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Knock on Any Door (1949) Quotes with Sound Clips

Knock on Any Door posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1949 film noir Knock on Any Door, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Andrew Morton), John Derek (Nick Romano)

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1 Hello, young men. Welcome. Come in and buy. Buy or sell. Take or put.

2 No! Nothing's gonna slow me down. From here on in, I travel in a hurry. What I used to say still goes. Live fast, die young... And have a good-looking corpse.

— Nick Romano (John Derek)

3 I ask mercy from this court. I ask this so that for us who walk free, for all of us, there may be some mercy.

— Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart)

4 I drink, I gamble, I steal! That's how I live!

— Nick Romano (John Derek)

5 I never gave anybody anything before. It feels... good.

— Nick Romano (John Derek)

6 I'm gonna retire. Where's Arabia? -I don't know. I haven't got my atlas.

— Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart)

7 Want to talk to you back there. -Why not? Talk is cheap. -And he's got plenty of cheap talk.

8 Boy, what a life. You and your friends sure know how to live. -Yeah. -Maybe I don't, huh?

— Nick Romano (John Derek)

9 Count it. 30 bucks... you're paid in full. -Well, that's great. You want a receipt? Chances are, you jackrolled some other poor sucker to get it. Did you? -I did not. I won it absolutely fair in a crap game.

— Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart), Nick Romano (John Derek)

10 Miss America, 1913. Weighs 2 pounds less than a grand piano.

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