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Sullivan's Travels Quotes

Sullivan's Travels is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Sullivan's Travels ended in 1970.

It features Paul Jones (film producer) as producer, Charles Bradshaw in charge of musical score, and John F. Seitz as head of cinematography.

Sullivan's Travels is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Sullivan's Travels is 90 minutes long. Sullivan's Travels is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Joel McCrea as John L. Sullivan, Robert Warwick as LeBrand, Porter Hall as Hadrian, Robert Greig as Burrows, and Veronica Lake as The Girl.

Sullivan's Travels Quotes

Joel McCrea as John L. Sullivan

  • (Joel McCrea) "I want this picture to be a commentary on modern conditions. Stark realism. The problems that confront the average man."
  • (Robert Warwick) "But with a little sex in it."
  • (Joel McCrea) "A little, but I don't want to stress it. I want this picture to be a document. I want to hold a mirror up to life. I want this to be a picture of dignity. A true canvas of the suffering of humanity."
  • (Robert Warwick) "But with a little sex in it."
  • (Joel McCrea) "With a little sex in it."
  • (Porter Hall) "How 'bout a nice musical?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "It's a funny thing how everything keeps shoving me back to Hollywood or Beverly Hills, or this monstrosity we're riding in. Almost like, like gravity as if some force were saying, 'Get back where you belong. You don't belong out here in real life, you phony you..' -- Maybe there's a universal law that says, 'Stay put. As you are, so shall you remain.' Maybe that's why tramps are always in trouble. They don't vote. They don't pay taxes. They violate the law of nature -- But nothing is gonna stop me. I'm gonna find out how it feels to be in trouble, without friends, without credit, without checkbook, without name. Alone."
  • (Joel McCrea) "But nothing is going to stop me. I'm going to find out how it feels to be in trouble. Without friends, without credit, without checkbook, without name. Alone."
  • (Veronica Lake) "And I'll go with you."
  • (Joel McCrea) "How can I be alone if you're with me?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "Of course I'm just a minor employee here, Mr. LeBrand --"
  • (Robert Warwick) "He's starting that one again."
  • (Joel McCrea) "I wanted to make you something outstanding -- something you could be proud of, something that would realize the potentialities of film -- as the sociological and artistic medium that it is. With a little sex in it. Something like --"
  • (Porter Hall) "Something like Capra. I know."
  • (Joel McCrea) "What's the matter with Capra?"
  • (Robert Warwick) "Look, you want to make O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
  • (Porter Hall) "Now, wait a minute."
  • (Robert Warwick) "Then go ahead and make it. For what you're getting, I can't afford to argue with you."
  • (Joel McCrea) "That's a fine way to start a man out on a million-dollar production."
  • (Robert Warwick) "You want it, you've got it. I can take it on the chin. I've taken it before."
  • (Joel McCrea) "Not from me you haven't."
  • (Robert Warwick) "Not from you, Sully, that's true. Not with pictures like So Long Sarong, Hey, Hey, In the Hayloft, Ants in Your Plants of 1939 -- But they weren't about tramps, lockouts, sweatshops, people eating garbage in alleys and living in piano boxes and ash cans."
  • (Porter Hall) "And phooey."
  • (Robert Warwick) "They're about nice, clean young people -- who fell in love -- with laughter and music and legs. Now take that scene in Hey, Hey, In the Hayloft --"
  • (Joel McCrea) "But you don't realize conditions have changed. There isn't any work. There isn't any food. These are troublous times."
  • (Porter Hall) "What do you know about trouble?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "What do I know about trouble?"
  • (Porter Hall) "Yes, what do you know about trouble?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "What do you mean, what do I know about trouble?"
  • (Porter Hall) "Just what I'm saying. You want to make a picture about garbage cans -- When did you eat your last meal out of one?"
  • (Porter Hall) "What's that got to do with it?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "He's asking you."
  • (Porter Hall) "You want an epic about misery -- you want to show hungry people sleeping in doorways."
  • (Robert Warwick) "With newspapers around them."
  • (Porter Hall) "You want to grind out ten thousand feet of hard luck; and all I'm asking you is, what do you know about hard luck?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "What do you mean, what do I know about hard luck? Don't you think I've --"
  • (Porter Hall) "No."
  • (Joel McCrea) "What?"
  • (Porter Hall) "You have not."
  • (Porter Hall) "I sold newspapers till I was 20, then I worked in a shoe store and put myself through law school at night. Where were you at 20?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "I was in college."
  • (Robert Warwick) "When I was 13 I supported three sisters, two brothers and a widowed mother. Where were you at 13?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "I was in boarding school. I'm sorry."
  • (Robert Warwick) "Well, you don't have to be ashamed of it, Sully. That's the reason your pictures have been so light, so cheerful, so inspiring."
  • (Porter Hall) "They don't stink with messages."
  • (Robert Warwick) "That's why I paid you five hundred a week when you were 24."
  • (Porter Hall) "Seven hundred and fifty when you were 25."
  • (Robert Warwick) "A thousand when you were 26."
  • (Porter Hall) "When I was 26, I was getting 18."
  • (Robert Warwick) "Two thousand at 27."
  • (Porter Hall) "I was getting 25 then."
  • (Robert Warwick) "I had just opened my shooting gallery then. Three thousand after Thanks for Yesterday."
  • (Porter Hall) "Four thousand after Ants in Your Plants."
  • (Joel McCrea) "I suppose you're trying to tell me I don't know what trouble is."
  • (Porter Hall) "Yes."
  • (Robert Warwick) "In a nice way, Sully."
  • (Joel McCrea) "You're absolutely right. I haven't any idea what it is."
  • (Porter Hall) "People always like what they don't know anything about."
  • (Joel McCrea) "I had a lot of nerve wanting to make a picture about human suffering."
  • (Robert Warwick) "You're a gentleman to admit it, Sully, but then, you are anyway."
  • (Policeman at Beverly Hills station) "How does the girl fit into the picture?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "There's always a girl in the picture. What's the matter, don't you go to the movies?"

