The Big Knife (1955) Quotes with Sound Clips

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Quotes from the movie The Big Knife (1955), based on the 1949 play by Clifford Odets, featuring short sound clips with voice.

Actors: Jack Palance (Charlie Castle), Ida Lupino (Marion Castle), Jean Hagen (Connie Bliss)

3 more actors

, Rod Steiger (Stanley Shriner Hoff), Shelley Winters (Dixie Evans), Ilka Chase (Patty Benedict)

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11 Feed her some martinis. That'll keep her quiet. -Suppose they don't? -They will. The gin's doctored.

12 Profession: movie star. Problem: survival.

13 I want my gossip from the horse's mouth, not his tail.

— Patty Benedict (Ilka Chase)

14 When I was 16, my family threw me out of the house. That makes you very nervous. I mean, a thing like that makes you very touchy. They just kind of gave me up for lost.

— Dixie Evans (Shelley Winters)

15 It's too late for that. This girl is without the fundamentals of an education and understanding.

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

16 Come on, now, be yourself. -That's another local remark, which means, Be just like me, don't be yourself.

— Marion Castle (Ida Lupino)

17 I see a raw youth filled with that special vitality of talent.

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

18 I think I'll have some Tequila. Tequila always makes me frisky.

— Connie Bliss (Jean Hagen)

19 I'll keep the pen. It's my only proof that the war is over or that it was ever fought.

— Charlie Castle (Jack Palance)

20 Knocked her down and kicked her black and blue. May have broken one of her ribs. They taped her up in the infirmary. Our story is that the dog, one of those great big monsters, yanked on the leash and threw her to the floor.

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