Morgan Taylor: I'll fix your head.
Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon: I suggest you use an axe.


--Dana Andrews (as Det. Mark Dixon) in Where the Sidewalk Ends

[first lines]
Dr. Maggie Sorenson: But Sir Charles, the project entrance is half a mile further on!
Sir Charles Eggerston: I know Mrs. Sorenson. I wanted to stop here to take a better look at *that*. That's your drill tower, isn't it?
Dr. Maggie Sorenson: Yes it is.
Sir Charles Eggerston: What's that missile doing up there? I thought that we came here to discuss with your husband the *possibility* of using an atomic warhead.
Dr. Maggie Sorenson: *Half* a missile, Sir Charles. If you look closely, you'll see it's not armed.


--Dana Andrews (as ) in Crack in the World

[Kolya gets ready to start his crippled plane's bombing run]
Kolya Simonov, air force man: Now get ready for it. This is going to be for my father, for me, for my village and for people I've never seen. Those are big words... I guess I'll have to stand by them now. I'm coming down and it's going to hurt you! And I'm coming down just where I want to, because I was a good bombadier and a good pilot, too!


--Dana Andrews (as Kolya Simonov) in The North Star

[Rampion is revived after being pulled unconscious from a volcanic vent]
Simpson: How do you feel?
Dr. Ted Rampion: Medium rare.


--Dana Andrews (as ) in Crack in the World

Quanah Parker: The Mexicans still collect gold from the government for Comanche scalps. Would you have me treat them as brothers?
Jim Read: They will no longer buy Commanche scalps. I ask you to call the Americans and the Mexicans... brothers.
Quanah Parker: You ask me to be better than my enemies.
Jim Read: I ask you to be greater. A great man can grant great favors.


--Dana Andrews (as ) in Comanche

Peggy Stephenson: Well, what have you been doing with yourself lately?
Fred Derry: Working.
Peggy Stephenson: Yes, Dad told me he heard you were in some kind of building work.
Fred Derry: Well, that's a hopeful way of putting it. I'm really in the junk business - an occupation for which many people feel I'm well-qualified by temperament and training.


--Dana Andrews (as Fred Derry) in The Best Years of Our Lives

Marie Derry: What do you think I was doing all those years?
Fred Derry: I don't know, babe, but I can guess.
Marie Derry: Go ahead. Guess your head off. I could do some guessing myself. What were you up to in London and Paris and all those places? I've given you every chance to make something of yourself. I gave up my own job when you asked me. I gave up the best years of my life, and what have you done? You flopped! Couldn't even hold that job at the drugstore. So I'm going back to work for myself and that means I'm gonna live for myself too. And in case you don't understand English, I'm gonna get a divorce. What have you got to say to that?
Fred Derry: Don't keep Cliff waiting.


--Dana Andrews (as Fred Derry) in The Best Years of Our Lives

Fred Derry: You know what it'll be, don't you, Peggy? It may take us years to get anywhere. We'll have no money, no decent place to live. We'll have to work, get kicked around.


--Dana Andrews (as Fred Derry) in The Best Years of Our Lives

Fred Derry: You know what it'll be, don't you, Peggy? It may take us years to get anywhere. We'll have no money, no decent place to live. We'll have to work, get kicked around.


--Dana Andrews (as Fred Derry) in The Best Years of Our Lives

Mark MacPherson: On Saturday when our men went to the hotel to tell you that Laura Hunt was dead you seemed sincerely shocked.
Shelby Carpenter: I was. I hadn't expected that mistake.
Mark MacPherson: But you had your alibi ready no matter who was dead.


--Dana Andrews (as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson) in Laura