Film Quotes by Burt Lancaster
145 quotes
Year: 1955
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Elias Wakefield:
[referring to Fletcher] He's a windbag but high educated and mighty high.
--
Burt Lancaster
(as Elias Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
Year: 1955
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Elias Wakefield:
I overdone my fun and so poked my paw in the bear trap.
--
Burt Lancaster
(as Elias Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
Year: 1955
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Elias Wakefield:
It ain't we don't like people - we like room more. Room to stretch in, room to see and hunt... and where you set your foot no foot's been set before. That's what ails Kentucky now; a man can't hardly move without he nudges up agin' a neighbor.
--
Burt Lancaster
(as Elias Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
Year: 1955
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Elias Wakefield:
The way to start off new is to shuck off what's old.
--
Burt Lancaster
(as Elias Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
Year: 1955
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Elias Wakefield:
Well, the egg ain't hatched yet, but we sure got a hen settin'.
--
Burt Lancaster
(as Elias Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
Year: 1955
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Director:
Burt Lancaster
Elias Wakefield:
You got to take things for what they are.
--
Burt Lancaster
(as Elias Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
Year: 1960
Director:
Richard Brooks
Director:
Richard Brooks
Elmer Gantry:
[repeated] Love is the morning and the evening star.
--
Burt Lancaster
(as Elmer Gantry)
in
Elmer Gantry
(1960)
Year: 1960
Director:
Richard Brooks
Director:
Richard Brooks
Elmer Gantry:
I have here in my pocket - and thank heaven you can't see them - lewd, dirty, obscene, and I'm ashamed to say this: French postcards. They were sold to me in front of your own innocent high school by a man with a black beard... a foreigner.
--
Burt Lancaster
(as Elmer Gantry)
in
Elmer Gantry
(1960)
Year: 1960
Director:
Richard Brooks
Director:
Richard Brooks
Elmer Gantry:
I was accosted by three painted women. Your streets are made unsafe by shameless, diseased hussies, rapacious pick-pockets, and insidious opium-smokers.
--
Burt Lancaster
(as Elmer Gantry)
in
Elmer Gantry
(1960)
Year: 1960
Director:
Richard Brooks
Director:
Richard Brooks
Elmer Gantry:
Sin, sin, sin! You're all sinners! You're all doomed to perdition!
--
Burt Lancaster
(as Elmer Gantry)
in
Elmer Gantry
(1960)