Phyllis: Neff is the name, isn't it?
Walter Neff: Yeah. Two "F"s, like in Philadelphia, if you know the story.
Phyllis: What story?
Walter Neff: The Philadelphia Story.


--Fred MacMurray (as Walter Neff) in Double Indemnity

Phyllis: We're both rotten.
Walter Neff: Only you're a little more rotten.


--Fred MacMurray (as Walter Neff) in Double Indemnity

Gail Allen: I suppose you're the kind of man that thinks a woman's place is in the home.
Bill 'Willie' Burnett: Well, isn't it?


--Fred MacMurray (as ) in Honeymoon in Bali

Gail Allen: Well... there aren't that many white women there, are there?
Bill 'Willie' Burnett: Not many.
Gail Allen: But a lot of Balinese girls...
Bill 'Willie' Burnett: Oh, a lot of them.
Gail Allen: A man like you, any man I mean, do you... er... I mean, do you marry those girls?
Bill 'Willie' Burnett: [Shakes his head] No.
Gail Allen: Oh. I... I... I suppose some of the men... I mean I suppose, er, I mean...
Bill 'Willie' Burnett: Well, you said you've seen the pictures.
Gail Allen: Do *you* have a girl out there?
Bill 'Willie' Burnett: Five.
Gail Allen: Five?
Bill 'Willie' Burnett: Five. One does the cooking, one keeps the house clean, one takes care of my clothes and one dances for me.
Gail Allen: But that's only four.
Bill 'Willie' Burnett: [Raises eyebrows and nods knowingly]


--Fred MacMurray (as ) in Honeymoon in Bali

The Stranger: Jack Wright? For some reason or other that name sounds familiar.
Jack Wright: Yeah, it should. I'm the local hero.
The Stranger: You don't say.
Jack Wright: You're looking at the man who shot the notorious Alvin Dennis from a distance of half a mile... with a slingshot.


--Fred MacMurray (as ) in At Gunpoint

Barton Keyes: Now that's enough out of you, Walter. Now get outta here before I throw my desk at you.
[looks in his pocket for a match]
Walter Neff: [takes a match of his own and lights Keyes' cigar] I love you, too.
[voiceover]
Walter Neff: I really did, too, you old crab. Always yelling your head off, always sore at everybody. You never fooled me with your song and dance, not for a second. I kinda always knew that behind all the cigar ashes on your vest was a heart as big as a house.


--Fred MacMurray (as Walter Neff) in Double Indemnity

Katherine Grant: Oh, you---you coward! Kissing a woman!
Jim Ryan: What am I supposed to kiss?


--Fred MacMurray (as ) in No Time for Love

Sheriff Barney Wiley: I wouldn't want to be singled out as the man who hanged Rudy.
Judge James Edward Scott: That seems to be a distinction they reserve for me.


--Fred MacMurray (as ) in Day of the Bad Man

Arthur Russell: A penny for your thoughts. No. A poor little dead rose for your thoughts, Alice Adams.


--Fred MacMurray (as Arthur Russell) in Alice Adams

Cyrus Anderson: [explaining his duties to Claudette Colbert as bodyguard to Robert Young] He starts fights, and I finish them.


--Fred MacMurray (as ) in The Bride Comes Home