Bedtime Story (1964)

Marlon Brando: Freddy Benson

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Quotes 

• Freddy Benson : You ever take a women for 20 bucks?

  Lawrence Jameson : No, I'm afraid that's a little out of my class.

  Freddy Benson : No it isn't. Think big. You got possibilities. You're not a bad lookin' fella.

  Lawrence Jameson : Oh, thank you.

• Freddy Benson : She caught me with another woman. You're French, you understand.

  Andre : To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.

• Freddy Benson : I could show you the ropes. We'd make a great team. I'll take the young ones, you get the old ones.

  Lawrence Jameson : The old ones for me?

  Freddy Benson : Yeah, they're the ones you can take for the real loot.

  Lawrence Jameson : For more than 20 dollars?

  Freddy Benson : A guy like you could knock off 50, a hundred bucks a night.

  Lawrence Jameson : Isn't there a name for men who get money from women?

  Freddy Benson : Un huh... smart. I know ya don't need the money, but live a little, have some gigs.

• Andre : Monsieur Jameson, why do you wish to become involved with a depraved man like this?

  Lawrence Jameson : Because I don't think he's really depraved. I think he's just emotionally disturbed.

  Freddy Benson : That's it.

  Lawrence Jameson : His warped attitude toward the female sex probably stems from some experience during infancy that left him hostile toward women.

  Andre : Like what?

  Lawrence Jameson : Oh, who knows? Maybe the poor man has been the victim of improper potty training.

  Freddy Benson : That's me, dad. That's what did it.

• Freddy Benson : That poor dame's got me for a husband.

  Lawrence Jameson : Don't feel so sorry for her. Women marry men to reform them. That's what makes them happy. And with a rat like you, she faces a lifetime of ecstasy.

• Freddy Benson : Oh, dad, I see you've got a lot to learn about women. Let me tell you somethin'. The more you lie to them, the more you take 'em, the rougher you treat 'em, the better they like ya.

  Lawrence Jameson : Is that a fact?

  Freddy Benson : I could tell ya things about women that'd curl your hair.

  Lawrence Jameson : I'm afraid I'm a bit naïve when it comes to the weaker sex.

  Freddy Benson : The weaker sex? Oh, dad, let me put some new colors in your paint box. They're about as weak as the engine that's pulling this train. Remember this. It takes six men to carry a guy to his grave. It takes one woman to put him there.

• Freddy Benson : Listen! We're the weaker sex, not women. We're perishable like ripe peaches hanging on a tree.

• Freddy Benson : I'm gonna tell you somethin' that never entered your mind. This world is full of rich widows.

• Freddy Benson : I say it's time for a change. Let's live off them awhile. Let them give us the money. Now, that probably shocks a guy like you, don't it?

  Lawrence Jameson : It's rather a revolutionary thought. But how do we go about affecting this change?

  Freddy Benson : [Chuckles]  Ah, dad, you're so brainwashed it's pathetic.

• Andre : Come now, monsieur - our town's leading citizen. How would he know a low-down mongrel like you?

  Freddy Benson : We're pals. He'll remember me. Just tell him it's Freddy, the mongrel from the train.

• Fanny Eubank : You're on a special mission for his highness, aren't you?

  Freddy Benson : What?

  Fanny Eubank : I saw the prince shake your hand and pat you on the back.

  Freddy Benson : The prince?

  Fanny Eubank : You don't have to cover up with me. I'm not a security risk. I too have served his highness. In fact, it's probably my money that's financing your mission.

  Freddy Benson : [Things begin to click]  You are, uh?

  Fanny Eubank : Fanny Eubank, or, as the prince calls me, Fanny of Omaha

  [she chuckles] 

  Fanny Eubank : .

  Freddy Benson : Oh, yes. He speaks of you with great affection. To his highness

  [they click their glasses and drink] 

  Freddy Benson : .

  Fanny Eubank : To the people of his enslaved country

  [They click their glasses and drink] 

  Fanny Eubank : . To your mission

  [They click glases again, and drink] 

  Fanny Eubank : . Do you think it will succeed?

  Freddy Benson : It's looking better every minute.

• Freddy Benson : Master! O giver of knowledge. I've come to sit at your feet and learn. Teach me. Mold me. Polish me. I'm in your hands.

  Lawrence Jameson : I wouldn't soil them on you.

  Freddy Benson : Well, now, is that any way to talk to your partner?

  Lawrence Jameson : By no stretch of the imagination will I associate myself with someone like you. You're crude.

  Freddy Benson : Well, so is oil until you refine it into high octane gasoline. Up my octane, big daddy.

• Lawrence Jameson : You do have a sort of brutish appeal to women. You're certainly unprincipled. Lying and cheating come naturally to you. You're completely without moral qualms.

  Freddy Benson : There, you see. Everybody's got a good side if you look for it.

• Freddy Benson : You cut the cake. All I ask for is a few crumbs.

• Freddy Benson : Look, daddy... you wanna play 'Robin Hood,' okay. But don't shoot my arrows. There's one thing the archaeologists aren't gonna dig up and that's Freddy's money, 'cause I'm spending it right now. So, hand it over, tax-free.

• Lawrence Jameson : Are you challenging me? Are you proposing to pitch your crude animal instincts against intelligence, culture, and breeding?

  Freddy Benson : If that means, am I kicking your prat off this hill, yeah.

• Janet Walker : Freddy, it's good therapy to talk about her. What was she like. Where did you meet here?

  Freddy Benson : In Sunday school. I guess that's why I trusted her so much. I never thought that a Sunday school teacher could do what she did. Especially to another Sunday school teacher.

  Janet Walker : You taught Sunday school?

  Freddy Benson : Oh, yeah. I love children. When I think of all the tiny little feet that I've guided along the right path. Now I can't even guide my own.