Perce:
How come you got such trust in your eyes, like you was just born?
--Montgomery Clift (as Perce Howland) in The Misfits
--Montgomery Clift (as Perce Howland) in The Misfits
Gay:
I hope your sober.
Perce: Man I have won buckets of money in towns I couldn't even remember the names of!
--Montgomery Clift (as Perce Howland) in The Misfits
Perce: Man I have won buckets of money in towns I couldn't even remember the names of!
--Montgomery Clift (as Perce Howland) in The Misfits
Ellen Shawnessy:
Did you ever hear your father's sermon on the evils of tobacco? Ends with a regular poem: "Some do it chew, and some do it smoke, while some it up their noses do poke."
John Wickliff Shawnessy: I do all three at the same time.
--Montgomery Clift (as John Wickliff Shawnessy) in Raintree County
John Wickliff Shawnessy: I do all three at the same time.
--Montgomery Clift (as John Wickliff Shawnessy) in Raintree County
Truck driver that picks up George hitchhiking:
[First Lines]
[pulling up to Eastman Industries]
Truck driver that picks up George hitchhiking: Is this the place?
George Eastman: Yeah.
--Montgomery Clift (as George Eastman) in A Place in the Sun
[pulling up to Eastman Industries]
Truck driver that picks up George hitchhiking: Is this the place?
George Eastman: Yeah.
--Montgomery Clift (as George Eastman) in A Place in the Sun
[Steve is teaching a young boy, whose name he does not know but has coined Jim, to speak English]
Ralph 'Steve' Stevenson: [to Jim] You have no idea how useful it's going to be for you to know English. You can go where ever you like. Everybody knows what 'OK' means. You can use English all over the world. Not, not just America: Canada, Africa, Australia, India. Even in England, they understand English... well, sort of.
--Montgomery Clift (as Ralph Stevenson) in The Search
Ralph 'Steve' Stevenson: [to Jim] You have no idea how useful it's going to be for you to know English. You can go where ever you like. Everybody knows what 'OK' means. You can use English all over the world. Not, not just America: Canada, Africa, Australia, India. Even in England, they understand English... well, sort of.
--Montgomery Clift (as Ralph Stevenson) in The Search
Cherry Valance:
You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day.
Matt Garth: Could be. I wouldn't count on it.
--Montgomery Clift (as Matt Garth) in Red River
Matt Garth: Could be. I wouldn't count on it.
--Montgomery Clift (as Matt Garth) in Red River
Morris Townsend: Catherine! Catherine! Catherine!
--Montgomery Clift (as Morris Townsend) in The Heiress
--Montgomery Clift (as Morris Townsend) in The Heiress
Alma: I do mean it when I say I need you. 'Cause I'm lonely. You think I'm lying, don't you?
Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
--Montgomery Clift (as Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt) in From Here to Eternity
Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
--Montgomery Clift (as Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt) in From Here to Eternity