Eric 'Bullwhip' Griffin: Oh, I have no doubt that you're a scoundrel, Higgins, but you certainly aren't the type who would shoot an unarmed man.
Judge Higgins: Well, that's purely a personal opinion on your part.


--Karl Malden (as ) in The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

Terry: If I spill, my life ain't worth a nickel.
Father Barry: And how much is your soul worth if you don't?


--Karl Malden (as Father Barry) in On the Waterfront

Harry Palmer: What exactly have you been saying we do in Latvia?
Leo Newbigen: I told the brain exactly what it wanted to hear.
Harry Palmer: Oh, yes? What would that be, Leo?
Leo Newbigen: I told it we had three hundred agents in Latvia dismantling missile sites and professional saboteurs ready for armed insurrection.
Harry Palmer: Er, or political assassination.
Leo Newbigen: Um, hmn. Mass uprisings...
Harry Palmer: Over throwing governments.
Leo Newbigen: Yeah, over throwing anything at all.
Harry Palmer: Three hundred agents? How much a week?
Leo Newbigen: Thirty thousand dollars.
Harry Palmer: Thirty thousand dollars a week?
Leo Newbegin: Plus expenses and from now on, you're in on half.
Harry Palmer: Oh, thank you, Leo. But I would like to stay alive to spend it. That lunatic is about to invade Soviet territory.
Leo Newbigen: And we're not going to be around when he does.
Harry Palmer: When he gets within five miles of the Latvian border, every alarm in the whole world will blow and four minutes later, nobody is going to be around.
Leo Newbigen: You want your money, don't you?


--Karl Malden (as ) in Billion Dollar Brain

Archie Lee Meighan: Is that what they call a Mona Lisa smile you got on your puss?


--Karl Malden (as Archie Lee Meighan) in Baby Doll

Father Barry: Boys, this is my church! And if you don't think Christ is down here on the waterfront you've got another guess coming!


--Karl Malden (as Father Barry) in On the Waterfront

Father Barry: Isn't it simple as one, two, three? One: The working conditions are bad. Two: They're bad because the mob does the hiring. And three: The only way we can break the mob is to stop letting them get away with murder.


--Karl Malden (as Father Barry) in On the Waterfront

Father Barry: Some people think the Crucifixion only took place on Calvary. They better wise up! Taking Joey Doyle's life to stop him from testifying is a crucifixion. And dropping a sling on Kayo Dugan because he was ready to spill his guts tomorrow, that's a crucifixion. And every time the Mob puts the pressure on a good man, tries to stop him from doing his duty as a citizen, it's a crucifixion. And anybody who sits around and lets it happen, keeps silent about something he knows that happened, shares the guilt of it just as much as the Roman soldier who pierced the flesh of our Lord to see if he was dead.


--Karl Malden (as Father Barry) in On the Waterfront

Father Barry: Some people think the Crucifixion only took place on Calvary. Well, they better wise up!


--Karl Malden (as Father Barry) in On the Waterfront

Father Barry: You want to know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making love of a buck - -the cushy job - -more important than the love of man!


--Karl Malden (as Father Barry) in On the Waterfront

Father Barry: You'd better get rid of that gun, unless you haven't got the guts, and if you don't, you'd better hang on to it!


--Karl Malden (as Father Barry) in On the Waterfront