Jonathan Shields: Don't worry. Some of the best movies are made by people working together who hate each other's guts.


--Kirk Douglas (as Jonathan Shields) in The Bad and the Beautiful

Jonathan Shields: If you dream, dream big.


--Kirk Douglas (as Jonathan Shields) in The Bad and the Beautiful

Lomax: [Jackson and Lomax see a man getting shot at by a gang] Let me guess which one's your friend.


--Kirk Douglas (as Lomax) in The War Wagon

Lomax: I can't afford to let you get killed, unless I do it!


--Kirk Douglas (as Lomax) in The War Wagon

Lomax: KD: Oh great, just great. I'm out a hundred thousand of my share, two thousand from Levi...
[to Levi who is riding off towards the Indians sifting through the barrels of flour where Taw's gang has hidden the gold dust]
Lomax: Where are you going?
Levi Walking Bear: Back to my people.
Lomax: Now what am I supposed to do, live with the Indians for the next year and open up a bakery? And with Pierce dead, it doesn't even pay to kill you any more!


--Kirk Douglas (as Lomax) in The War Wagon

Lomax: Well, I guess you don't know about his new toy - a little iron-plated thing he calls "The War Wagon."
Taw Jackson: It takes an average shipment of fifty thousand in gold from Emmett to the railhead in El Paso 43 1/2 miles away.
Lomax: Then there are a few guards...
Taw Jackson: Thirty-three of 'em. Twenty-eight outriders and five in the coach. Each man is armed with a Henry repeating rifle, two Colts and two hundred rounds of ammunition.
Lomax: What's all this got to do with me?
Taw Jackson: We're going to take that wagon.
Lomax: We are? Have you taken a look lately at the cemetery in Emmett? There's a bunch of cheap wooden crosses in one corner all kind of crowded in together. That's the tribute to the last fools who tried to stop The War Wagon. Like facts? A dollar fifteen for the casket, twelve cents for the crosses - Pierce foots the bill. A dollar twenty seven seems a poor price for a man's life - especially mine.


--Kirk Douglas (as Lomax) in The War Wagon

Lomax: What made you think I wouldn't kill you?
Taw Jackson: Curiosity.
Lomax: Well, you're still alive. Now what's to keep you that way?
Taw Jackson: Money.
Lomax: How much?
Taw Jackson: Your share will be over a hundred thousand.
Lomax: That's what I've always said the world needs... more simple understanding to bring people together!


--Kirk Douglas (as Lomax) in The War Wagon

Lomax: You caused me a lot of embarrassment! You're the only man I shot, that I didn't kill.


--Kirk Douglas (as Lomax) in The War Wagon

Lomax: You gotta a bargain, Big Man.
Taw Jackson: How's that?
Lomax: Two five-hundred dollar days for the price of one.


--Kirk Douglas (as Lomax) in The War Wagon

Maj. Steve Garrett: [to Frank] Don't try to prove you're a man to me. Prove it to the girl. Don't you know she loves you? Take her and leave this town, as quick as you can, and never come back!


--Kirk Douglas (as ) in Town Without Pity