Emma: [Passionately addressing the members of the posse] You heard her tell how they're gonna' run the railroad through here, bringin' thousands of new people from the east. Farmers! Dirt farmers! Squatters! They'll push us out. Is that what you're waitin' for? You're actin' like she's some fine lady, and doin' nothin' makes all of you fine gentlemen. Well, she ain't, and you're not! So you better wake up. Or you're gonna' find you and your women and your kids squeezed between barbed wire and fence posts. Is that what you're waitin' for? Well, I'm not!


--Mercedes McCambridge (as Emma Small) in Johnny Guitar

Emma: [to Vienna] You're nothin' but a railroad tramp! You're not fit to live among us!


--Mercedes McCambridge (as Emma Small) in Johnny Guitar

Emma: You all think she's some fine lady and that doing nothing makes you fine gentlemen. Well she ain't! And you're not!


--Mercedes McCambridge (as Emma Small) in Johnny Guitar

Emma: You're nothing but a railroad tramp.


--Mercedes McCambridge (as Emma Small) in Johnny Guitar

Sadie Burke: He'll ditch everybody in the whole world, because that's what Willie wants. Nobody in the world but him!


--Mercedes McCambridge (as Sadie Burke) in All the King's Men

Sadie Burke: How'd you get him here? He was out stiff.
Jack Burden: A hair of the dog that bit him.
Sadie Burke: Hair? He must've swallowed the dog!


--Mercedes McCambridge (as Sadie Burke) in All the King's Men

Thelma Diaz: From now on you have no name, only a number. You have no future, only the past. No hope, only regrets. You have no friends, only me.


--Mercedes McCambridge (as ) in Island of Despair

[last lines]
Thelma Diaz: Like old times...


--Mercedes McCambridge (as ) in Island of Despair