Max Monetti:
Pa, have you read the new banking act?
Gino Monetti: I don't even read the old one. Why?
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in House of Strangers
Gino Monetti: I don't even read the old one. Why?
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in House of Strangers
Walter Neff:
What do the police figure?
Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They're satisfied. It's not their dough.
--Edward G. Robinson (as Barton Keyes) in Double Indemnity
Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They're satisfied. It's not their dough.
--Edward G. Robinson (as Barton Keyes) in Double Indemnity
Louise 'Fluff' Phillips:
Nick, you don't notice a lot of things. You're so wrapped up in the game that, well, you forget people have... have feelings and are human.
Nick 'Nicky' Donati: Well, there isn't any room for feelings in this game. A fighter's a machine, not a human being.
--Edward G. Robinson (as Nick 'Nicky' Donati) in Kid Galahad
Nick 'Nicky' Donati: Well, there isn't any room for feelings in this game. A fighter's a machine, not a human being.
--Edward G. Robinson (as Nick 'Nicky' Donati) in Kid Galahad
Prospector:
[Describing finding the dead body] No, just one look at that face, and I got out of there as fast as I could!
Con Man: [laughs] Now, what makes people so jittery about the dead? Why, some of my best friends are corpses... the only ones I can trust! Oh, sure, they stink a little but no more than a few alive ones that I know.
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in The Outrage
Con Man: [laughs] Now, what makes people so jittery about the dead? Why, some of my best friends are corpses... the only ones I can trust! Oh, sure, they stink a little but no more than a few alive ones that I know.
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in The Outrage
Prospector:
Shut up, you! This is a preacher standing here.
Con Man: Preacher? It can't be! He woke me up. They usually put me to sleep.
Prospector: [to the Preacher] Don't pay him no mind.
Preacher: Who is he?
Prospector: He's a con man... a swindler... an old scalawag.
Con Man: How else can a man live to be old nowadays?
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in The Outrage
Con Man: Preacher? It can't be! He woke me up. They usually put me to sleep.
Prospector: [to the Preacher] Don't pay him no mind.
Preacher: Who is he?
Prospector: He's a con man... a swindler... an old scalawag.
Con Man: How else can a man live to be old nowadays?
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in The Outrage
Prospector:
There was a trial.
Con Man: What happened?
Prospector: A man was murdered.
Con Man: Just one? A slow day!
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in The Outrage
Con Man: What happened?
Prospector: A man was murdered.
Con Man: Just one? A slow day!
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in The Outrage
Shirley Day:
[Getting ready to leave for the dance hall in a tight-fitting dress] Well, Big Boy, what do I look like now?
John Allen: [Contemptuously] Just like what you are!
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in Two Seconds
John Allen: [Contemptuously] Just like what you are!
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in Two Seconds
Shooter:
Well, Lancey, are we all set for Monday night?
Lancey Howard: Uh-huh.
Shooter: I can get Lady Fingers to come.
Lancey Howard: Lady Fingers? I haven't seen that old bitch - oh, it must be at least ten years;long enough to think of her almost fondly.
--Edward G. Robinson (as Lancey Howard) in The Cincinnati Kid
Lancey Howard: Uh-huh.
Shooter: I can get Lady Fingers to come.
Lancey Howard: Lady Fingers? I haven't seen that old bitch - oh, it must be at least ten years;long enough to think of her almost fondly.
--Edward G. Robinson (as Lancey Howard) in The Cincinnati Kid
Daphne Flowers:
Listen here, you big heel, you've left me flat for over a week!
Damon Welles: Well, that's the way i found you!
Daphne Flowers: What were you doing in Philadelpia on Monday?
Damon Welles: I never go to Philadelphia!
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in The Man with Two Faces
Damon Welles: Well, that's the way i found you!
Daphne Flowers: What were you doing in Philadelpia on Monday?
Damon Welles: I never go to Philadelphia!
--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in The Man with Two Faces
Gaye Dawn:
[finishes her song and goes over to the bar] Give me that drink now, Johnny.
Johnny Rocco: No.
Gaye Dawn: Johnny!
Johnny Rocco: [louder] No.
Gaye Dawn: But you promised!
Johnny Rocco: So what?
Gaye Dawn: You said that...
Johnny Rocco: But you were rotten.
--Edward G. Robinson (as Johnny Rocco) in Key Largo
Johnny Rocco: No.
Gaye Dawn: Johnny!
Johnny Rocco: [louder] No.
Gaye Dawn: But you promised!
Johnny Rocco: So what?
Gaye Dawn: You said that...
Johnny Rocco: But you were rotten.
--Edward G. Robinson (as Johnny Rocco) in Key Largo
