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Film Quotes by Kirk Douglas

108 quotes
Along the Great Divide
Year: 1951

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Marshal Len Merrick: [Seeing Dan Roden go for the gun of a sleeping deputy, he cocks his pistol and speaks authoritatively] He's asleep, but I'm not!
-- Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Len Merrick) in Along the Great Divide (1951)
Along the Great Divide
Year: 1951

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Marshal Len Merrick: You're all guilty. You'll all pay.
-- Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Len Merrick) in Along the Great Divide (1951)
Last Train from Gun Hill
Year: 1959

Director:
John Sturges
Marshal Matt Morgan: It's customary for the sheriff to cooperate - furnish deputies...
Gun Hill Sheriff Bartlett: We've got our own customaries, Mr. Morgan. Anyway, the sheriff ain't around.
Marshal Matt Morgan: When's he comin' back?
Gun Hill Sheriff Bartlett: He ain't comin' back.
Marshal Matt Morgan: [realizing he's being stonewalled, he puts his hands on his hips and smiles ironically] What are you? Deputy?
Gun Hill Sheriff Bartlett: Don't matter much what you call me.
[he takes a badge out of his pocket and throws it on the desk]
Marshal Matt Morgan: [looking at the badge] I'm callin' you yellow!
-- Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Matt Morgan) in Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Year: 1954

Director:
Richard Fleischer
Ned Land: [singing] Got a whale of a tale to tell ya, lads, a whale of a tale or two, 'bout the floppin' fish and the girls I've loved on nights like this with the moon above. A whale of a tale and it's all true, I swear by my tattoo. There was Mermaid Minnie; met her down in Madagascar. She would kiss me anytime that I would ask her. Then one evening, her flame of love blew out. Blow me down and pick me up, she swapped me for a trout!
-- Kirk Douglas (as Ned Land) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Year: 1954

Director:
Richard Fleischer
Ned Land: [watching Nemo's bomb explode] There she blows.
-- Kirk Douglas (as Ned Land) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Young Man with a Horn
Year: 1950

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Rick Martin: [to Amy] That trumpet's part of me. It's the best part. You almost made me forget that.
-- Kirk Douglas (as Rick Martin) in Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Young Man with a Horn
Year: 1950

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Rick Martin: [to Amy] What a dope I was. I thought you were class, like a real high note you only hit once in a lifetime.
-- Kirk Douglas (as Rick Martin) in Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Young Man with a Horn
Year: 1950

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Rick Martin: [to Amy] You're like those carnival joints I used to work in. Big flash on the outside, but on the inside nothing but filth.
-- Kirk Douglas (as Rick Martin) in Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Young Man with a Horn
Year: 1950

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Rick Martin: I don't understand a word you're saying, but I love the sound of your voice.
-- Kirk Douglas (as Rick Martin) in Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Young Man with a Horn
Year: 1950

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Rick Martin: I'm not going to be tied down to anybody or anything. From now on, I'm playing it my way.
-- Kirk Douglas (as Rick Martin) in Young Man with a Horn (1950)