Bill Dansing: [to Smith and Sinclair] Havin' you two kids together again, I could spit nickles!
Murray Sinclair: [Jokingly] Go ahead, Bill.


--Robert Preston (as Murray Sinclair) in Whispering Smith

Ed Peabody: It's a new world, and we don't belong in it.
Rubin Flood: Any world I'm in, I belong in!


--Robert Preston (as ) in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Jim Garry: I've been mixed up in a lot of things, Tate, but up to now, I've never been hired for my guns.
Tate Riling: Can you afford to be so particular?


--Robert Preston (as Tate Riling) in Blood on the Moon

Tom Cloud: Alright Which... you just went on wages.
James Cloud: Why Tom, I dont want wages from you. I just want half the place


--Robert Preston (as James Cloud) in The Sundowners

Tom Cloud: When I get finish with the kid, I am comming for you.
James Cloud: You are?... Now how can I help you.
Tom Cloud: I don't care where you go, or what you do, but I'll find you.
James Cloud: Good luck.


--Robert Preston (as James Cloud) in The Sundowners

Salesman on train: How far you going, friend?
Harold Hill: Wherever the people are as green as the money... friend.


--Robert Preston (as Harold Hill) in The Music Man

David Boothe: [to Joan standing atop the Hoover Dam] They tell me there's never been a single suicide off here, yet back in Chicago they drop off those high buildings like flies.


--Robert Preston (as David Boothe) in The Lady Gambles

David Boothe: Have you ever been in Las Vegas?
Dr. Rojac: Where?
David Boothe: Right in the middle of the Nevada desert you bump into a cockeyed oasis. It's a wide-open, 24-hour-a- day carnival that lives off three things - quick marriages, quick divorces, quick money, won and lost. $3 billion changed hands across the gambling table in Nevada last year, 3 billion. Those are the state's official figures and why not? Everybody likes to gamble. It's fun for most people, but for some people, it's a trap. It grabs down deep and won't let go.


--Robert Preston (as David Boothe) in The Lady Gambles

Harold Hill: [Marian and Winthrop are urging the Professor to leave before the crowd arrives] I can't go, Winthrop.
Winthrop Paroo: Why not?
Harold Hill: Well, for the first time in my life, I got my *foot* caught in the door.


--Robert Preston (as Harold Hill) in The Music Man

Harold Hill: A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?


--Robert Preston (as Harold Hill) in The Music Man