Easter Parade (1948)

Clinton Sundberg: Mike the Bartender

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Quotes 

• [the bartender hands Don his drink] 

  Don Hewes : Can you drown a brunette in this?

  Mike the Bartender : How tall is she?

  Don Hewes : Five foot six.

  Mike the Bartender : [filling the glass a little more]  Try this.

• Mike the Bartender : Spend your life behind a bar, you get to know what makes people tick. This place is like a clinic. People come in here because they've got troubles. Well, if you listen, you learn. I've been here 15 years and I can boil down trouble into two classifications.

  Don Hewes : Yeah? What are they?

  Mike the Bartender : Women and their mothers.

• Mike the Bartender : What are you doing here by yourself?

  Hannah Brown : Oh, I don't know. I just wanted to get away for awhile.

  Mike the Bartender : Sure. Well, if there's anything I can do, breaking one's neck or anything like that, just say the word.

  Hannah Brown : No thanks, Mike. There isn't anything anyone can do.

  Mike the Bartender : Ah, don't say that. No man is that important. Plenty of fish left in the sea. You know it's always darkest just...

  Hannah Brown : Oh, Mike. I don't think you have a motto for my kind of problem.