Kathie Moffat: I'm sorry he didn't die.
Jeff Bailey: Give him time.


--Robert Mitchum (as ) in Out of the Past

Kathie Moffat: Oh Jeff, you ought to have killed me for what I did a moment ago.
Jeff Bailey: [dryly] There's time.


--Robert Mitchum (as ) in Out of the Past

Kathie Moffat: Oh, Jeff, I don't want to die!
Jeff Bailey: Neither do I, baby, but if I have to I'm gonna die last.


--Robert Mitchum (as ) in Out of the Past

Client in barber shop: Pretty funny games they play down there, huh?
Lee Arnold: What about Villa? Did you hear anything about him?
Client in barber shop: Yeah... Yeah, he escaped from jail in Mexico City. Huerta has practically his entire army looking for him. Must want him pretty bad, huh?
Lee Arnold: Yeah, I guess he does.
Client in barber shop: Hey, Lee. Is this 'Villa' a friend of yours?
Lee Arnold: Yeah, I know him.


--Robert Mitchum (as ) in Villa Rides

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: How'd I get in the wrong? Did you call about the icebox or not?
Jerry Ryan: Not.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Well, I can't follow this. You called.
Jerry Ryan: I called because I was going out of my head in solitary.
Jerry Ryan: I called to make contact with someone of the weaker sex, who's weaker.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: OK, here I am. Contact.
Jerry Ryan: I called to ask you to dinner tonight. And a show, if you like.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Well, why didn't ya?
Jerry Ryan: I was afraid you'd say yes or no.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I would have said "Sure"!
Jerry Ryan: Right away we have problems. What show? Where to eat?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Wait! Now I'm not so sure. I don't know if I want to get involved. You sound complicated.
Jerry Ryan: Oh.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I'm the girl, right? And you're the man. Make up your mind, ask me, and I'll make up mine.
Jerry Ryan: Been trying for a month.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: To ask me to dinner?
Jerry Ryan: No, to get unstuck from a piece of flypaper. After you've broken your leg in five places you hesitate to make that first step. Reason I hung up on you was because I didn't want to say, "Please, help me"


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Is it OK enough to?
Jerry Ryan: Is what OK enough to?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Your leg?
Jerry Ryan: It may have affected my head!


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Jerry?
Jerry Ryan: What?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: You don't like me any more?
Jerry Ryan: I hate you. Is that passionate enough?


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Things look a lot different to me now. You did me a worid of good, Jerry.
Jerry Ryan: Did I, Gittel? Really? Because if I could think that...
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: You helped me. This is the first time I come out with more than I went in. Whoever this guy is, he'll owe you.
Jerry Ryan: Thank you. She'll owe you, too. More than she'll ever know.


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Why so sore? 'Cause I feel sorry for ya?
Jerry Ryan: I don't think I can afford you. I'm not ready for a whole human, complete with weaknesses...
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Who asked ya? Who made an offer?
Jerry Ryan: I did, but I take it back. I'm neither ready nor able to be responsible for anything these days. Least of all an ingenuous nitwit. That's why I'm sore. Disappointment.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: What does ingenuous mean? Smart?
Jerry Ryan: Dumb. Naive.


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Mark Cardigan: I'm out of my mind to ask her... She hates everything I do.
Dan Milner: She likes you.
Mark Cardigan: Yeh, I know, that's what I don't understand.
Dan Milner: If she liked me, man, I wouldn't try to understand.


--Robert Mitchum (as Dan Milner) in His Kind of Woman