Charlie Max: Women are worse than flies.


--Jack Elam (as Charlie Max) in Kiss Me Deadly

Jake: Well, I did odd jobs... for one thing, I was a Orr holder at Madame Horse's, uh, horse holder at Madame Orr's House.


--Jack Elam (as Jake) in Support Your Local Sheriff!

Norman: Say, you wearin' that pretty dress for me?
Leah: You like it?
Norman: Yeah, mm, I like along with what's inside it.


--Jack Elam (as ) in Firecreek

Pete Harris: Okay wise guy, you found me. Now what?
Joe Rolfe: What's eatin' you?
Pete Harris: You been giving me the fisheye all night.


--Jack Elam (as Pete Harris) in Kansas City Confidential

Preacher Weatherby: [to Brownie after marrying him to Mercy] I said 'amen.' You can kiss her even if you have before.


--Jack Elam (as ) in The Way West

Jason McCullough: It seems like you spent a lot of time with horses.
Jake: One end or the other. Of course, I come about it natural. My daddy stole horses for a living. They hung him.


--Jack Elam (as Jake) in Support Your Local Sheriff!

Jason McCullough: Jake, how would you like the job as my deputy?
Jake: I'd hate it! Even if I lived through it, I'd hate it!


--Jack Elam (as Jake) in Support Your Local Sheriff!

Jason McCullough: Well, do you see anything?
Jake: No. What are we lookin' for?
Jason McCullough: What are we lookin' for? We're lookin' for nuggets, a vein, the mother lode!
Jake: What's the mother lode?
Jason McCullough: I'm beginning to get the horrible feelin' you know even less about gold mining than I do, Jake.
Jake: Course I don't know anything about gold mining!
Jason McCullough: Well, what do you think I brought you along for? I thought everyone around here knew about mining.
Jake: Well I don't! I might be able to give you a few tips about shoveling horse... working around the stable, but I don't know nothing about huntin' gold.


--Jack Elam (as Jake) in Support Your Local Sheriff!

Zimmerman: [referring to Vin] Keep away from her!
Tevis: Why, I ain't been cured of women. Ain't had your medicine, Jim.


--Jack Elam (as ) in Rawhide

Earl: [after Norman has inappropriately touched Meli, the waitress and caused her to run away] Well, times have changed, grandpa. Girl likes a little cooing first. You just can't grab her like that!
Norman: My age, son, you gotta take short cuts! Minutes count!
[the outlaws break into riotous laughter]


--Jack Elam (as ) in Firecreek