Frank Sinatra quotes from Sinatra

Marty Sinatra

You lose again?

Young Frank

Got my wicks in. Pop, teach me some stuff. I wanna be a boxer. I wanna be a champ.

Marty Sinatra

Yeah. [he and Frank playfully practice some boxing punches]

Dolly Sinatra

Just what the world needs, another punch-drunk palooka.

Marty Sinatra

Frankie! Hey, Frankie! Frankie! Come on, wake up! Hey! [Frank wakes up] C'mon. Why aren't you at work?

Frank Sinatra

Cos I didn't go.

Marty Sinatra

What, first you quit your school, now you quit your job?

Frank Sinatra

Yeah.

Marty Sinatra

[short pause] Dolly! Hey, Dolly! Kid can't stick to anything! He's a quitter!

Dolly Sinatra

[to Frank] What the hell's going on?

Frank Sinatra

Mom, pop. I made a decision. I can't do that work no more. I'm gonna find me work being a singer like - like Bing Crosby.

Dolly Sinatra

Forget Bing Crosby! Get your job back!

Marty Sinatra

You listen to your mother.

Frank Sinatra

No, I'm telling you! I'm going to be a singer. It's all I do in my free time and free time's not enough no more!

Marty Sinatra

Frankie. You work hard, then you go to college, otherwise your gonna end up like me, a guy that can't even read or write his own name!

Frank Sinatra

I'm not gonna end up like you, pop. I gotta do this.

Marty Sinatra

Than I don't gotta support you! You don't work! You don't live here! [takes the apple out of his hand] And I'll tell you somethin' else! [smashes the apple on the kitchen table] You don't eat here!

Frank Sinatra

Ma, tell him. I can do this. I - I can be someone.

Dolly Sinatra

You are someone. Your Frankie Sinatra--

Marty Sinatra

[angrily] He's not! [to Frank] I'll tell you... You pack your bags! Hit the bricks! Out! Cos I didn't raise no kid to be no freeloader!

Frank Sinatra

Fine! [throws and smashes the pint of milk at the sink]

Dolly Sinatra

[shouts] You get a good look around this country! People are starving, mister big shot! Our neighbours! And they can't feed the seven kids they've got! Never mind a new one on the way! You know most people in this world today! They'll make $75 a week like you, mister big shot! Most people don't make $75 a month and if they did, they wouldn't quit!

Frank Sinatra

Hi, pop.

Marty Sinatra

I don't get it.

Frank Sinatra

Pop, I've learned a lot while I was on the road, but I'm a soloist.

Marty Sinatra

You couldn't be a soloist in a relief line. You're nothing but a quitter.

Frank Sinatra

Pop, I'm better than those bums. You don't know, you weren't there.

Marty Sinatra

Do you know what happens when cocky kids are in the ring? They go down. Down! Every time, down.

Frank Sinatra

Ma, I met a guy. Hank Sanicola, he's gonna manage me.

Dolly Sinatra

You're gonna kill us both if you don't straighten out.

Frank Sinatra

Ma, pop's wrong! I'm not going down! I'm going up!

Uh, excuse me. We have a problem.

Tommy Dorsey

We do? What's the problem?

We don't serve coloured's here.

Tommy Dorsey

[on Sy Oliver] He's with the band.

I'm sorry, it's hotel policy.

Frank Sinatra

Serve wasps? Tykes, kraut's, hunky's, mix? That's the whole band. Maybe we should all leave.

Hey, Frank, it's okay. I'm used to it.

Frank Sinatra

So am I. It ain't okay. [to the Hotel Clerk] I grew up with bums like this. Now give him the key or I'm gonna wreck this goddamn barn!

Tommy Dorsey

Take it easy, Frank.

Frank Sinatra

[angrily grabs the Hotel Clerk by the tie] I said give him the key!

Frank Sinatra

[to the Hotel Clerk] Thank you.

Frank Sinatra

You don't hang around with the guys much, do you?

Tommy Dorsey

Ah, you can't when you run an organisation.

Frank Sinatra

What about me?

Tommy Dorsey

Hey, pallie, you and I are a whole other species of human being. So, what's your signature song gonna be?

Frank Sinatra

I don't want a song, I want my own sound. You see, TD, if I can do with my voice what you do with a trombone, I can knock the whole gang right off the charts.

Tommy Dorsey

[short pause] Breath control. [walks]

Frank Sinatra

Breath control?

Frank Sinatra

You have no right to stop me!

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

I don't want to stop you. I want you to be the greatest singer there is. I just don't want to lose you.

Frank Sinatra

Tommy! Tommy, c'mon, stop, will ya. I know you got a call.

Tommy Dorsey

Yeah, I got a call. So you got yourself a big show business attorney now. And I got a call from Columbia Records, and I got a call from CBS. Oh, and I got a call from your... agent. Congratulations. [bitterly] You got a hell of a back up team all of a sudden.

Frank Sinatra

Tommy, I love ya. You done everything for me. But this just wasn't a fair deal.

Tommy Dorsey

Oh, but it's fair for you to break a contract? It's fair that they won't play my records on the radio if I don't let you out?!

Frank Sinatra

It wasn't a contract. It was a life sentence. Now I told you I'd stay for a year, and I will.

Tommy Dorsey

Nah, if you're gonna go? Go. [begins walking away]

Frank Sinatra

I'm sorry. But I gotta do this.

Tommy Dorsey

[turns] Not everybody thinks you're gonna be as big as you think. Personally? I hope you fall flat on your ass. [walks away]

Okay, okay, now let's cut through all the crap, boys. I'm still nervous about this. Frank, I think you're a very talented singer, but you got a soft voice. I can't see it filling up the Paramount.

