Lorne Warfield:
You ever kill a man?
Owen Forbes: Why?
Lorne Warfield: Well, suppose before this thing is over, you have to kill a few Indians?
Owen Forbes: I'll manage. It's not the same thing as men gunning each other down in the middle of the street.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Owen Forbes) in Day of the Evil Gun
Owen Forbes: Why?
Lorne Warfield: Well, suppose before this thing is over, you have to kill a few Indians?
Owen Forbes: I'll manage. It's not the same thing as men gunning each other down in the middle of the street.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Owen Forbes) in Day of the Evil Gun
Glyn McLyntock:
I thought we were out of Cheyenne country. What do you make of that?
Emerson Cole: Shoshoni. Real mean when they want to be. Lately, they want to be.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Emerson Cole) in Bend of the River
Emerson Cole: Shoshoni. Real mean when they want to be. Lately, they want to be.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Emerson Cole) in Bend of the River
Wyatt Earp:
Say, you're the doctor around here. How come I always have to perform all the complicated operations?
Doc Holliday: You know I am a dentist, not a doctor. Wait until somebody shoot him in the teeth.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Doc Holliday) in Cheyenne Autumn
Doc Holliday: You know I am a dentist, not a doctor. Wait until somebody shoot him in the teeth.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Doc Holliday) in Cheyenne Autumn
David Blake:
[Blake and Castle are discussing the fund-raising for Angel Chavez's defense fund] Look, it's not only the way you are raising the money, it's the people that are raising it.The All Peoples Party. Barney, half of them are a bunch of Communists, you know that!
Bernard 'Barney' Castle: I'd say sixty percent, and some of the others are cheating the Party out if its dues.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Bernard 'Barney' Castle) in Trial
Bernard 'Barney' Castle: I'd say sixty percent, and some of the others are cheating the Party out if its dues.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Bernard 'Barney' Castle) in Trial
Alan Palmer:
Stop it, Jane! If we don't report this, it's a felony. It's the same as stealing. It's a blind alley with a big barred gate at the end!
--Arthur Kennedy (as Alan Palmer) in Too Late for Tears
--Arthur Kennedy (as Alan Palmer) in Too Late for Tears
Bart Hunter:
As soon as Molly is found - and I'm sure she will be - I suggest you vacate these rooms as swiftly as possible.
Helen Jorgenson: [incredulously] Don't tell me that you're on their side!
Bart Hunter: Let's merely say that I'm not on yours.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Bart Hunter) in A Summer Place
Helen Jorgenson: [incredulously] Don't tell me that you're on their side!
Bart Hunter: Let's merely say that I'm not on yours.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Bart Hunter) in A Summer Place
Dr. Henry Adams:
I'd hate like hell to donate you to a war that doesn't even concern us. It's bad enough to die for your own country!
--Arthur Kennedy (as Dr. Adams) in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
--Arthur Kennedy (as Dr. Adams) in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Dr. Henry Adams:
Well, Nick, what's a young man's reality is just an older man's dream. Old men dream dreams. Young men see visions.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Dr. Adams) in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
--Arthur Kennedy (as Dr. Adams) in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Emerson Cole:
Never mix marriage with gambling. Percentage is all against it.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Emerson Cole) in Bend of the River
--Arthur Kennedy (as Emerson Cole) in Bend of the River
Jim Lefferts:
You look like a man who could use a drink.
Elmer Gantry: You know somethin', Jim? There oughta be a law against drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts: There is. Prohibition.
Elmer Gantry: That's against sellin', not drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts: Amen.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Jim Lefferts) in Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry: You know somethin', Jim? There oughta be a law against drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts: There is. Prohibition.
Elmer Gantry: That's against sellin', not drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts: Amen.
--Arthur Kennedy (as Jim Lefferts) in Elmer Gantry
