[last lines]
Elias Wakefield: No, Hannah, don't leave us. We're goin' to Texas. We're goin' to live it bold.


--Burt Lancaster (as Elias Wakefield) in The Kentuckian

Gallagher: It'll only make things tougher for everybody else.
Joe Collins: I don't care about everybody else.
Gallagher: That's cemetery talk.
Joe Collins: Why not, we're buried, ain't we? Only thing is, we ain't dead.


--Burt Lancaster (as Joe Collins) in Brute Force

[first lines]
Benjamin Trane: Howdy. You an American?
Joe Erin: You interested in me or the horses?


--Burt Lancaster (as Joe Erin) in Vera Cruz

Sgt. Milton Warden: Rose, do you know why I like to have you serve me beer? So as I can watch you when you walk away.


--Burt Lancaster (as Sgt. Milton Warden) in From Here to Eternity

Karen Holmes: I never knew it could be like this! Nobody ever kissed me the way you do.
Sergeant Milton Warden: Nobody?
Karen Holmes: No, nobody.

Sergeant Milton Warden: Not even one? Out of all the men you've been kissed by?
Karen Holmes: Now that'd take some figuring. How many men do you think there've been?
Sergeant Milton Warden: I wouldn't know. Can't you give me a rough estimate?
Karen Holmes: Not without an adding machine. Do you have the adding machine with you?
Sergeant Milton Warden: I forgot to bring it.


--Burt Lancaster (as Sgt. Milton Warden) in From Here to Eternity