Robert Greig as Burrows

  • (Robert Greig) "You see, sir, rich people and theorists; who are usually rich people; think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches; as disease might be called the lack of health. But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned."
  • (Robert Greig) "Good morning, sir."
  • (Robert Greig) "I don't like it at all, sir. Fancy dress, I take it?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "What's the matter with it?"
  • (Robert Greig) "I have never been sympathetic to the caricaturing of the poor and needy, sir."
  • (Joel McCrea) "Who's caricaturing?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "I'm going out on the road to find out what it's like to be poor and needy and then I'm going to make a picture about it."
  • (Robert Greig) "If you'll permit me to say so, sir, the subject is not an interesting one. The poor know all about poverty and only the morbid rich would find the topic glamorous."
  • (Joel McCrea) "But I'm doing it for the poor. Don't you understand?"
  • (Robert Greig) "I doubt if they would appreciate it, sir. They rather resent the invasion of their privacy, I believe quite properly, sir. Also, such excursions can be extremely dangerous, sir. I worked for a gentleman once who likewise, with two friends, accoutered themselves as you have, sir, and then went out for a lark. They have not been heard from since."

Veronica Lake as The Girl

  • (Veronica Lake) "You know, the nice thing about buying food for a man is that you don't have to listen to his jokes. Just think, if you were some big shot like a casting director or something, I'd be staring into your bridgework saying 'Yes, Mr. Smearcase. No, Mr. Smearcase. Not really, Mr. Smearcase. Oh, Mr. Smearcase, that's my knee.' Give Mr. Smearcase another cup of coffee. Make it two. Want a piece of pie?"
  • (Joel McCrea) "No thanks, kid."
  • (Veronica Lake) "Why, Mr. Smearcase, aren't you getting a little familiar?"
  • (Veronica Lake) "I liked you better as a bum."
  • (Joel McCrea) "I can't help what kind of people you like."

Robert Warwick as LeBrand

  • (Robert Warwick) "It died in Pittsburgh."
  • (Porter Hall) "Like a dog."
  • (Joel McCrea) "Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh --"
  • (Porter Hall) "They know what they like."
  • (Joel McCrea) "If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh."

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