Scott: Well, let's face it, I'm not well!


--Robert Ryan (as Scott) in The Woman on the Beach

Smith Ohlrig: I was born rich. My father left me 4 million dollars. But I didn't drink it away, I didn't gamble it away, I didn't marry it away. I knew what to do with it. I've got exactly 22 and a half times that much now, and I'll have 50 times that much before I die. That's what everyone wants, isn't it? Well, I've got it. And I made it myself. Every one of my corporations - every single one - has a different staff, a different lawyer, a different accountant. Not one of them knows anything about each other. I run it all. Each one has his place, and he stays there. And why not? They're well paid. And that's what you've got to learn, Leonora. You're better paid than any of them. And you've got YOUR place: this house. And that's where you'll stay.


--Robert Ryan (as Smith Ohlrig) in Caught

Stoker: Well, that's the way it is. You're a fighter, you gotta fight.


--Robert Ryan (as Stoker) in The Set-Up

Ty Ty Walden: [Expressing his contempt for alcohol] It's all the devil's brew. Cleanest drinking water right in our own back yard. I owe my health and long life to just plain well water.


--Robert Ryan (as Ty Ty Walden) in God's Little Acre

Ty Ty Walden: [In response to his son wanting a raincoat] Son, if it starts to rain, you just peel off your clothes and let your skin take care of the rest. God never made a finer raincoat than a man's skin, anyhow.


--Robert Ryan (as Ty Ty Walden) in God's Little Acre

Ty Ty Walden: [in son Jim Leslie's home] That's a dining room - way down there?


--Robert Ryan (as Ty Ty Walden) in God's Little Acre

Ty Ty Walden: Lord, give me the strength to spread out my arms to the ends of my fields. Let me fill up the holes, make the land smooth. You spared my sons, and I'll never dig another hole again. Except to... to plant seeds for things to grow.


--Robert Ryan (as Ty Ty Walden) in God's Little Acre

[about Ben Allison]
Nathan Stark: There goes the only man I ever respected. He's what every boy thinks he's going to be when he grows up and wishes he had been when he's an old man.


--Robert Ryan (as ) in The Tall Men

[after watching the movie, Mae and Jerry are visiting earl in the projection booth]
Earl Pfeiffer: Like the show?
Mae Doyle D'Amato: She's beautiful.
Earl Pfeiffer: Who? That celluloid angel you just saw? They oughta cut her up a little bit - she'd look more interesting.
Jerry D'Amato: Cut her up?
Earl Pfeiffer: Didn't you ever wanna cut up a beautiful dame?
Jerry D'Amato: No.
Earl Pfeiffer: Jeremiah, you're a simple man.


--Robert Ryan (as Earl Pfeiffer) in Clash by Night