Austin Pendleton Movie Quotes & Lines – 17 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

Find and rate the best quotes by Austin Pendleton, selected from famous or less known movies, as rated by our community, featuring short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

1 Well, I don't know how you feel about Wall Street, Doctor, but I mailed this shoebox to JP Morgan with a time bomb in it. And it came back because of insufficient postage. Blew the whole roof off my boarding house.

As Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

2 Was your dinner okay? -It was fine, but they forgot the ketchup. -That's just too bad. -In here.

Vincent Gardenia as Sheriff "Honest Pete" Hartman; Austin Pendleton as Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

3 They're gonna hang me. -And how do you feel about that? -Well, to tell the truth, I'll be glad to get out of that cell. It's so drafty.

As Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

4 I had a perfectly normal childhood. -I see. You wanted to kill your father and sleep with your mother.

As Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

5 Mm... Just the way I like it: shaken but not stirred.

As Dr. Howard Marner in Short Circuit (1986)

6 Oh my! Well, one thing we can't control is the weather. The man upstairs is still in charge of that department.

As Dr. Howard Marner in Short Circuit (1986)

7 What if it goes and melts down a bus load of nuns? How would you like to write the headline on that? -Nun soup? -Ben!

As Ben Jabituya in Short Circuit (1986)

8 I would never abuse myself or anybody else. I love people, I love all people.

As Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

9 I wrote out a will and I gave it to the warden. I'm leaving everything to you. A pile of books. Maybe you can get something for them second hand. And a picture of my mother, in a silver frame. And a souvenir pillow from Atlantic City.

As Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

10 Goodbye. -Tell Mollie not to cry. Those 13 steps, they don't lead up to the gallows. They lead up to the stars.

As Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)