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The Illustrated Man

The Illustrated Man

Willie: Well, there must be a hundred houses like that around here.
Carl: I'm only lookin' for one. And I'm lookin' for the lady who lives in it. And when I find her... I'm going to kill her. Oh, yes... oh, yes... I will kill her.


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Illustrated Man

No Way to Treat a Lady

No Way to Treat a Lady

Sylvia Poppie: Is that one of your own wigs you're wearing?
Christopher Gill: You don't look like Cleopatra, honey.
Belle Poppie: Don't raise your voice!
Sylvia Poppie: You homo.
Christopher Gill: Doesn't mean you're a bad person.


--Rod Steiger (as Christopher Gill) in No Way to Treat a Lady

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall

[last lines]
Nick Benko: A man that gives away twenty-six thousand dollars you can't talk to. I wanna tell ya one more thing. I wouldn't give twenty-six cents for your future.


--Rod Steiger (as ) in The Harder They Fall

The Longest Day

The Longest Day

Destroyer Commander: You remember it. Remember every bit of it, 'cause we are on the eve of a day that people are going to talk about long after we are dead and gone.


--Rod Steiger (as Destroyer Commander) in The Longest Day

In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night

Gillespie: [on telephone to Tibbs' chief] I do want to thank you for offering such a powerful piece of manpower as Virgil Tibbs.


--Rod Steiger (as Gillespie) in In the Heat of the Night


In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night

Gillespie: Whatcha hit him with?
Tibbs: Hit whom?
Gillespie: "Whom"? Are you a northern boy? What's a northern boy doing down here?


--Rod Steiger (as Gillespie) in In the Heat of the Night

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