Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith Quotes in The Long Goodbye (1973)

Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: What'll you have?

Philip Marlowe: What are you drinking?

Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: What I'm drinking is called Aquavit.

Philip Marlowe: I'm drinking what you're drinking.

Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: Well God bless you. I like to hear that. People these days go, "Oh, I want a little of this. Oh, and a little of that and a twist of lemmon." Balls!

Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: Do you ever think about suicide, Marlboro?

Philip Marlowe: Me, I don't believe in it.

Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: I tell you what we're gonna do, Marlboro. You're gonna take that goddamn J.C. Penney tie off and we're gonna have an old fashioned man to man drinking party.

Philip Marlowe: Well, that's okay but I'm not taking off the tie.

Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: You know, if I could just get you to understand that when a writer can't write, it's just like being impotent.

Eileen Wade: I understand what that's like, too.

Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: Oh, you do, do you? You do? BALLS, BABY, BALLS!

Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: [on Dr. Verringer to party guests as Verrigner stands before him] You know, this son of a bitch - let me tell you one thing about this bastard. He is the epitome of what's wrong - with this world - he really is actually, 'cause he pretends to cure people. Can you cure people?