Don't worry about his voice filling up your Theatre, Bob. The girls will fill up your Theatre. [laughs]

I can't gamble on that.

Frank Sinatra

I filled the Mosque. I can fill the Paramount.

The Mosque is a small Theatre in Newark. We're talking about the Paramount.

Frank Sinatra

Exactly.

Please, I'm asking you to reconsider.

Frank Sinatra

Manie, stop.

This is important to me, Frank.

Frank Sinatra

[noticing] Hey, that's Ava Gardner. [getting up from his actor's chair]

She's a dish, huh? Now, Frank, ple- Frank...

Frank Sinatra

Ava. Hi, I'm Frank Sinatra.

Ava Gardner

[tearfully] Hello, Frank.

Frank Sinatra

What's the matter?

Ava Gardner

[sighs] Nothing.

Frank Sinatra

Well, nothing's running your mascara. [takes off his sailor tie, gently wipes Ava's tears off with it]

Ava Gardner

Well, Artie and I had another fight.

Frank Sinatra

Ah, dump the bum. He's just another band leader, I dumped plenty of 'em.

Ava Gardner

[laughs, smiles] Now look what you've done. [putting his sailor tie back on] You ruined my perfectly terrible mood.

Miss Gardner, they're ready for you on the set.

Ava Gardner

I gotta go.

Frank Sinatra

It was nice meeting you, Ava.

Ava Gardner

Likewise, I'm sure. [walks away]

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

Marilyn, I couldn't help but notice your bracelet.

Oh, it's my favourite thing.

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

Where did you get it?

Frank Sinatra

[nervously] Hey, come on. We're gonna miss the new year.

[to Nancy] An old dear friend.

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

Did Frank give that to you?

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

[angrily to Marilyn] I want you out of my house. Get out!

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

[tearfully] Don't you see what's happening? I'm sitting here pretending like nothing's going on all the time. I'm doing just what my mother did, and I can't help it because I love you so much. [pause, Frank sits on the sofa] Maybe we should go away together. Just the two of us. No friends, no company. We'll send the kids to my parents house.

Frank Sinatra

Nance, I got another picture.

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

Well, then when you come home at night, we could spend our nights together.

Frank Sinatra

It shoots in New York.

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

[pause, tearfully] We moved to Hollywood so you could be closer to your work, and now you're gonna shoot only in New York?!

Frank Sinatra

Nance, it's such a good role.

Frank Sinatra

What's the matter now?

You hit the papers again. How's your pal Lucky Luciano?

Frank Sinatra

I met him.

What's that mean, you met him?

Frank Sinatra

What did I do wrong? I can't shake hands now?

The press and in particular Lee Mortimer is making you the sidekick of gangsters.

Frank Sinatra

Right. I drive the getaway car. [short pause] George, you said no women. You didn't say anything about mobsters.

Listen, Frank...

Frank Sinatra

This is ridiculous! I grew up in Little Italy, Hoboken, New Jersey, with Joe Fischetti and half these other monkeys! And it's none of Lee Mortimer's goddamn business what I do with my private life!

It's my business! And it's my business to make you look good, and make people wanna spend money to buy your records and see your movies! I'm just telling you to think about this self-destructive path your on! Now I suggest you get the hell outta here. Go back home like I suggested in the first place! And think about what you're doing! Before you do it! Do you understand?

Frank Sinatra

[short pause] Yeah, I understand. I understand.

Frank Sinatra

You think you, sweetheart, we'd give you permission to come to Houston with me?

Ava Gardner

I don't need permission. What's Houston?

Frank Sinatra

I'm open in a hotel there.

Ava Gardner

A hotel?

Frank Sinatra

Yeah. The breads good.

Ava Gardner

[sarcastically] Awwww, poor Francis, they got you opening hotels now?

Frank Sinatra

[angrily grabs Ava] What is it with you? It's not enough for you to have a guy, you have to screw with his head too?

Ava Gardner

Goodbye, Francis.

Frank Sinatra

Ava, for God's sake, what are you doing?

Ava Gardner

[shouts] Don't you ever grab me like that again!

Frank Sinatra

All right, I'm sorry. I'm sorry! Come on, you're breaking my heart here.

Ava Gardner

Go home to your wife and kids. I'm not a home wrecker.

Frank Sinatra

You're not a home wrecker. It was over before New York.

Ava Gardner

Oh sure, does she know that?

Frank Sinatra

You know, I never figured out how to tell her.

Ava Gardner

Take a lesson from me: Goodbye, Francis.

Frank Sinatra

Ava.

Ava Gardner

It's never gonna work between us.

Frank Sinatra

Maybe I should get my own place.

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

[holding baby Tina] I read that you two were an item. You still seeing her? [pause] Listen to me, get my information from the papers.

Frank Sinatra

I guess it's over with her.

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

Then come home, Frank. You belong here with your family.

Frank Sinatra

Then why don't I feel it?

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

[pause] I think it would be better if you did get your own place.

Frank Sinatra

[pause] I tried, Nance. I really tried.

Nancy Barbato Sinatra

Did you?

Frank Sinatra

Longer than you know.

Ava Gardner

Surprise.

Frank Sinatra

Where's Howard?

Ava Gardner

Ah, shut up.

Ava Gardner

Are you showing me off, Francis?

Frank Sinatra

Damn right. Give me a kiss.

Ava Gardner

No, everybody's looking.

Frank Sinatra

You know why?

Ava Gardner

No.

Frank Sinatra

Every cat in here wants to be me and every chick wants to be you. [kisses her on the cheek]