Ray Milland Movie Quotes & Lines – 34 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

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1 Two bottles of rye. -What brand? -You know what brand, Mr. Brophy. The cheapest. None of that twelve year old, aged-in-the-wood chichi. Not for me. Liquor is all one, anyway.

As Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

2 You know the circle is the perfect geometric figure. No end, no beginning...

As Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

3 The leper is back. Hide your liquor.

As Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

4 It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys. Yes. But what does it do to my mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly, I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent, supremely competent.

As Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

5 Is it dawn or dusk? That's a terrifying problem, Nat. Because if it's dawn, you're dead. The bars are closed and the liquor stores don't open till nine o'clock, and you can't last till nine o'clock.

As Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

6 Or it maybe Sunday. That's the worst. No liquor stores at all. And you guys wouldn't open a bar, not until one o'clock. Why? Why, Nat? -Because we gotta go to church once in a while. That's why. -Yeah, when a guy needs it most.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam; Howard Da Silva as Nat in The Lost Weekend (1945)

7 That's right, I did have two bottles, didn't I? I hid one of them. I've still got it. I'm a capitalist, Nat! I've got untapped reserves. I'm rich!

As Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

8 There is now being presented at a theatre on Forty-Fourth Street, the uncut version of Hamlet. Now, I see us as setting out for that. Do you know Hamlet? -I know Forty-fourth Street.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam; Doris Dowling as Gloria in The Lost Weekend (1945)

9 Dinner later, I think. Nothing before. I want you to always see Shakespeare on an empty stomach. -Not even a pretzel?

Ray Milland as Don Birnam; Doris Dowling as Gloria in The Lost Weekend (1945)

10 Do you know what I'm going to call my novel? The Bottle...that's all. Very simply, The Bottle. I've got it all here in my mind. Let me tell you the first chapter.

As Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

Ray Milland Movie Quotes & Lines – 34 Classics (+ Audio)

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