"FAVOURITE QUOTES" Topic

Just for fun…..What are your favourite quotes from film
noir/pulp?
I can think of quite a few but to get the ball rolling….

"Have you ever been in love Detective?"
"A dame in Washington Heights once got a fox fur out of me,"

(LAURA 1944)

Frank

The one that comes to mind is : " He's like most men, only more so".

Rick: You'll excuse me, gentlemen. Your business is politics, mine is running a saloon. Casablanca (1942)

"How could you?"

"It was easy."

I, the Jury.

"It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window."

Fairwell, My Lovely

One that goes something like, "If someone tells you to take a gun, you better take two."

Lot's of Chandler stuff here.

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It all began innocently enough on Tuesday. I was sitting in my office on that drizzly afternoon listening to the monotonous staccato of rain on my desktop and reading my name on the glass of my office door. "Regnad Kcin". My secretary lay snoring on the floor her long, beautiful gams pinioned under the couch. I didn't hear him enter, but my nostrils flared at the smell of his perfume… Pyramid Patchouli. There was only one joker in L.A. sensitive enough to wear that scent and I had to find out who he was.

Casablanca could provide at least a dozen quotes by itself.

"I hadn't seen a body put together like that since I'd solved the case of the Murdered Girl with the Big s."

Rigby Reardon – DMDWP

"Made it Ma, top of the World!" --White Heat

"Well, well. You're the first woman I've ever met who said yes when she meant yes." --Suspicion

"Casablanca could provide at least a dozen quotes by itself."

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They Live

I have come here to chew bubblegum…
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From Body Heat.
"You're not very smart. I like that in a man."

Charlie Chan: You should get married and raise large family. Once you have large family, all other troubles mean nothing.

-- Charlie Chan at the Opera

"We thought about for a long time, 'Endeavor to persevere', and when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union."

- Chief Lone Watie The Outlaw Josey Wales

"Don't down my back and tell me it's raining."

- Cpt. Fletcher The Outlaw Josey Wales

"Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?"

- Josey Wales The Outlaw Josey Wales

Very quotable movie.

"Leave the gun. Take the canoli."

"To hear de lamentation uff de vomen."

Inspector Frank Bumstead: So Husselbeck, what kind of killer do you think stops to save a dying fish?

"Leave the gun. Take the canolis."

Jack Burton: Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol' storm right square in the eye and he says, "Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."

Johnny Caspar: It's gettin' so a businessman can't expect no return from a fixed fight. Now, if you can't trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return, you gotta go bettin' on chance – and then you're back with anarchy, right back in the jungle.

Verna in Miller's Crossing:
"Maybe that's why I like you, Tom. I've never met anyone who made being a son of a bitch such a point of pride."

"From thirty feet away she looked like a million bucks; from ten feet away she looked like a woman best seen from thirty feet away." -- unknown stand-up comic from the 80s.

"I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS ING COUCH!" -- Gary, from "The Thing"

Philip Marlowe: She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.

Jack Burton, When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: Have ya paid your dues, Jack? Yessir, the check is in the mail.

On the topic of The Outlaw Josey Wales:

Bounty hunter #1: You're wanted, Wales.

Josey Wales: Reckon I'm right popular. You a bounty hunter?

Bounty hunter #1: A man's got to do something for a living these days.

Josey Wales: Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

My favourite

Josey Wales: When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long.

Lone Watie: I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.

So many from Secret of the Incas, with Heston as Harry Steele:

Miss Morris: Most men don't enjoy taking money from women.

Harry Steele: That's the best kind. It's the hardest to get and always smells so good.
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Harry Steele: Where did Morgan say he'd meet me?

Charlie: The old grotto. Better stay away from that crud.

Harry Steele: I like being around Morgan. Makes me feel honest.

"If your looking for sympathy its in the dictionary between s##t and syphilis"
Can't remember the film but I use this all the time.
Another favourite is " just because I make this job look easy it doesn't mean I'm doing nothing".
I don't even know if I heard that somewhere else or I may have made it up myself lol.

