Johnnie Bradfield, aka Jack Dorney: If you're rootin' for me, I'll go in there and bang the ears off the biggest guy in the world.


--John Garfield (as Johnnie Bradfield, aka Jack Dorney) in They Made Me a Criminal

Mickey Borden: I wouldn't win first prize if I were the only entry in the contest.
Ann Lemp: Mathematically speaking, I think you'd stand a fine chance.
Mickey Borden: You think they'd let me win?
Ann Lemp: Who?
Mickey Borden: They.
Ann Lemp: Who?
Mickey Borden: The fates, the destinies, whoever they are that decide what we do or don't get.
Ann Lemp: What do you mean?
Mickey Borden: They've been at me now nearly a quarter of a century. No let-up. First they said, "Let him do without parents. He'll get along." Then they decided, "He doesn't need any education. That's for sissies." Then right at the beginning, they tossed a coin. "Heads he's poor, tails he's rich." So they tossed a coin... with two heads. Then, for a finale, they got together on talent. "Sure," they said, "let him have talent. Not enough to let him do anything on his own, anything good or great. Just enough to let him help other people. It's all he deserves." Well, you put all this together and you get Michael Bolgar.


--John Garfield (as Mickey Borden) in Four Daughters

Nick Blake: [First Lines]
[voice-over]
Nick Blake: This was the view from my window in the Army hospital on Governor's Island.


--John Garfield (as ) in Nobody Lives Forever

Nick Blake: I don't wanna get rough with you unless I have to!


--John Garfield (as ) in Nobody Lives Forever

Nick Blake: People like me don't change.


--John Garfield (as ) in Nobody Lives Forever

Paul Boray: All my life I wanted to do the right thing but it never worked out. I'm outside always looking in. Feeling all the time I'm far away from home and where home is I don't know. I can't get back to the simple happy kid I used to be.


--John Garfield (as Paul Boray) in Humoresque

Tom Prior: I read a great epitaph once, I'm gonna steal it for myself.
Scrubby: Sir?
Tom Prior: Here lies Prior, died a bachelor. Wifeless. Childless. Wish his father'd died the same.


--John Garfield (as ) in Between Two Worlds

Wolf: [During a particularly fierce depth-charging of the 'Copperfin'] I wonder how the invasion of Europe is getting along?


--John Garfield (as Wolf) in Destination Tokyo

Paule Manet: [Trying to convince him to throw the race] But it's just one more race!
Dan Butler: Just one race - one more and one more, and that's the way it goes! When I was fifteen, I threw my first one. I've thrown hundreds since. Now look at me! The places I run away from! The places I can't show my face! A guy ends up playing tag with himself! He's gotta stop sometime!


--John Garfield (as ) in Under My Skin

Paule Manet: Tell me, how does a man get to be a 100% heel?
Dan Butler: It's easy!


--John Garfield (as ) in Under My Skin