Criss Cross (1949) Quotes with Sound Clips

Criss Cross (1949) Quotes with Sound Clips

Listen to memorable quotes from the classic 1949 film noir Criss Cross, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Burt Lancaster (Steve Thompson), Yvonne De Carlo (Anna), Dan Duryea (Slim Dundee)

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1 A job. -A job? Well, why come to me? -'Cause you're the only crooks I know.

— Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster), Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea)

2 Every place you go, you see her face. Half the girls you pass are her. Did it ever happen to you?

— Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster)

3 My wife? She's at the beach. We took a place down at Balboa. See, she thinks she's run-down, needs a change. Actually, she likes to take sunbaths. All women are nuts about gettin' sunburned. But I don't care. I indulge her. I'm not picayune.

4 Now, what is this anyway? I came home to settle down, not to go ice-skating. Leave me alone. All I wanna do is lie around the house and read the paper.

— Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster)

5 A man eats an apple. He gets a piece of the core stuck between his teeth, you know? He tries to work it out with some cellophane off a cigarette pack. What happens? The cellophane gets stuck in there too.

— Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster)

6 Is that polite? Is it hospitable?

— Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea)

7 Look, Mister, I'm sorry you lost at the races. I know what it's like myself, but, well, you shouldn't ought to bet if you can't afford to lose.

8 Now my wife, I don't know how much she spends on the house. She's extravagant. Beach in the summertime, uses up all my razor blades shaving her legs. I don't get sore. She's for me. I love that kid.

9 She's all right. She's just young. -In some ways, she knows more than Einstein.

— Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster)

10 That's the trouble with you. It always was, from the beginning. You just don't know what kind of a world it is. -Well, I'll know better next time.

— Anna (Yvonne De Carlo), Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster)

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