Inge Koerner:
I'm Inga Koerner. I write for the Globus, a German news weekly.
Maj. Steve Garrett: Yes, I've heard of it.
Inge Koerner: Oh, have you?
Maj. Steve Garrett: I smelled it! You work for a rotten sheet, lady!
--Kirk Douglas (as ) in Town Without Pity
Maj. Steve Garrett: Yes, I've heard of it.
Inge Koerner: Oh, have you?
Maj. Steve Garrett: I smelled it! You work for a rotten sheet, lady!
--Kirk Douglas (as ) in Town Without Pity
Tigranes Levantus:
If you looked into a magic crystal, you saw your army destroyed and yourself dead. If you saw that in the future, as I'm sure you're seeing it now, would you continue to fight?
Spartacus: Yes.
Tigranes Levantus: Knowing that you must lose?
Spartacus: Knowing we can. All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things.
Tigranes Levantus: They both lose life.
Spartacus: When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
--Kirk Douglas (as Spartacus) in Spartacus
Spartacus: Yes.
Tigranes Levantus: Knowing that you must lose?
Spartacus: Knowing we can. All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things.
Tigranes Levantus: They both lose life.
Spartacus: When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
--Kirk Douglas (as Spartacus) in Spartacus
Mr. Manleigh:
Sadie may not realize it, but whether or not she thinks she's listening, she's being penetrated.
George Phipps: Good thing she didn't hear you say that.
--Kirk Douglas (as George Phipps) in A Letter to Three Wives
George Phipps: Good thing she didn't hear you say that.
--Kirk Douglas (as George Phipps) in A Letter to Three Wives
Harper House Desk Clerk:
[indignantly] You're breakin' the law!
Marshal Matt Morgan: [angrily] I AM the law!
--Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Matt Morgan) in Last Train from Gun Hill
Marshal Matt Morgan: [angrily] I AM the law!
--Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Matt Morgan) in Last Train from Gun Hill
Grey Wolf:
There can be no friendship between Red Man and White. The fight is to the end. Ride back to your people. There is no room for you here.
Johnny Hawks: You've grown a big mouth since I saw you last, Grey Wolf, but I didn't come here to talk to a big mouth. I've come to talk to a big man.
--Kirk Douglas (as ) in The Indian Fighter
Johnny Hawks: You've grown a big mouth since I saw you last, Grey Wolf, but I didn't come here to talk to a big mouth. I've come to talk to a big man.
--Kirk Douglas (as ) in The Indian Fighter
Jo Jordan:
Can I lend you some money?
Rick Martin: Wouldn't know what to do with it.
--Kirk Douglas (as Rick Martin) in Young Man with a Horn
Rick Martin: Wouldn't know what to do with it.
--Kirk Douglas (as Rick Martin) in Young Man with a Horn
Rick Belden, Craig's Son:
Don't take no guts to kill a man when he's cuffed!
Marshal Matt Morgan: Takes guts not to. Be too easy on ya. You'd die too quick. I know an old man who'd like to kill you, Belden - the Indian way: slow. That's how I'm gonna do it: slow - but the white man's way. First you stand trial. That takes a fair amount of time, and you'll do a lot of sweating! Then they'll sentence ya. I never seen a man who didn't get sick to his stomach when he heard the kind of sentence you'll draw. After that you'll sit in a cell and wait, maybe for months, thinking how that rope will feel around your neck. Then they'll come around, some cold morning, just before sun-up. They'll tie your arms behind you. You'll start blubbering, kicking, yelling for help. But it won't do you any good. They'll drag you out in the yard, heave you up on that platform, fix that rope around your neck and leave you out there all alone with a big black hood over your eyes. You know the last sound you hear? Kind of a thump when they kick the trapdoor catch - and down you go. You'll hit the end of that rope like a sack of potatoes, all dead weight. It'll be white hot around your neck and your Adam's Apple will turn to mush. You'll fight for your breath, but you haven't got any breath. Your brain will begin to boil. You'll scream and holler! But nobody'll hear you. You'll hear it. But nobody else. Finally you're just swingin' there - all alone and dead.
--Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Matt Morgan) in Last Train from Gun Hill
Marshal Matt Morgan: Takes guts not to. Be too easy on ya. You'd die too quick. I know an old man who'd like to kill you, Belden - the Indian way: slow. That's how I'm gonna do it: slow - but the white man's way. First you stand trial. That takes a fair amount of time, and you'll do a lot of sweating! Then they'll sentence ya. I never seen a man who didn't get sick to his stomach when he heard the kind of sentence you'll draw. After that you'll sit in a cell and wait, maybe for months, thinking how that rope will feel around your neck. Then they'll come around, some cold morning, just before sun-up. They'll tie your arms behind you. You'll start blubbering, kicking, yelling for help. But it won't do you any good. They'll drag you out in the yard, heave you up on that platform, fix that rope around your neck and leave you out there all alone with a big black hood over your eyes. You know the last sound you hear? Kind of a thump when they kick the trapdoor catch - and down you go. You'll hit the end of that rope like a sack of potatoes, all dead weight. It'll be white hot around your neck and your Adam's Apple will turn to mush. You'll fight for your breath, but you haven't got any breath. Your brain will begin to boil. You'll scream and holler! But nobody'll hear you. You'll hear it. But nobody else. Finally you're just swingin' there - all alone and dead.
--Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Matt Morgan) in Last Train from Gun Hill
Gun Hill Sheriff Bartlett:
Far as I'm concerned, you can go out on the street and get yourself killed anytime you want to, but, you know something, 40 years from now the weeds'll grow just as pretty on my grave as they will on yours. Nobody'll even remember that I was yellow and you died like a fool. That's your long view, son. Always take the long view.
Marshal Matt Morgan: I've got two warrants, and I'm gonna serve them. I'm leavin' town with two men, and the long view is this: don't try to stop me!
--Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Matt Morgan) in Last Train from Gun Hill
Marshal Matt Morgan: I've got two warrants, and I'm gonna serve them. I'm leavin' town with two men, and the long view is this: don't try to stop me!
--Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Matt Morgan) in Last Train from Gun Hill
Jump Sergeant:
What's the matter, soldier? Haven't you ever jumped before?
Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: No-OOOOOOOHHHHHHHhhhhhhh!
--Kirk Douglas (as Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus) in Cast a Giant Shadow
Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: No-OOOOOOOHHHHHHHhhhhhhh!
--Kirk Douglas (as Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus) in Cast a Giant Shadow
Conseil:
All those men. They didn't even have a chance.
Ned Land: They were sailors, same as me. Slaughtered by that monster you're trying to make friends with.
Conseil: Ned, don't...
Ned Land: I don't know about you, Professor, but I feel like a knife that's just stabbed a friend in the back.
--Kirk Douglas (as Ned Land) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Ned Land: They were sailors, same as me. Slaughtered by that monster you're trying to make friends with.
Conseil: Ned, don't...
Ned Land: I don't know about you, Professor, but I feel like a knife that's just stabbed a friend in the back.
--Kirk Douglas (as Ned Land) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
