A character in The Lost Weekend (1945)

Nat quotes from The Lost Weekend (1945)

Howard Da Silva

Tied for 4th most-quoted character in The Lost Weekend (1945): in 4 of its 37 quotes
Most scenes with: Don Birnam (4)

Scenes with Nat

4 scenes
Nat

Why don't you cut it short?

Don

I can't cut it short. I'm on that merry-go-round. You gotta ride it all the way. Round and round until that blasted music wears itself out and the thing dies down and comes to a stop...At night, the stuff's a drink. In the morning, it's medicine....It's a terrifying problem, Nat, because if it's dawn, you're dead. The bars are closed and the liquor stores don't open until nine o'clock and you can't last until nine o'clock. Or maybe Sunday, that's the worst. No liquor stores at all, and you guys wouldn't open a bar, not until one o'clock. Why? WHY, Nat?

A fella called me up about him. Wants me to show him the town.

Nat

Like Grant's Tomb, for instance?

But death.

Nat

Ain't it amazin' how many guys come down from Albany just to see Grant's Tomb?

[To Don]

Sometimes I wish you came from Albany.

Don

Yeah? Where would you take me?

Lots of places. The Music Hall, then The New Yorker roof, maybe.

Don

There is now being presented in the theatre on Forty-Fourth Street the uncut version of Hamlet. Now I see us as heading out for that. Do you know Hamlet?

I know Forty-Fourth Street.

Don

I'd like to get your interpretation of Hamlet's character.

I'd like to give it to you.

Don

Pour it softly, pour it gently, and pour it to the brim.

Nat

There are a lot of bars on Third Avenue. Do me a favor, will ya? Get out of here and buy it somewhere else...I don't like you much. What's the idea of pullin' her [Gloria's] leg? You know you're not going to take her out...You're drunk and you're just makin' with the mouth...I know the dame, the lady, I mean. I don't like what you're doin' to her, either...You should have seen her come in here last night looking for ya. Her eyes all rainy, and her mascara all washed away...That's an awful high-class young lady...How the heck did she ever get mixed up with a guy who sops it up like you do?

Don

Let me have one, Nat. I'm dying. Just one.

Nat

No credit and you know it. Yeah, one. One's too many, and a hundred's not enough. That's all...Now go, go away...I mean it, get out of here.

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