Circus World (1964)

John Wayne: Matt Masters

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• [first lines] 

  Cap Carson : Matt, let the ghost be. It's fourteen years. It's time you buried the dead.

  Matt Masters : They're buried, Cap.

  Cap Carson : But you wanna walk over their grave once in a while just to make sure.

• Matt Masters : Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Vienna, Budapest. They got a nice sound.

• Mrs. Schuman : Listen, Emile has been doing his act for three seasons now. Every season they ask for more lions to be sitting on him, I mean *lying* down on him. Emile is getting very tired of lions.

  Matt Masters : I can't say that I blame him. But I have something else in mind.

  Mrs. Schuman : What?

  Matt Masters : Tigers.

• Matt Masters : Why don't you get drunk!

• Flo Hunt : Hello, Mr. Masters. You don't remember me, I bet.

  Matt Masters : Flo Hunt, tumbling act!

  Flo Hunt : That's me! Broke me back. No more cartwheels. Got married. Four kids. Easier work.

• Matt Masters : All right. You killed him, or I did, or maybe it was something neither of us could help - or anybody. Because, as God knows we didn't just wake up one morning and say: Today we're gonna fall in love .

• Matt Masters : How long are you gonna flop around in cheap joints hawking your soul?

• Mrs. Schuman : Don't worry. I know how to handle him. I will let you know. My husband will always do the right thing in the end.

  Matt Masters : Well, thanks. A man is lucky to have a smart woman to guide him.

• Matt Masters : Make up your mind - or you're forever dead.

• Lili Alfredo : What would you do?

  Matt Masters : I'd wash my face. I'd comb my hair dnd make myself decent enough to go up to that little girl and say: I'm your mother.

• Cap Carson : It's a big difference - lions to tigers.

  Matt Masters : Wives don't notice such things,

• Cap Carson : Toni told me - you bawled her out this morning.

  Matt Masters : Yes, I did.

• Matt Masters : You encouraged her. I saw it. Grabbing her and twirling and twirling her around.

  Steve McCabe : Matt, that's called dancing.

  Matt Masters : Well, I call it - dirty handling.

• Toni Alfredo : Funny, when I came in I wanted to kill you.

  Matt Masters : I'm glad you changed your mind.

• Matt Masters : It's time you learned some facts, you know, facts about...

  Toni Alfredo : Go on, I'm listening.

  Matt Masters : Sometimes, with two people, well things can get out of hand sometimes, and it's the woman that has be strong. A man, well, a man's generally no better than he has to be.

• Toni Alfredo : I'm going to grow up. And you're not going to stop me.

  Matt Masters : I can't stop you. You aren't a kid any more.

  Toni Alfredo : Then what am I? Say it. Just let me hear you say it once. Just once.

  Matt Masters : You're a woman, Toni. I got eyes. I can see. You're beautiful - young woman.

• Matt Masters : Well, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you won't get hurt, but - I just don't want you to do your first dive without a net, that's all.

• Matt Masters : Dance to it, Lili. Dance!

• Cap Carson : You're putting on a circus.

  Matt Masters : Am I?

  Cap Carson : Well, it's my opinion.

  Matt Masters : In a circus you have to have artists flying through the air, like musical notes. Somebody makin' a tune with 'em. Somebody with a calliope inside.

  Cap Carson : Calliope? Well, you got steam coming out of your ears.

• Matt Masters : I spanked her when she was bad, loved her when she was good.

• Cap Carson : Leave 'em alone!

  Matt Masters : Leave 'em alone? It's dark out there!

  Cap Carson : Well, kids like the dark. Weren't you ever young?

• Matt Masters : Toni, grow up! Be a woman. Bellyachin' will do you no good.