Patroling Beach Cleaner: If you folks ain't got nothin' to do, maybe you'd like to fish. I got a lot of tackle.
Jeff Sommerfield: Thanks, but we're just trying to talk.
Patroling Beach Cleaner: Well, all right, but I got a hunch they're bitin'. Sure you won't change your mind? cuz after you get old, you got a lot of time to talk.
Jeff Sommerfield: Let's get out of here.


--Richard Carlson (as Jeff Sommerfield) in The Affairs of Martha

David Hewitt: [Listening to African-Americans singing] Well, white people may have the pianos, but the colored folks got the voices.


--Richard Carlson (as David Hewitt) in The Little Foxes

David Hewitt: Do you like me?
Alexandra Giddens: Not today.
David Hewitt: Why, I'll come back tomorrow.


--Richard Carlson (as David Hewitt) in The Little Foxes

David Hewitt: I'll tell you what you could do if you went away, Zan: if you could find some place where they pay wages for talkin' silly, you could make a fortune.


--Richard Carlson (as David Hewitt) in The Little Foxes

David Hewitt: You know, that's the first time I ever heard your mother tell you to do something, and you didn't hop to do it.
Alexandra Giddens: That's a funny thing to say
David Hewitt: You know, you take one step. And then you take another. After a while you'll find out you're walking all by yourself.


--Richard Carlson (as David Hewitt) in The Little Foxes

Henry Murdoch: That was Sara on the telephone.
Naomi Murdoch: Sara?
Henry Murdoch: Sara Harper. She's the drama teacher. They're putting additional chairs in the auditorium. It seems there's sudden demand for seats.
Naomi Murdoch: Well, at least Lily will have a good house.
Henry Murdoch: And you'll be the center of attention.
Naomi Murdoch: [First resentful and the angry] Oh, I'll make a good impression, Henry. That's all you care about, isn't it? Appearances and what other people will think? Well, I'm not the girl from across the tracks who used to embarrass you! Not anymore! I won't laugh too loud or make jokes or speak to the riffraff. I knew before I married you.
Henry Murdoch: That's very good of you.


--Richard Carlson (as Henry Murdoch) in All I Desire

John Putnam: [View of Putnam from inside the mine shaft. He's outside peering into the darkness, speaking to the alien] Show yourself! Let me see you as you truly are!
Alien: [Voice from off screen] No.


--Richard Carlson (as John Putnam) in It Came from Outer Space

Tom Stewart: Sandy, why did you have to see it?
Sandy Hubbard: I couldn't help it.
Tom Stewart: No, nobody could help any of it, except me. If I'd held my hand out to Vi I could've saved her, but I killed her.


--Richard Carlson (as ) in Tormented

Tuck: Well, you don't seem very glad to see me, Champ.
Champ Connors: About as glad as a dying mule to see a vulture.


--Richard Carlson (as ) in The Valley of Gwangi

[first lines]
John Putnam: [off-screen] This is Sand Rock, Arizona, of a late evening in early spring. It's a nice town, knowing its past and sure of its future, as it makes ready for the night, and the predictable morning. The desert blankets the earth, cooling, resting for the fight with tomorrow's sun. And in my house near the town, we're also sure of the future. So very sure.


--Richard Carlson (as John Putnam) in It Came from Outer Space