Quotes from Thieves' Highway (1949)

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Valentina Cortese
Nico 'Nick' Garcos: Hey, do you like apples?
Rica: Everybody likes apples, except doctors.
Nico 'Nick' Garcos: Do you know what it takes to get an apple so you can sink your beautiful teeth in it? You gotta stuff rags up tailpipes, farmers gotta get gypped, you jack up trucks with the back of your neck, universals conk out...
Rica: I don't know what are you talking about, but I have a new respect for apples.

Valentina Cortese
Nico 'Nick' Garcos: Soft hands.
Rica: Sharp nails.

Lee J. Cobb
Mike Figlia: Everything happens to me. The whole street, he's gotta break down in front of my place.
Charles, dock henchman: Tough luck.
Mike Figlia: I'm the original tough luck kid.
- Lee J. Cobb (as Mike Figlia) in Thieves' Highway (1949)

Valentina Cortese
Rica: [knowingly, after getting out of the shower, and hearing that Polly has walked out on Nick] Aren't women wonderful?