Film Quotes by Dick Powell
43 quotes
Year: 1952
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
James Lee Bartlow:
Yes, this is James Lee Bartlow... Paris?... Mr. Shields!... is Mr. Shields paying for this call?... All right, put him on... Hello, Jonathan? Drop dead.
--
Dick Powell
(as James Lee Bartlow)
in
The Bad and the Beautiful
(1952)
Year: 1940
Director:
Preston Sturges
Director:
Preston Sturges
Jimmy MacDonald:
If you can't sleep, it isn't the coffee. It's the bunk.
--
Dick Powell
(as Jimmy MacDonald)
in
Christmas in July
(1940)
Year: 1945
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Laurence Gerard:
I'll tell you what. I thought it over and decided not to pay any attention to you.
--
Dick Powell
in
Cornered
(1945)
Year: 1954
Director:
Frank Tashlin
Director:
Frank Tashlin
Mark Christopher:
You know I've forgotten what seventeen year old emotional kids are like. I've been going out with middle-aged women; twenty, twenty-one.
--
Dick Powell
(as Mark Christopher)
in
Susan Slept Here
(1954)
Year: 1943
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Pete Hamilton:
With your charm and my conniving, there's nothing to worry about.
--
Dick Powell
(as Pete Hamilton)
in
Happy Go Lucky
(1943)
Year: 1944
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Philip Marlowe:
"'Okay Marlowe,' I said to myself. 'You're a tough guy. You've been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you're crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let's see you do something really tough - like putting your pants on.'"
--
Dick Powell
(as Philip Marlowe)
in
Murder, My Sweet
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Philip Marlowe:
[about his gun] That's just part of my clothes. I hardly ever shoot anybody with it.
--
Dick Powell
(as Philip Marlowe)
in
Murder, My Sweet
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Philip Marlowe:
He died in 1940, in the middle of a glass of beer. His wife Jessie finished it for him.
--
Dick Powell
(as Philip Marlowe)
in
Murder, My Sweet
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Philip Marlowe:
He was doubled up on his face in that bag-of-old-clothes position that always means the same thing: he had been killed by an amateur. Or, by somebody who wanted it to look like an amateur job. Nobody else would hit a man that many times with a sap.
--
Dick Powell
(as Philip Marlowe)
in
Murder, My Sweet
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Philip Marlowe:
I caught the blackjack right behind my ear. A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom. I felt pretty good - like an amputated leg.
--
Dick Powell
(as Philip Marlowe)
in
Murder, My Sweet
(1944)