45 Quotes by James M. Cain (Sound Clips) - page 2

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11 Where would the living room be? -In there, but they keep the liquor locked up. -It's all right. I always carry my own keys.

Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity

12 There's a speed limit in this state. 45 miles an hour. -How fast was I going, officer? - I'd say around 90.

Quote from Double Indemnity

13 How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity

14 Every time one of these phonies comes along, it ties knots in my stomach. I can't eat.

Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes in Double Indemnity

15 What's the matter, don't you know how to open the door? Just put your hand on the knob, turn it to the left. Now pull it toward you. That's the boy.

Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes in Double Indemnity

16 What kind of an outfit is this, anyway? Are we an insurance company, or just a bunch of dimwitted amateurs to write a policy on a mug like that?

Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes in Double Indemnity

17 It's the company. It's the way they do things. The way they don't do things. The way they'll write anything just to get it down on the sales sheet.

Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes in Double Indemnity

18 Well, I get darn sick of trying to pick up after a gang of fast-talking salesmen dumb enough to sell life insurance to a guy who sleeps in the same bed with four rattlesnakes.

Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes in Double Indemnity

19 He has a lot on his mind. He doesn't seem to want to listen to anything except maybe a baseball game on the radio.

Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity

20 What'd you think I was, anyway? A guy that walks into a good looking dame's front parlor and says: Good afternoon, I sell accident insurance on husbands. You got one that's been around too long? One you'd like to turn into a little hard cash?

Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity

45 Quotes by James M. Cain (Sound Clips) - page 2

11 Where would the living room be? -In there, but they keep the liquor locked up. -It's all right. I always carry my own keys.

12 There's a speed limit in this state. 45 miles an hour. -How fast was I going, officer? - I'd say around 90.

13 How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

14 Every time one of these phonies comes along, it ties knots in my stomach. I can't eat.

15 What's the matter, don't you know how to open the door? Just put your hand on the knob, turn it to the left. Now pull it toward you. That's the boy.

16 What kind of an outfit is this, anyway? Are we an insurance company, or just a bunch of dimwitted amateurs to write a policy on a mug like that?

17 It's the company. It's the way they do things. The way they don't do things. The way they'll write anything just to get it down on the sales sheet.

18 Well, I get darn sick of trying to pick up after a gang of fast-talking salesmen dumb enough to sell life insurance to a guy who sleeps in the same bed with four rattlesnakes.

19 He has a lot on his mind. He doesn't seem to want to listen to anything except maybe a baseball game on the radio.

20 What'd you think I was, anyway? A guy that walks into a good looking dame's front parlor and says: Good afternoon, I sell accident insurance on husbands. You got one that's been around too long? One you'd like to turn into a little hard cash?

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