Jerry Ryan: I'd say you were a born victim.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Of what?
Jerry Ryan: Yourself.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I feel sorry for you. What's so terrible?
Jerry Ryan: You feel sorry for me?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Sure.
Jerry Ryan: Gittel, how old are you?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: 29.
Jerry Ryan: Stop talking like 28. Start worrying about your own worries.


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Jerry Ryan: It's true. Half of me hasn't even been in this town.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I tried Jake.
Jerry Ryan: Of course.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: So we're both flops.
Jerry Ryan: No. Not both of us. Not you. I've tried to make you over so you'd be more like me - like everyone, I guess. Stingy, holding back, guarding what we have because we've got so little. Everything you get, you give back double. No, you're not a flop. You're a gift, infant. Underneath that beautiful face there's a street brawler. But underneath that there's someone... that no one, nothing has ever dirtied. The way people were meant to be. That's what you are.


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Jerry Ryan: That birthday candle you lit under me cast a light all the way to Omaha.


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Jerry Ryan: This... This isn't true. All the courts in the worid will tell you it's true but it isn't. The bonds can't be "held for nought".


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Jerry Ryan: Well... so long, honey.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I love you, Jerry. As long as you live, remember the last thing you heard outta me was I love you.
Jerry Ryan: I love you too, infant.


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Jerry Ryan: You've nothing better to do.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I've eleven different things I could be doing!
Jerry Ryan: Different isn't better. Why aren't you doing them?


--Robert Mitchum (as Jerry Ryan) in Two for the Seesaw

Jim Garry: I've seen dogs that wouldn't claim you for a son, Tate.


--Robert Mitchum (as Jim Garry) in Blood on the Moon

Jim Garry: It starts with your double-cross of a bunch of jug-headed farmers and the hiring of gun hands. It goes on to your making love to a man's daughter to get her to turn against her own father, and your try for Lufton today. It's past that, to the death of Kris Barden's son, and it winds up right here, with Reardon waiting outside to see if I go with you, or if he shoots me in the back.


--Robert Mitchum (as Jim Garry) in Blood on the Moon

Jim Garry: Shotten, Reardon, and me. Hired gunmen.
Tate Riling: Shotten and Reardon get paid in gold eagles. You get paid in thousands.
Jim Garry: Yeah. Only difference between us is the price.


--Robert Mitchum (as Jim Garry) in Blood on the Moon

Lee Arnold: After all you've been through, you still believe that he's for the people?
Fina: He's a good man.
Lee Arnold: How 'bout me? Am I good man, too?
Fina: Yes.
Lee Arnold: Well, I'll tell you one thing, honey: I'm as good a man as Villa, and that's not saying a hell of a lot for either one of us.


--Robert Mitchum (as ) in Villa Rides