Quotes with Sound Clips from The Big Knife (1955) - Page 6

The Big Knife (1955) Quotes with Sound Clips - page 6

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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51 I need your physical presence on the lot. I need your body, not your goodwill.

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

52 I'm homesick for the East, the four seasons.

53 Just what do you believe in? What? -Fun, not gloomy thoughts. Perfume and staying young, and goodies of every sort and description, and secrets and locked doors, and enjoying the wildest things that come into my mind.

— Connie Bliss (Jean Hagen)

54 Shut up! Let me talk. Don't push me back into my usual position of self-justification.

— Charlie Castle (Jack Palance)

55 The wife of a man in your position should have the regard and should have the respect to help him advance his career. Don't you think?

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

56 This is Bel Air. The lush, luxurious retreat of the wealthy and powerful.

57 This man buries himself with his mouth.

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

58 Who are you, with your dirty, unmanicured fingernails?

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

59 You swat the fly on my nose with a hammer! Throw it away.

60 You're a special, idealistic type. The only thing is, business and idealism, they don't mix. It's oil and water.

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