Martin: [Noticing how Meng is eyeing up the legs of a pretty girl] Who's that citizen?
Michael Ward: He's my next door neighbor.
Martin: He looks as though his mind could stand a little laundering.


--Cliff Clark (as ) in Stranger on the Third Floor

Martin: [Referring to Joe Briggs' attorney] I wouldn't let him defend me if it was for stealing an apple.


--Cliff Clark (as ) in Stranger on the Third Floor

Ellen Grant: I didn't think they'd pour the cement so fast.
Construction Foreman Roberts: Fast and hard, Miss Grant.


--Cliff Clark (as ) in Miss Grant Takes Richmond

Michael Ward: [Referrig to Meng] Did you ever want to kill a man?
Martin: [Patronizingly] My son, there's murder in every intelligent man's heart.
Michael Ward: He's no man. He's a worm - the kind you ought to jump on with heavy boots.
Martin: You'll have to do an awful lot of jumping. The earth is covered with them.
Michael Ward: [Angrily] It'd be a real pleasure to cut his throat!
Martin: [Noticing his dinner knife] Hey, you're not kidding. Put down that knife!


--Cliff Clark (as ) in Stranger on the Third Floor