Mae LaRue: [Bursting in on Dutch and Lil in Dutch's office] I told you he was in!
[Sizing up the situation]
Mae LaRue: Hello, lover.
Dutch Barnes: [Straightening his tie nervously] Hello, Mae.
Lily 'Lil' Duran: Hello Mae? You bet he's in; he's in my hair.
[turning to Dutch]
Lily 'Lil' Duran: Why you double-crossing, two-timing slug. So that's why you want to send me to Europe, huh?
Dutch Barnes: Now wait a minute, honey, wait a minute.
Lily 'Lil' Duran: Oh, wait a minute - breezin' me off so you can play post office with this queen. What gutter'dja pick her out of?
Mae LaRue: [Doing a Mae West hand-on-hip hair fluff] I don't believe I know you.
Lily 'Lil' Duran: [Kicking her in the rump] Well how's this for an introduction?
Mae LaRue: Why I'll knock your head off and throw it right in...
[They start to wrestle]
Lily 'Lil' Duran: You and what army?
[They continue fighting and hair-pulling and yelling at each other. After thirty seconds or so, Dutch intervenes]
Dutch Barnes: [Pushing the women apart] Now listen, you two dames. What's the matter with ya?
Lefty: [to Slim] Get Jimmy.
[Lefty and Dutch go into the next room and close the door]
Dutch Barnes: [to Lefty] *There's* a couplea phone numbers for the ashcan!
Lefty: Maybe we'd better go in for nail files.
[as a next line of business]
Dutch Barnes: Shut up. Where's Jimmy?
Lefty: Slim's sending him in.
Jimmy Morrell: [Entering] Mr. Barnes, what's happened?
Dutch Barnes: My tomatoes blew up.


--Ricardo Cortez (as Dutch Barnes) in The Big Shakedown

Spot White: Life didn't mean a thing to me till I met you; now it means everything. There isn't anything in it that isn't you. That's why... sometimes I'm afraid of the future, afraid that I may lose you.
Tony Evans: Darling, no one should mean that much to you. There's nothing more uncertain than the life of a man like me. You're so young and so beautiful, and you will be for a long time to come. Remember, no matter what happens, I want you to promise you'll keep your chin up. Promise? Always keep your chin up.


--Ricardo Cortez (as ) in Mandalay

Casper Gutman: You are here, Mr. Spade, as Miss Wonderly's representative?
Sam Spade: No, I'm here looking out for myself.


--Ricardo Cortez (as Sam Spade) in The Maltese Falcon

Bill Blaine: I like you.
Peggy Martin Van Tyle: Thanks.
Bill Blaine: Don't you think we'd get along much better if we teamed instead of working against each other?
Peggy Martin Van Tyle: Why not?
Bill Blaine: Then you want to proceed on a business basis only?
Peggy Martin Van Tyle: That's right.
Bill Blaine: You're a very attractive woman, and I'm only human.
Peggy Martin Van Tyle: I can keep my head.
Bill Blaine: Can you keep it for both of us?
Peggy Martin Van Tyle: Mmm-hmmm.
Bill Blaine: All right. Try it out and see how it works.
Bill Blaine: I'll chance it It's a gamble... like everything else in life.


--Ricardo Cortez (as ) in The House on 56th Street

Bill Blaine: You've gambled on everything else... why not love?


--Ricardo Cortez (as ) in The House on 56th Street

Dr. Schifflen: My boy, there are two kinds of men in our profession. Some are gifted with the spark of genius; some of us are... just doctors.
[walks to the door and opens it, then turns back toward Felix]
Dr. Schifflen: Felix Klauber, you're more capable than I, but if you don't go through with this operation, I will.


--Ricardo Cortez (as ) in Symphony of Six Million

Leo Darcy: [to Mary] You can leave at any time, I won't go after you... but you'll always come back.


--Ricardo Cortez (as ) in Midnight Mary

Nolan: [as the crooked lawyer misses a shot on a pool table] Straight shot and I missed it!


--Ricardo Cortez (as Nolan) in The Walking Dead

Producer Ben Weston: [Contemptuously to Vance] You know, Vance, there must be some way of getting rid of rat like you. I suppose the best way is just to crunch you underfoot on the sidewalk.


--Ricardo Cortez (as ) in The Man with Two Faces

Sam Spade: [Asking operator for telephone exchange] Berkeley double o seven.


--Ricardo Cortez (as Sam Spade) in The Maltese Falcon