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Film Quotes by Karl Malden

29 quotes
Diplomatic Courier
Year: 1952

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Sgt. Ernie Guelvada: [to Mike] Take it careful brother. You bruise easy.
Nevada Smith
Year: 1966

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Tom Fitch: The kid's creepy. He ain't human! He doesn't kill people; he executes them. Yeah, he executes them!
-- Karl Malden (as Tom Fitch) in Nevada Smith (1966)
How the West Was Won
Year: 1962

Director:
John Ford*Henry Hathaway*George Marshall*Richard Thorpe
Zebulon Prescott: O Lord, without consulting with Thee, we have sent thy way some souls whose evil ways passeth all understanding. We ask Thee humbly to receive them... whether you want them or not! Amen.
-- Karl Malden (as Zebulon Prescott) in How the West Was Won (1962)
All Fall Down
Year: 1962

Director:
John Frankenheimer
Annabell Willart: [Ralph and Clinton are barbequing, and drinking liquor. Annabell is not amused] You don't have to go making HIM a drunkard, too, Ralph.
Ralph Willart: Whom are you calling a "drunkard," madame?
Annabell Willart: [Exasperated] You never go anywhere without that bottle. You'd even take it to Church with you - if you ever WENT to Church.
Ralph Willart: If I ever went to Church, I'd HAVE to take it with me!
[laughs derisively]
-- Karl Malden (as Ralph Willart) in All Fall Down (1962)
Baby Doll
Year: 1956

Director:
Elia Kazan
Baby Doll: I don't want to be in the same room with a man that would make me live in a house with no furniture! My daddy would turn over in his grave if he knew, he would just turn over in his grave.
Archie Lee Meighan: If your daddy turned in his grave as often as you say he'd turn in his grave, that old man would plow up the graveyard.
-- Karl Malden (as Archie Lee Meighan) in Baby Doll (1956)
Pollyanna
Year: 1960

Director:
David Swift
Mrs. Paul Ford: [finding Reverend Ford, head bowed, on his knees in prayer] Paul? Are you alright?
Reverend Ford: Nobody owns a church, no one.
-- Karl Malden (as Reverend Paul Ford) in Pollyanna (1960)
Nevada Smith
Year: 1966

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Outlaw: We shoot to kill?
Tom Fitch: Is there any other way?
-- Karl Malden (as Tom Fitch) in Nevada Smith (1966)
Billion Dollar Brain
Year: 1967

Director:
Directed by Ken Russell
[Harry is shown a terminal of the Brain]
Harry Palmer: What does it do, tell fortunes?
Leo Newbigen: It *makes* fortunes: ours! Just a little toy, but it puts the MI5 and the CIA back into the Stone Age.
Baby Doll
Year: 1956

Director:
Elia Kazan
[repeated lines]
Archie Lee Meighan: Baby Doll!
-- Karl Malden (as Archie Lee Meighan) in Baby Doll (1956)