Marty 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!

Frank Sinatra

[to Marty, who is dying] Pop, I'm thinking of leaving the business.

Marty Sinatra

Why do you wanna do that for?

Frank Sinatra

I'm tired. Tired of being in the spotlight. Music business changes so fast they can't keep up with the next guy anymore. Maybe I should stop trying. [pause] You always told me, "Fighters gotta know when to quit. Stay too long, they remember you as the guy on the canvas." [pause] Pop?

Marty Sinatra

... What?

Frank Sinatra

Is it hard to quit?

Marty Sinatra

Not if you had a guy on the mat...

Frank Sinatra

You used to call me a quitter, remember? [pause] Remember what a pain in the ass I was when I was starting out? I had to sing, I had to be the best. I always knew that I could do it, pop. I wanted you to know I could do it.

Marty Sinatra

[pause] All those years... the guys at the fire house... they treated me like... a champ... Because of you.

Frank Sinatra

Yeah.

Marty Sinatra

... You're no quitter, son.

Frank Sinatra

Thank you, pop. [stands up, kisses his father on his forehead] Goodnight. I love you, pop.

Marty Sinatra

Frank... don't go... Just stay awhile.

Frank Sinatra

[sits down] Sure, pop.

Frank Sinatra

[pause] Goodnight, champ.