Carl: [shouting at the lake] Now shut up now, come on now! Shut up! All you do is make noise in the world!
[speaking to Willie]
Carl: That's how you handle little things, see. You just yell at 'em and they just shut up like a clam. And that puts 'em in their proper place. Man I don't like little things. I don't like - bugs, and frogs, and spiders, and creepy crawly things that *zing* out at 'cha and bite 'cha when you're not lookin'. You know what a tick looks like?
Willie: Well, sure I seen ticks.
Carl: Yeah, well they're the worst because they find ya no matter where ya are, and they creep up ya and they suck your blood, see? Ooh they stink, those rotten things.


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Illustrated Man

Carl: I know what you're thinking... the funny thing is, that usually women ask that question before men do. But the answer is Yes. I'm covered with pictures from the neck right down to the toes. Everywhere, and I mean everywhere.


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Illustrated Man

Carl: Let me tell you... don't you look at those illustrations too long, because they'll come alive and they'll tell you stories.


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Illustrated Man

Carl: She had lived in the past, and she had lived in the future, and she put it all on me.


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Illustrated Man

Jud Fry: Look at me. I'm a hired hand. I got dirt on my hands. Pig slop. I ain't fit to touch you, am I - you're better. Oh, you're so much better, Miss Laurey Williams! Well we'll see how much better you are, and then you won't be so free and easy and hifalutin' with your airs! You such a FINE lady!


--Rod Steiger (as Jud Fry) in Oklahoma!

Nick Benko: Don't fight it, Eddie! What are you trying to do, hold onto your self-respect? Did your self-respect help you hold your job? Did your self-respect give you a new column?


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Harder They Fall

Nick Benko: The fight game today is like show business. There's no real fighters anymore, they're all actors. The best showman becomes the champ!


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Harder They Fall

Nick Benko: The people, Eddie, the people! Don't tell me about the people, Eddie. The people sit in front of their little TVs with their bellies full of beer and fall asleep. What do the people know, Eddie? Don't tell me about the people, Eddie!


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Harder They Fall

Stanley Hoff: [to Castle, after being slapped] I'll - break - you!


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Big Knife

Willie: Is - Is that what you mean by skin illustrations? Tattoos?
Carl: They're not tattoos, they're skin illustrations! Don't you ever call them tattoos!


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Illustrated Man