The Pawnbroker (film) Quotes

The Pawnbroker (film) is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Pawnbroker ended its run in 1970.

It features Philip Langner as producer, Quincy Jones in charge of musical score, and Boris Kaufman as head of cinematography.

The Pawnbroker (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Pawnbroker (film) is 116 minutes long. The Pawnbroker (film) is distributed by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

The cast includes: Jaime Sánchez as Jesus Ortiz, Rod Steiger as Sol Nazerman, and Geraldine Fitzgerald as Marilyn Birchfield.

The Pawnbroker (film) Quotes

Jaime Sánchez as Jesus Ortiz

• (Jaime Sánchez) "That's all life is about?"
• (Rod Steiger) "That's all life is about."
• (Jaime Sánchez) "You mean -- money is the whole thing?"
• (Rod Steiger) "Money is the whole thing."

• (Jaime Sánchez) "You want to tell me something, Mr. Nazerman? What is that? That -- is that a secret society or something?"
• (Rod Steiger) "Yeah."
• (Jaime Sánchez) "Well -- what do I do to join?"
• (Rod Steiger) "What do you do to join? You learn to walk on water."

• (Jaime Sánchez) "Say, how come you people come to business so naturally?"
• (Rod Steiger) "You people? Oh, let's see. Yeah. I see. I see, you -- you want to learn the secret of our success, is that right? Alright I'll teach you. First of all you start off with a period of several thousand years, during which you have nothing to sustain you but a great bearded legend. Oh my friend you have no land to call your own, to grow food on or to hunt. You have nothing. You're never in one place long enough to have a geography or an army or a land myth. All you have is a little brain. A little brain and a great bearded legend to sustain you and convince you that you are special, even in poverty. But this little brain, that's the real key you see. With this little brain you go out and you buy a piece of cloth and you cut that cloth in two and you go and sell it for a penny more than you paid for it. Then you run right out and buy another piece of cloth, cut it into three pieces and sell it for three pennies profit. But, my friend, during that time you must never succumb to buying an extra piece of bread for the table or a toy for a child, no. You must immediately run out and get yourself a still larger piece cloth and so you repeat this process over and over and suddenly you discover something. You have no longer any desire, any temptation to dig into the Earth to grow food or to gaze at a limitless land and call it your own, no, no. You just go on and on and on repeating this process over the centuries over and over and suddenly you make a grand discovery. You have a mercantile heritage. You are a merchant. You are known as a usurer, a man with secret resources, a witch, a pawnbroker, a sheenie, a makie and a kike."
• (Jaime Sánchez) "You really some teacher, Mr. Nazerman. You really, really 's the greatest."

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Marilyn Birchfield

• (Geraldine Fitzgerald) "What makes you so bitter?"
• (Rod Steiger) "Bitter?"
• (Rod Steiger) "No, no, Miss Birchfield, I am not bitter. No, that passed me by a million years ago. I'm a man of no anger. I have no desire for vengeance for what was done to me. I have escaped from the emotions. I am safe within myself. All I ask and want is peace and quiet."
• (Geraldine Fitzgerald) "Why haven't you found them?"
• (Rod Steiger) "Because people like you will not let me. Miss Birchfield, you have made the afternoon very tedious with your constant search for an answer. And one more thing: please, stay out of my life."

Rod Steiger as Sol Nazerman

• (Rod Steiger) "I do not believe in God, or art, or science, or newspapers, or politics, or philosophy."
• (Jaime Sánchez) "Then, Mr. Teacher, ain't there nothing you do believe in?"
• (Rod Steiger) "Money."

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