Earl Pfeiffer: Mae - what do you *really* think of me?
Mae Doyle D'Amato: [coolly] You impress me as a man who needs a new suit of clothes or a new love affair - but he doesn't know which.
Earl Pfeiffer: [stung] You can't make me any smaller. I happen to be pre-shrunk.


--Robert Ryan (as Earl Pfeiffer) in Clash by Night

Hans Ehrengard: Could be anybody. Even friendly.


--Robert Ryan (as Hans Ehrengard) in The Professionals

Hans Ehrengard: Draw your pay, mister.
Horseman: Well you wanted him broken, didn't ya?
Hans Ehrengard: Yeah. But not ruined. Now get outa here.


--Robert Ryan (as Hans Ehrengard) in The Professionals

Hans Ehrengard: God almighty, I've known heat before, but this is... I hate the desert. It's got no... pity.
[passes out]


--Robert Ryan (as Hans Ehrengard) in The Professionals

Hans Ehrengard: Rico! All clear. By the way, I forgot to bring your wooden cross. Your *upside-down* cross.
[gun battle erupts]


--Robert Ryan (as Hans Ehrengard) in The Professionals

Ike Clanton: Get this through your heads. If this was the east, I could make law the way they do. But the best I can do out here is buy it.


--Robert Ryan (as ) in Hour of the Gun

Jim Brecan: Why would a woman like you want to spend her time in a teak forest?


--Robert Ryan (as ) in Escape to Burma

Jim Wilson: Why do you make me do it? You know you're gonna talk! I'm gonna make you talk! I always make you punks talk! Why do you do it? Why?


--Robert Ryan (as Jim Wilson) in On Dangerous Ground

Joe Parkson: Just so there won't be no misunderstanding, tell him I'll be back!
Edith Enley: If you are, the police will be here to meet you.
Joe Parkson: You'd better check with your husband. I don't think he'd like that.


--Robert Ryan (as Joe Parkson) in Act of Violence

Joe Parkson: Sure, I was in the hospital, but I didn't go crazy. I kept myself sane. You know how? I kept saying to myself: Joe, you're the only one alive that knows what he did. You're the one that's got to find him, Joe. I kept remembering. I kept thinking back to that prison camp. One of them lasted to the morning. By then, you couldn't tell his voice belonged to a man. He sounded like a dog that got hit by a truck and left him in the street.


--Robert Ryan (as Joe Parkson) in Act of Violence