Kitty March: How long does it take you to paint a picture?
Christopher Cross: Sometimes a day, sometimes a year. You can't tell. It has to grow.
Kitty March: I never knew paint could grow.
Christopher Cross: Feeling grows. You know, that's the important thing, feeling. You take me. No one ever taught me how to draw, so I just put a line around what I feel when I look at things.
Kitty March: Yeah I see.
Christopher Cross: It's like falling in love I guess. You know... first you see someone, then it keeps growing, until you can't think of anyone else.
Kitty March: That's interesting.
Christopher Cross: The way I think of things, that all art is. Every painting, if it's any good, is a love affair.
Kitty March: I never heard anyone talk like that before.
Christopher Cross: There aren't many people you can talk to this way. So you keep it to yourself. You walk around with everything bottled up.


--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in Scarlet Street

Lady Fingers: How you holdin' up, Lancey?
Lancey Howard: Lady Fingers, that young man is a stud poker playing son of a...
Lady Fingers: He's gettin' to you, ain't he?
Lancey Howard: No, Lady, he hasn't gotten to me.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Lancey Howard) in The Cincinnati Kid

Lee Morgan: I'll wait for you.
Johnny Blake: You'll have to wait too long.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Johnny Blake) in Bullets or Ballots

Lee Morgan: You're a funny fella, Johnny. When you come out of your shell, you're really human.
Johnny Blake: Well, I don't like to see decent people pushed around.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Johnny Blake) in Bullets or Ballots

Miss Hinkel: [answering the phone] Mr. Scott's office.
[pause]
Miss Hinkel: No, this is not the Safeway Cleaners and Dryers!
[hanging up]
Miss Hinkel: Some idiot wants his pants pressed. Maybe we oughta get a new number.
Victor Scott: Not so fast. We may be pressing pants again.


--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in Illegal

Rameses: Now speaks the rat that would be my ears.
Dathan: Too many ears tie a rat's tongue.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Dathan) in The Ten Commandments

Edward S. Norton: That witness from the train, what was his name?
Barton Keyes: His name was Jackson. Probably still is.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Barton Keyes) in Double Indemnity

Defense Attorney: So while no cures can be attributed to '606,' 38 deaths resulted from it's use?
Dr. Emil Von Behring: 39.
Defense Attorney: 39? You know of another death?
Dr. Emil Von Behring: Yes, syphilis. The death of syphilis itself.
Dr. Hans Wolfert: Dr. von Behring you have written and lectured against the Ehrlich theory.
Dr. Emil Von Behring: Yes, I did, Dr. Wolfert, but you must understand it is the task of science to discover the truth. There is no shame attached to the recognition of error.


--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Mr. Thorndyke: Why did you try to take over the job?
Johnny Blake: I didn't try and take it over, I took it over.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Johnny Blake) in Bullets or Ballots

Slade: How the hell did you know I didn't have the king or the ace?
Lancey Howard: I recollect a young man putting the same question to Eddie the Dude. "Son," Eddie told him, "all you paid was the looking price. Lessons are extra."


--Edward G. Robinson (as Lancey Howard) in The Cincinnati Kid