Ticket Seller Quotes in North by Northwest (1959)

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Ticket Seller Quotes:

  • [Thornhill is wearing sunglasses to hide his identity]

    Ticket Seller: Something wrong with your eyes?

    Roger Thornhill: Yes, they're sensitive to questions.

  • Jay Trotter: Gimme forty-eight $50 win tickets on the three horse in the seventh race.

    Ticket Seller: [starts pushing buttons] So, I have to give you forty-eight $50 win tickets on the three horse in the seventh race...

    Jay Trotter: Wait! Wait! How much does forty-eight $50 win tickets on the three horse in the seventh race *pay*?

    Ticket Seller: Let's see... forty-eight $50 win tickets on the three horse in the seventh race at...

    Ticket Seller: [whistles]

    Ticket Seller: ...twenty-nine to one will pay you approximately...

    Ticket Seller: [moves his lips and mumbles to himself while figuring]

    Ticket Seller: ...sixty-nine thousand dollars!

  • Jay Trotter: [puts $2400 in cash on the counter] Let it ride!

    Ticket Seller: What's the number?

    Jay Trotter: [smile fades away]

    Ticket Seller: It's a house rule! You've got to give me a number!

  • Jay Trotter: [puts the box with $69,000 in cash on the counter] Let it ride!

    Ticket Seller: Is it all there?

    Jay Trotter: I took out a little for the wife and a few things, but basically, yeah, it's all there!

    Ticket Seller: I can't give you win tickets for that! That's over 1300 win tickets! It will jam up the machine!

    Ticket Seller: [leans forward]

    Ticket Seller: The counting room!

  • [Discussing Trotter]

    Ticket Seller: All kind of balls...

    Bodyguard: One of his is crystal.

  • Ticket Seller: [seeing Trotter coming to bet $68,000] I may faint. Don't worry. We got full medical coverage. I'll be ok.

  • Ticket Seller: The tower is closed this evening.

    Ken: No way, it's supposed to be open until seven.

    Ticket Seller: The tower is usually open until seven, yesterday an American had a heart attack at the tower, today the tower is closed.

    Harry: [Harry hands ticket seller 100 Euros] Here cranky, here's a hundred for you. Were only gonna be twenty minutes.

    Ticket Seller: [crumples the money and throws it at Harry's head]

    [tapping on Harry's forehead]

    Ticket Seller: The tower... is closed... this evening! Understand? English man!

    [Ken walks up the tower while Harry proceeds to beat the ticket seller]

  • Lee Chan: [arriving late and in a hurry] We want two good seats down front!

    Ticket Seller: Sorry, we're sold out.

    Horce 'Knock-Out' Wellington: He's sold out?

    [to the ticket taker]

    Horce 'Knock-Out' Wellington: Do you know who we are?

    Ticket Seller: [laconically, as he closes down the ticket window] Sure, a couple of guys that ain't gonna see the fight.

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