Scarface"
'Hey Tony,what about him?'
-Tony- " yeah what about you? " ( bodies everywhere )
-Tony- "you uh- you need a job ?"
"Yeah Tony I need a job,"
-Tony- " OK, you work for me? Start next Monday OK?"
Man downs his scotch in relieve…… Favorite scene in the film

You know what ole Jack Burton says at a time like this….What the hell.

Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort, and keep the home fires burning. If we are not back by dawn, call the president.

Phil

So many to choose from, here's a little selection:-

Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it. (The Maltese Falcon)

Kasper Gutman: I distrust a man who says "when." If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. (The Maltese Falcon)

Eddie Harwood: I know I've got lots of faults, but being in love with you isn't one of them, is it? (The Blue Dahlia)

Ellen Graham: Why don't you go to the police?
Philip Raven: I'm my own police. (This Gun for Hire)

Kathie Moffat: Oh, Jeff, I don't want to die!
Jeff Bailey: Neither do I, baby, but if I have to I'm gonna die last. (Out of the Past / Build My Gallows High)

Lt. Duke Halliday: [running out of bullets] It'll be getting dark soon. I hate the thought of spending the night with an empty revolver.
Joan Graham: There's always me.
Lt. Duke Halliday: Tonight you gotta pick? (The Big Steal)

Roy Earle: I wouldn't give you two cents for a dame without a temper. (High Sierra)

Captain Dudley Smith: Have you a valediction, boyo?
Jack Vincennes: [gasping out a name] … Rollo Tamasi (LA Confidential)

Captain Renault: Major Strasser has been shot… round up the usual suspects…

Rick: Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

One more Harry Steele quote from Secret of the Incas:

"The next time you send a rifle after me I'm going to bring it back here and ram it up your nose!"

What?!?!? No quotes from Kelly's Heroes!?!?!?

Oddball:

Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves.

The only way I got to keep them Tigers busy is to LET THEM SHOOT HOLES IN ME!

I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.

Woof, woof, woof! That's my other dog imitation.

It's like I told my ex-wife, Honey, I never drive faster than I can see and besides, it's all in the reflexes.

Jack Burton

"The romantic Englishwoman" /
The Englishwoman was the most romantic, all she wanted was everything.

Jeff; "I didn't know you were so little"

Kathie; "I'm taller than Napoleon"

Jeff; "you're prettier too"

(BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH 1947)

"She turned me into a NEWT!"

"Wull, I got betta."

"There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie."
-indiscreet (1958)

"You can take glory with you,when it's your time to go."Errol Flynn-They Died With Their Boots On. And "The first rule of Fight Club-do not talk about Fight Club" ;^) Maybe not noir,but still good stuff.

We know all about you, Monsieur Rick, it's right here in your dossier.

(Flipping though the dossier)
Are my eyes really brown?

Or

Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man, it's the romantic in me.

V/R,
Jack

Since I've been a grown up, I've spent most of my life in prison… I'll probably spend the rest of it dead.

Duke Mantee. "The Petrified Forest".

Bogart and Greenstreet both pull guns in "Across the Pacific" and Bogart says "Mine's bigger than yours".

Ned Pepper: What's your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?

Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?

Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.

Rooster Cogburn: Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!

And if you need to be told what film that's from shame on you. Shame!

Fatman

A bit chilling, knowing what follows later;

VINCE STONE: (to DEBBY) "That's a real pretty kisser"

THE BIG HEAT

Major Strasser: "What is nationality"
Rick: "I'm a drunkard."

Victor Laszlo (to Band Leader): Play the "Marseillaise."… Play it!

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?

Captain Renault: I'm shocked… shocked to find that gambling is going on in there.

Croupier: Your winnings sir.

Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." ( the shootist john Wayne )

Jules: "You read the Bible, Brett?"
Brett: "Yes!"
Jules: "Well, there's this passage I've got memorized that sort of fits this occasion. Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of the evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and goodwill, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!"

Definitely one of Samuel L. Jackson's finest moments on film.

the following are from the wild bunch ( 1969 )

We're not gonna get rid of anybody. We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be. When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal – you're finished! We're finished! All of us!

If they move, kill 'em!

We started together. We'll end it together.

They'll be waitin' for us. ( dutch )
I wouldn't have it any other way. ( pike )

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