My mother bought me a brand new typewriter and I moved right in on New York. Well, the first thing I wrote, that didn't quite come off. And the second I dropped, the public wasn't ready for that one. I started a third and a fourth. Only, by then, somebody began to look over my shoulder and whisper, in a thin, clear voice, like the E-string on a violin, "Don Birnam," he whispered, "is not good enough. Not that way. How about a couple of drinks to set him on his feet, huh?" So, I had a couple. Oh, what a great idea that was. That made all the difference. Suddenly, I could see the whole thing. The tragic sweep of the great novel, beautifully proportioned. But, before I could really grab it and throw it down on paper, the drinks would wear off and everything would be gone, like a mirage. Then, there was despair and the drink to counterbalance despair and then one to counterbalance the counterbalance."

• (Ray Milland) "I'm not a minor, Mr. Brophy, and just to ease your conscience, I'm buying these to refill my cigarette lighter."

• (Ray Milland) "I've never done anything. I'm not doing anything. I never will do anything. Zero. Zero. Zero."

• (Ray Milland) "Are you in the phone book?"
• (Jane Wyman) "Yes, but I'm not home very much."
• (Ray Milland) "Well, I'll call you at your office."
• (Jane Wyman) "Editorial Research. If Henry Luce answers, hang up."

• (Ray Milland) "If that's going to be your attitude Nat, I shall have to drown my sorrows with a jigger of rye. Just one, that's all."
• (Howard Da Silva) "Can't be done, Mr Birnam."
• (Ray Milland) "Can't? Now, let me guess why. My brother was here undermining my financial structure."
• (Howard Da Silva) "I didn't tell him nothin' about the wristwatch you left or your cufflinks."
• (Ray Milland) "Thank you very much, Nat. Today you'll be glad to know we can barter on a cash basis."
• (Howard Da Silva) "One straight rye."
• (Ray Milland) "That was the idea."

• (Ray Milland) "I can't let her see me, not when I'm off like this."
• (Howard Da Silva) "Why don't you cut it short?"
• (Ray Milland) "Don't talk like a child. You can't cut it short. You're on that merry-go-round, you got to ride it all the way. Round and round till that blasted music wears itself out and the thing dies down."

• (Ray Milland) "One should always see Shakespeare on an empty stomach."
• (Doris Dowling) "Not even a pretzel?"

• (Ray Milland) "Helen's heard the facts. That's all there is to it."
• (Jane Wyman) "Yes, I've heard them and they're not too pleasant. But, they could be worse. After all, you're not an embezzler or a murderer. You drink too much. And that's not fatal."

Howard Da Silva as Nat

• (Howard Da Silva) "Ain't it amazin' how many guys come down from Albany just to see Grant's tomb?"

• (Howard Da Silva) "One's too many an' a hundred's not enough."

• (Howard Da Silva) "How the heck did she ever get mixed up with a guy who sops it up like you do?"
• (Ray Milland) "That's a problem, isn't it. That nice young man who drinks and a high class young lady and how did she ever get mixed up with him? And why does he drink? And why doesn't he stop? That's my novel, Nat. I wanted to start writing it out in the country. Morbid stuff. Nothing for the book-of-the-month club. A horror story. The confessions of a booze addict. The log book of an alcoholic. Oh, come on, Nat, break down, will ya?"
• (Ray Milland) "You know what I'm going to call my novel? The Bottle. That's all. Very simply, The Bottle. I've got all here in my mind."

Jane Wyman as Helen St. James

• (Jane Wyman) "Give me the pawn ticket."
• (Ray Milland) "Look, I don't want you to go in there and claim it now. It would look queer."

• (Jane Wyman) "I'd rather have you drunk than dead."

• (Jane Wyman) "We're both trying, Don. You're trying not to drink, and I'm trying not to love you."

• (Jane Wyman) "There must be a reason why you drink, Don? The right doctor could find it."
• (Ray Milland) "Look, I'm way ahead of the right doctor. I know the reason. The reason is me; what I am. Or, rather, what I'm not. What I wanted to become and didn't."
• (Jane Wyman) "What is it you want to be so much that you're not?"
• (Ray Milland) "A writer. Silly, isn't it."

• (Jane Wyman) "I live here now. I have a job."
• (Ray Milland) "Doing what?"
• (Jane Wyman) "Time Magazine."
• (Ray Milland) "Oh, Time Magazine. Perhaps you can do something for me?"
• (Jane Wyman) "Yes?"
• (Ray Milland) "Could you help me become Man-of-the-Year?"

Phillip Terry as Wick Birnem

• (Phillip Terry) "You better take this along, Don. It's gonna be cold on the farm."
• (Ray Milland) "Okay."
• (Phillip Terry) "How many shirts are you taking?"
• (Ray Milland) "Three."
• (Phillip Terry) "I'm taking five."
• (Ray Milland) "Five?"
• (Phillip Terry) "Yeah, I told them at the office I might not be back until Tuesday. We'll get there this afternoon. That'll give us all Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. We'll make it a long, wonderful weekend."
• (Ray Milland) "It sounds long all right."

• (Phillip Terry) "If it happens, it happens and I hope it does. I've had six years of this. I've had my bellyfull -- Who are we fooling? We've tried everything, haven't we? We've reasoned with him. We've baited him. We've watched him like a hawk. We've tried trusting him. How often have you cried? How often have I beaten him up? Scrape him out of a gutter and pump some kind of self-respect into him and back he falls, back in every time."
• (Jane Wyman) "He's a sick person. It's as though there was something wrong with his heart or his lungs. You wouldn't walk out on him if he had an attack. He needs our help."
• (Phillip Terry) "He won't accept our help. Not Don, he hates us. He wants to be alone with that bottle of his. It's all he gives a hang about. Why kid ourselves? He's a hopeless alcoholic."

• (Phillip Terry) "Trees and grass and sweet cider, buttermilk and water from that well that's colder than any old --"
• (Ray Milland) "Wait, please. Why this emphasis on liquids? Very dull liquids."

Mary Young as Mrs. Deveridge

• (Mary Young) "He's off on another toot. And you know I'm darned right."

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