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Film Quotes by John McIntire

21 quotes
Westward the Women
Year: 1951

Director:
William A. Wellman
Roy E. Whitman: One man's eye for beauty is another man's eyesore!
Flaming Star
Year: 1960

Director:
Don Siegel
Sam 'Pa' Burton: [at Neddy Burton's funeral] One thing from the bible she liked. "And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living." To me, Neddy, you were the mother of all living. You were life itself. God... just one thing... take care of this woman. Amen.
The Kentuckian
Year: 1955

Director:
Burt Lancaster
Zack Wakefield: I know what's best for him. I'll make a businessman out of him. You leave it to me. I'll work the buckskin out of him and off of him both. He's my little brother.
-- John McIntire (as Zack Wakefield) in The Kentuckian (1955)
The Kentuckian
Year: 1955

Director:
Burt Lancaster
Zack Wakefield: Just keep your powder dry. Our time to shoot will come.
-- John McIntire (as Zack Wakefield) in The Kentuckian (1955)
The Kentuckian
Year: 1955

Director:
Burt Lancaster
Zack Wakefield: Look, we're much obliged - more than I can say.
Hannah: Eli, you're playin' the fool.
Zack Wakefield: Maybe my own kind of fool then.
[to Little Eli]
Zack Wakefield: Let's go, boy.
-- John McIntire (as Zack Wakefield) in The Kentuckian (1955)
You're in the Navy Now
Year: 1951

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Ens. Anthony 'Tony' Barbo: Sir, I haven't got a degree in engineering!
Cmdr. W. R. Reynolds: Then you better pay close attention.
-- John McIntire (as Cmdr. W. R. Reynolds) in You're in the Navy Now (1951)
Winchester '73
Year: 1950

Director:
Anthony Mann
Dutch Henry Brown: What happened at the Little Big Horn?
Joe Lamont: Haven't you heard? Sioux jumped Custer - wiped out his whole command. Yes sir, it's getting to be mighty tough country to travel... without a gun.
-- John McIntire (as Joe Lamont) in Winchester '73 (1950)
War Arrow
Year: 1953

Director:
George Sherman
Major Howell Brady: You can't treat him like that! He's a chief!
Col. Jackson Meade: [Contemptuously] Of what?
-- John McIntire (as Col. Jackson Meade) in War Arrow (1953)
The World in His Arms
Year: 1952

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Portugee: Hey, you... you? How you like to sign on as first mate, huh?
Deacon Greathouse: Cast off, Portugee. For as vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sound of your voice to the ears of an honest man.
-- John McIntire (as Deacon Greathouse) in The World in His Arms (1952)
Psycho
Year: 1960

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Sam Loomis: You mean the old woman I saw tonight wasn't Mrs. Bates?
Sheriff Al Chambers: Now wait a minute, Sam, are you *sure* you saw an old woman?
Sam Loomis: Yes! In the house behind the motel! I called and I pounded, but she just ignored me!
Sheriff Al Chambers: You mean to tell me you saw Norman Bates' mother?
Lila Crane: It had to be - because Arbogast said so too. And the young man wouldn't let him see her because she was too ill.
Sheriff Al Chambers: Well, if the woman up there is Mrs. Bates... who's that woman buried out in Greenlawn Cemetery?
-- John McIntire (as Sheriff Al Chambers) in Psycho (1960)