Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

Elisha Cook Jr.: Eddie Forbes

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Quotes 

• Eddie Forbes : You smell like a cooch dancer!

• Jed Towers : [to elevator operator]  You're lucky to have such a steady job.

  Eddie Forbes : Oh - it has its ups and downs - most people laugh at that one, sir.

• Nell Forbes : You look so different in those clothes.

  Eddie Forbes : I'm different all the time.

• Eddie Forbes : You been here as long as I have, you take an interest in things outside the elevator. Would you like lipstick tissue? Sometimes they forget to leave them in the rooms.

  Ruth Jones : Well, thank you.

  Eddie Forbes : That's a $5 idea! They just got hold of it last week.

• Eddie Forbes : I just got the wind knocked out of me.

  Jed Towers : You're wrong, boy. You almost got the brains bashed out of you.

• Nell Forbes : You could have stuff like this, Nell. Kimonos, and rings, and toilet water with Italian names. A handsome girl like you.

  Eddie Forbes : No, I can't! I can't!

• Eddie Forbes : Please, don't get into any more mischief.

• Eddie Forbes : Why are you so restless? You're ticking like a clock!

• Eddie Forbes : I've been an elevator jockey for 14 years. Ain't that enough to get out of life without any more trouble?