Dermot: Which are we to serve first?
Sean: Ireland, of course!
Dermot: In doing so we stand to lose all the rest.


--Robert Mitchum (as ) in A Terrible Beauty

Dick Summers: Oh, I never tried to stop anybody from doin' anything. That's about the only principle I got.


--Robert Mitchum (as ) in The Way West

Felix Bowers: I sowed my wild oats a long time ago. Been living off the crop ever since. Not very nutritious.


--Robert Mitchum (as Felix) in Fire Down Below

Frank Jessup: [to Mary] You know something? You're a pretty nice guy - for a girl.


--Robert Mitchum (as Frank Jessup) in Angel Face

Jeb: [Narrating] One day I rode up in the butte country...
[Approaching the burned out shell of a cabin]
Jeb: Came straight to this place just like I'd known the way. There was something in my life that ruined that house. That house was myself.
[Entering the charred remains]
Jeb: I'd seen it a million times before... the fireplace... the trap door...
[Walking outside again]
Jeb: Out back there was some cattle bones. All of a sudden I couldn't breathe, and then as I walked around the side, I came upon some unmarked graves. If that house was me, what part of me was buried in those graves?


--Robert Mitchum (as Jeb) in Pursued

Jeb: [to Thor] There was a black dog riding my back and yours.


--Robert Mitchum (as Jeb) in Pursued

Jeff Bailey: [allowing one slap but blocking a second] That evens us. Now fold your hands or I'll fold 'em for you!


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

Jeff Bailey: How big a chump can you get to be? I was finding out.


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

Jeff Bailey: I never saw her in the daytime. We seemed to live by night. What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked. I didn't know where she lived. I never followed her. All I ever had to go on was a place and time to see her again. I don't know what we were waiting for. Maybe we thought the world would end.


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

Jeff Bailey: I sell gasoline, I make a small profit. With that I buy groceries. The grocer makes a profit. We call it earning a living. You may have heard of it somewhere.


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