J.J. Hunsecker:
I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic.
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
J.J. Hunsecker:
Look, Manny, you rode in here on the Senator's shirt tails, so shut your mouth!
Sen. Harvey Walker: Now, come, J.J., that's a little too harsh. Anyone seems fair game for you tonight.
J.J. Hunsecker: This man is not for you, Harvey, and you shouldn't be seen with him in public. Because that's another part of a press agent's life - he digs up scandal among prominent men and shovels it thin among columnists who give him space.
Sen. Harvey Walker: There is some allusion here that escapes me...
J.J. Hunsecker: We're friends, Harvey - we go as far back as when you were a fresh kid Congressman, don't we?
Sen. Harvey Walker: Why does everything you say sound like a threat?
J.J. Hunsecker: Maybe it's a mannerism - because I don't threaten friends, Harvey. But why furnish your enemies with ammunition? You're a family man. Someday, with God willing, you may wanna be President. Now here you are, Harvey, out in the open where any hep person knows that this one...
[points at Manny Davis]
J.J. Hunsecker: [points at Linda James] ... is toting THAT one...
J.J. Hunsecker: [points at Senator] around for you.
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
Sen. Harvey Walker: Now, come, J.J., that's a little too harsh. Anyone seems fair game for you tonight.
J.J. Hunsecker: This man is not for you, Harvey, and you shouldn't be seen with him in public. Because that's another part of a press agent's life - he digs up scandal among prominent men and shovels it thin among columnists who give him space.
Sen. Harvey Walker: There is some allusion here that escapes me...
J.J. Hunsecker: We're friends, Harvey - we go as far back as when you were a fresh kid Congressman, don't we?
Sen. Harvey Walker: Why does everything you say sound like a threat?
J.J. Hunsecker: Maybe it's a mannerism - because I don't threaten friends, Harvey. But why furnish your enemies with ammunition? You're a family man. Someday, with God willing, you may wanna be President. Now here you are, Harvey, out in the open where any hep person knows that this one...
[points at Manny Davis]
J.J. Hunsecker: [points at Linda James] ... is toting THAT one...
J.J. Hunsecker: [points at Senator] around for you.
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
J.J. Hunsecker:
Now don't kid a kidder.
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
J.J. Hunsecker:
President? My big toe would make a better President!
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
J.J. Hunsecker:
Sidney, conjugate me a verb. For instance, "to promise."
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
J.J. Hunsecker:
Sidney, this syrup you're giving out with... you pour over waffles, not J.J. Hunsecker.
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
J.J. Hunsecker:
Son, I don't relish shooting a mosquito with an elephant gun, so why don't you just shuffle along?
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
J.J. Hunsecker:
Well son, it looks like we have to call this game on account of darkness.
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
J.J. Hunsecker:
You're dead, son. Get yourself buried.
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
--Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker) in Sweet Smell of Success
Jim Thorpe:
Which one of you guys is Lacey?
Ed Lacey, Sportswriter Punched by Thorpe: I'm Lacey.
Jim Thorpe: Well I'm Thorpe!
[punches Lacey]
--Burt Lancaster (as Jim Thorpe) in Jim Thorpe -- All-American
Ed Lacey, Sportswriter Punched by Thorpe: I'm Lacey.
Jim Thorpe: Well I'm Thorpe!
[punches Lacey]
--Burt Lancaster (as Jim Thorpe) in Jim Thorpe -- All-American
