Please Believe Me (1950)

James Whitmore: Vincent Maran

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• Vincent Maran : Kid, fortune hunting is just like any other business. You gotta work at it!

• Vincent Maran : Riley bankrolled you on the basis you was gonna marry a rich dame. So, what happens, we crossed the drink back and forth, forth and back and you haven't hit yet! I'm gettin' sick of the sea.

• Vincent Maran : Six thousand clams? You know, we were so busy figurin' out how to get your money away from you we never bothered to figure out if you had any.

• Alison Kirbe : Must be somewhere we can make some money quickly.

  Vincent Maran : You might as well save yourself some time. We gotta make a pile of dough in a hurry. And there's no honest way of doin' that.

• Vincent Maran : Any child could tell you. A con game is like a dipsy-do. And now you see it, now you don't. When you're workin' a con, you get people thinkin' of one thing, then you do another.

  Alison Kirbe : You do?

  Vincent Maran : I don't. I'm not pretty enough. You do!

  Alison Kirbe : I do what?

  Vincent Maran : And now you see it, now you don't.