Lt. Pat Murphy: Mike, why don't you tell us what you know? Then step aside like a nice fella and let us do our job.
Mike Hammer: What's in it for me?


--Ralph Meeker (as Mike Hammer) in Kiss Me Deadly

Mike Hammer: An ordinary little girl gets killed and it rings bells all the way to Washington. There's gotta be a pitch... I picked up a girl. If she hadn't gotten in my way, I wouldn't have stopped. She must be connected with somethin' big.


--Ralph Meeker (as Mike Hammer) in Kiss Me Deadly

Mike Hammer: So you're a fugitive from the laughing house.


--Ralph Meeker (as Mike Hammer) in Kiss Me Deadly

Mike Hammer: What's this all about? I'll make a quick guess. You were out with some guy who thought "no" was a three-letter word. I should have thrown you off that cliff back there. I might still do it. Where are ya headed?
Christina Bailey: Los Angeles. Drop me off at the first bus stop.
Mike Hammer: Do you always go around with no clothes on?


--Ralph Meeker (as Mike Hammer) in Kiss Me Deadly

Mike: Don't try to jump again!


--Ralph Meeker (as Mike) in Something Wild

Mike: Why don't you stay here?
Mary Ann Robinson: I have to go to work tomorrow.
Mike: How much do you make at the Five and Ten?
Mary Ann Robinson: Enough for me. Let me go now.
Mike: Well, I'll pay you whatever you make at the Five and Ten and you can stay here. It won't cost you anything.
Mary Ann Robinson: [yelling] Why do you want me to stay here?
Mike: If it weren't for me you'd be at the bottom of the river!
[pause]
Mike: You can't complain.


--Ralph Meeker (as Mike) in Something Wild

Mike: You're getting thinner all the time. You look like a ghost.
Mary Ann Robinson: If I went out sometimes I'd be less pale.
Mike: Sometimes I think you're hopeless.


--Ralph Meeker (as Mike) in Something Wild

Roy Anderson: [Observing how hard it will be to get Vandergroat off the mountain] Looks like you got a real interestin' problem in logistics.


--Ralph Meeker (as Roy Anderson) in The Naked Spur

Velda: Christina Georgina Rossetti. Poetess, English, born 1830, died 1894. Your Christina was being held in that hospital for interrogation... What's the point of all this, if it's any of my business?
Mike Hammer: She told me if I dropped her off at the bus station, I could forget her. But if she didn't make it, she said, "Remember me."
Velda: So, remember her. She's dead. But I'm not dead. Hey, remember me?
Mike Hammer: Yeah. I remember you from somewhere.


--Ralph Meeker (as Mike Hammer) in Kiss Me Deadly

Mary Ann Robinson: [incredulous that Mike has just proposed to her] You don't know who I am!
Mike: [perfectly sincere] Who are you?


--Ralph Meeker (as Mike) in Something Wild