Johnny: [starting a song] Her name was Emma Smalls, Emma Smalls.


--Sterling Hayden (as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan) in Johnny Guitar

Johnny: How many men have you forgotten?
Vienna: As many women as you've remembered.
Johnny: Don't go away.
Vienna: I haven't moved.
Johnny: Tell me something nice.
Vienna: Sure, what do you want to hear?
Johnny: Lie to me. Tell me all these years you've waited. Tell me.
Vienna: [without feeling] All those years I've waited.
Johnny: Tell me you'd a-died if I hadn't come back.
Vienna: [without feeling] I woulda died if you hadn't come back.
Johnny: Tell me you still love me like I love you.
Vienna: [without feeling] I still love you like you love me.
Johnny: [bitterly] Thanks. Thanks a lot.


--Sterling Hayden (as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan) in Johnny Guitar

Johnny: There's only two things in this world that a 'real man' needs: a cup of coffee and a good smoke.


--Sterling Hayden (as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan) in Johnny Guitar

Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: When a house is on fire everybody must come and help put it out... because the next time it just might be your house.


--Sterling Hayden (as ) in Suddenly

[Bart assumes the identity of Major Pepperis]
Christella Burke: We're not moving?
Bart Laish: Yes.
Christella Burke: Tonight?
Bart Laish: Tonight.
Christella Burke: But we can't Major.
Bart Laish: Why not?
Christella Burke: The trip will be too hard on the wounded soldiers.
Bart Laish: Miss Burke, back where I came from there happened to be dead soldiers.


--Sterling Hayden (as ) in Arrow in the Dust

[first lines]
Max Reno: When the tide comes in, you'll be safe as if you were in your mother's arms. I picked this hideout a month ago. It's a beauty, ain't it? You're a lucky boy, Jim. You should have met me a long time ago.
Jay Turner: You'll never let me forget it, Reno...
Max Reno: What?
Jay Turner: How smart you are.


--Sterling Hayden (as ) in Gun Battle at Monterey

[last lines]
Last Driver: [stops car to ask for directions] Say, officer.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Yeah?
Last Driver: Could you tell me the way to Three Rivers?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Ah, you go down to the first intersection, you turn left, it's about sixty miles.
Last Driver: Thanks. What town in this?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Suddenly.
Last Driver: Suddenly what?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: No, that's the name.
Last Driver: That's a funny name for a town.
[begins to drive away]
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Oh, I don't know. I don't know about that.


--Sterling Hayden (as ) in Suddenly

[last lines]
Fay: Johnny, you've got to run!
Johnny Clay: Eh, what's the difference?


--Sterling Hayden (as Johnny Clay) in The Killing

Dix Handley: Why don't you quit cryin' and get me some bourbon?


--Sterling Hayden (as Dix Handley) in The Asphalt Jungle