Film Quotes by Edward G. Robinson
125 quotes
Year: 1949
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Max Monetti:
Pa, have you read the new banking act?
Gino Monetti: I don't even read the old one. Why?
Gino Monetti: I don't even read the old one. Why?
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Edward G. Robinson
in
House of Strangers
(1949)
Year: 1944
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
Walter Neff:
What do the police figure?
Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They're satisfied. It's not their dough.
Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They're satisfied. It's not their dough.
--
Edward G. Robinson
(as Barton Keyes)
in
Double Indemnity
(1944)
Year: 1937
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Louise 'Fluff' Phillips:
Nick, you don't notice a lot of things. You're so wrapped up in the game that, well, you forget people have... have feelings and are human.
Nick 'Nicky' Donati: Well, there isn't any room for feelings in this game. A fighter's a machine, not a human being.
Nick 'Nicky' Donati: Well, there isn't any room for feelings in this game. A fighter's a machine, not a human being.
--
Edward G. Robinson
(as Nick 'Nicky' Donati)
in
Kid Galahad
(1937)
Year: 1964
Director:
Martin Ritt
Director:
Martin Ritt
Prospector:
[Describing finding the dead body] No, just one look at that face, and I got out of there as fast as I could!
Con Man: [laughs] Now, what makes people so jittery about the dead? Why, some of my best friends are corpses... the only ones I can trust! Oh, sure, they stink a little but no more than a few alive ones that I know.
Con Man: [laughs] Now, what makes people so jittery about the dead? Why, some of my best friends are corpses... the only ones I can trust! Oh, sure, they stink a little but no more than a few alive ones that I know.
--
Edward G. Robinson
in
The Outrage
(1964)
Year: 1964
Director:
Martin Ritt
Director:
Martin Ritt
Prospector:
Shut up, you! This is a preacher standing here.
Con Man: Preacher? It can't be! He woke me up. They usually put me to sleep.
Prospector: [to the Preacher] Don't pay him no mind.
Preacher: Who is he?
Prospector: He's a con man... a swindler... an old scalawag.
Con Man: How else can a man live to be old nowadays?
Con Man: Preacher? It can't be! He woke me up. They usually put me to sleep.
Prospector: [to the Preacher] Don't pay him no mind.
Preacher: Who is he?
Prospector: He's a con man... a swindler... an old scalawag.
Con Man: How else can a man live to be old nowadays?
--
Edward G. Robinson
in
The Outrage
(1964)
Year: 1964
Director:
Martin Ritt
Director:
Martin Ritt
Prospector:
There was a trial.
Con Man: What happened?
Prospector: A man was murdered.
Con Man: Just one? A slow day!
Con Man: What happened?
Prospector: A man was murdered.
Con Man: Just one? A slow day!
--
Edward G. Robinson
in
The Outrage
(1964)
Year: 1932
Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
Shirley Day:
[Getting ready to leave for the dance hall in a tight-fitting dress] Well, Big Boy, what do I look like now?
John Allen: [Contemptuously] Just like what you are!
John Allen: [Contemptuously] Just like what you are!
--
Edward G. Robinson
in
Two Seconds
(1932)
Year: 1965
Director:
Norman Jewison
Director:
Norman Jewison
Shooter:
Well, Lancey, are we all set for Monday night?
Lancey Howard: Uh-huh.
Shooter: I can get Lady Fingers to come.
Lancey Howard: Lady Fingers? I haven't seen that old bitch - oh, it must be at least ten years;long enough to think of her almost fondly.
Lancey Howard: Uh-huh.
Shooter: I can get Lady Fingers to come.
Lancey Howard: Lady Fingers? I haven't seen that old bitch - oh, it must be at least ten years;long enough to think of her almost fondly.
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Edward G. Robinson
(as Lancey Howard)
in
The Cincinnati Kid
(1965)
Year: 1934
Director:
Archie Mayo
Director:
Archie Mayo
Daphne Flowers:
Listen here, you big heel, you've left me flat for over a week!
Damon Welles: Well, that's the way i found you!
Daphne Flowers: What were you doing in Philadelpia on Monday?
Damon Welles: I never go to Philadelphia!
Damon Welles: Well, that's the way i found you!
Daphne Flowers: What were you doing in Philadelpia on Monday?
Damon Welles: I never go to Philadelphia!
--
Edward G. Robinson
in
The Man with Two Faces
(1934)
Year: 1948
Director:
John Huston
Director:
John Huston
Gaye Dawn:
[finishes her song and goes over to the bar] Give me that drink now, Johnny.
Johnny Rocco: No.
Gaye Dawn: Johnny!
Johnny Rocco: [louder] No.
Gaye Dawn: But you promised!
Johnny Rocco: So what?
Gaye Dawn: You said that...
Johnny Rocco: But you were rotten.
Johnny Rocco: No.
Gaye Dawn: Johnny!
Johnny Rocco: [louder] No.
Gaye Dawn: But you promised!
Johnny Rocco: So what?
Gaye Dawn: You said that...
Johnny Rocco: But you were rotten.
--
Edward G. Robinson
(as Johnny Rocco)
in
Key Largo
(1948)