Leonard Diamond: I'll wait until I can put you on trial for murder.
Mr. Brown: Whose murder, Lieutenant?
Leonard Diamond: Mine, if necessary.
Mr. Brown: Don't push too hard.
Leonard Diamond: It's my sworn duty to push too hard.
Mr. Brown: Diamond, the only trouble with you is, you'd like to be me. You'd like to have my organization, my influence, my fix. You can't. It's impossible. You think it's money, it's not. It's personality. You haven't got it, Lieutenant, you're a cop. Slow, steady, intelligent, with a bad temper, and a gun under your arm. And with a big yen for a girl you can't have. First is first, and second is nobody.


--Richard Conte (as Mr. Brown) in The Big Combo

Patricia Wells: Every time the starter's flag comes down, I die over and over, and there's nothing left inside me to die anymore.
Peter Wells: But driving's my life, my career! It's what I was meant to do! I have no choice!


--Richard Conte (as ) in Mask of Dust

Joe McClure: He pulled a gun on me. What did you want me to do?
Mr. Brown: With your kind of brain, there's nothing else you could do.


--Richard Conte (as Mr. Brown) in The Big Combo

Joe McClure: I guess I'm getting too old to handle a gun.
Mr. Brown: Yeah, maybe you're just getting too old, Joe.


--Richard Conte (as Mr. Brown) in The Big Combo

Joe McClure: Mr. Brown is a very reasonable man. You don't know him.
Leonard Diamond: Oh, is he? Well I'm not. I intend to make life very difficult for your Mr. Brown.
Joe McClure: You shouldn't talk like that, Lieutenant. You're overstepping your authority.
Mr. Brown: Joe, the man has reason to hate me. His salary is $96.50 a week. The busboys in my hotel make better money than that. Don't you see, Joe? He's a righteous man.


--Richard Conte (as Mr. Brown) in The Big Combo

Casey Mayo: [on the phone] If you want your picture on the paper, you'll have to go out and kill somebody first.


--Richard Conte (as Casey Mayo) in The Blue Gardenia

Casey Mayo: How about you slip into something more comfortable, like a few drinks and some chinese food.


--Richard Conte (as Casey Mayo) in The Blue Gardenia

Cpl. Milo Trubee: [after getting a boil on his backside lanced] That didn't hurt a bit.


--Richard Conte (as ) in They Came To Cordura

Crito Damou aka Omar Ben Khalif: [to Lt. Lopez] A brave and silent soldier. We shall see how long you can remain brave and silent.


--Richard Conte (as ) in Desert Legion

Crito Damou aka Omar Ben Khalif: [to Paul Lartal] Oh, I've forgotten to tell you. You were tried this morning by my followers. A fair trial. The verdict was unanimous. Death by stoning.


--Richard Conte (as ) in Desert Legion