Noah Cullen: [after covering Joker's face with mud so it doesn't show in the moonlight] There, now just the meanness shines through.

- Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones (1958)

Noah Cullen: [to John] Go on, tell me all that big talk about Charlie Potatoes, when the chains off and nobody chasing you. Come on. You can't, can you? You can't because you're nothing. You're not even a man! You're a monkey on a stick. That cracker mob back there, they pull the string and you jump.
[John punches him]

- Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones (1958)

Noah Cullen: I ain't gettin' mad, Joker. I been mad all my natural life.

- Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones (1958)

John 'Joker' Jackson: Cullen, I can't make it.
Noah Cullen: [Holding out his arm as if they are still chained together] Come on, man, you draggin' the chain.

- Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones (1958)

John 'Joker' Jackson: Ya'll can't lynch me! I'm a white man!

- Tony Curtis (as John 'Joker' Jackson) in The Defiant Ones (1958)

[Why they don't have to worry about finding the 2 convicts]
Sheriff Max Muller: They'll kill each other in five miles.

- Theodore Bikel (as Sheriff Max Muller) in The Defiant Ones (1958)

Noah Cullen: You call me that again, and I'll kill you!

- Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones (1958)