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Film Quotes by Arthur Kennedy

20 quotes
The Rawhide Years
Year: 1956
Rick Harper: Meet me in St Louis!
The Rawhide Years
Year: 1956
Rick Harper: Miserable country, infested with decent citizens.
The Naked Dawn
Year: 1955

Director:
Edgar G. Ulmer
Santiago: Aww! You know how to die. You watch plenty others.
The Man from Laramie
Year: 1955

Director:
Anthony Mann
Vic Hansbro: I'm sorry about this. I figured you'd kinda have your bellyful of these parts and would be anxious to get out of here.
Will Lockhart: Yeah, well, I figure this place owes me somethin' and I'm gonna make it pay.
Vic Hansbro: Let me straighten you out, mister. We got enough trouble around here with the Apaches and young Dave. Now don't you go startin' any!
-- Arthur Kennedy (as Vic Hansbro) in The Man from Laramie (1955)
The Lusty Men
Year: 1952

Director:
Nicholas Ray*Robert Parrish
Wes Merritt: A fella's bankroll could get fat in a hurry, rodeoin'.
Jeff McCloud: Bahh... Chicken today, feathers tomorrow.
Wes Merritt: Not if he played it smart when he had the chicken.
-- Arthur Kennedy (as Wes Merritt) in The Lusty Men (1952)
The Window
Year: 1949

Director:
Ted Tetzlaff
Tommy Woodry: Pop? If you see a thing with your own eyes, it can't be a dream, can it?
Mr. Ed Woodry: You don't want me ever to be ashamed of you, do you?
Tommy Woodry: No pop.
Mr. Ed Woodry: Well don't you see that might happen if you keep this up? People gonna say that Ed Woodry's son doesn't know the difference between what's real and what isn't. Why, they might even say that you're a liar.
-- Arthur Kennedy (as Mr. Ed Woodry) in The Window (1949)
Lawrence of Arabia
Year: 1962

Director:
David Lean
Jackson Bentley: Never saw a man killed with a sword before.
T.E. Lawrence: [contemptuously] Why don't you take a picture?
Jackson Bentley: Wish I had.
-- Arthur Kennedy (as Jackson Bentley) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia
Year: 1962

Director:
David Lean
Jackson Bentley: Ow, you rotten man... here, let me take your rotten bloody picture... for the rotten bloody newspapers.
-- Arthur Kennedy (as Jackson Bentley) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia
Year: 1962

Director:
David Lean
Jackson Bentley: You answered without saying anything. That's politics.
-- Arthur Kennedy (as Jackson Bentley) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia
Year: 1962

Director:
David Lean
[asked by reporter if he knew Lawrence]
Jackson Bentley: Yes, it was my privilege to know him and to make him known to the world. He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior.
[after reporter leaves]
Jackson Bentley: He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey.
-- Arthur Kennedy (as Jackson Bentley) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)