Circus World (1964)

Lloyd Nolan: Cap Carson

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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.

• Cap Carson : Lili's gone. Forget her. When she ran out that night it was over. Like that puff of wind. It's gone! Matt, Let it stay that way.

• Cap Carson : We did all right today, 81 kids, 77 grown-ups, 6 dead heads. Total: 259 pesetas, That's 43 dollars American.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?