The Big Knife (1955) Quotes with Sound Clips

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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1 Why do I have to listen to this miserable boy? A man like myself, who's wined and dined with presidents and kings?

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

2 I drank a light scotch and soda, and I began to cry. And I haven't cried like that since I was a boy.

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

3 If I take one more drink, I'll see a snake.

— Dixie Evans (Shelley Winters)

4 Look at him. Get his act. He's trying to play the crocodile. And what is he? A little lizard under a rock.

— Charlie Castle (Jack Palance)

5 Naive, ain't I? -Yes, but it's one of your best qualities.

— Charlie Castle (Jack Palance)

6 A man can live only one of two ways, either married or like a bachelor. What you want is the best of both! And that's not a marriage, not in my book.

— Marion Castle (Ida Lupino)

7 A woman with six martinis can ruin a city.

8 Don't tell me you've got Billy, because he still eats a grape in four bites.

— Charlie Castle (Jack Palance)

9 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)

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

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

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