Film Quotes by Ray Milland
37 quotes
Year: 1945
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
Don Birnam:
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!
--
Ray Milland
(as Don Birnam)
in
The Lost Weekend
(1945)
Year: 1945
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
Don Birnam:
What kind of party did you say that was?
Helen St. James: A cocktail party.
Don Birnam: In that case, I'll join you.
Helen St. James: A cocktail party.
Don Birnam: In that case, I'll join you.
--
Ray Milland
(as Don Birnam)
in
The Lost Weekend
(1945)
Year: 1963
Director:
Roger Corman
Director:
Roger Corman
Dr. James Xavier:
I'm blind to all but a tenth of the universe.
Dr. Sam Brant: My dear friend, only the gods see everything.
Dr. James Xavier: My dear doctor, I'm closing in on the gods.
Dr. Sam Brant: My dear friend, only the gods see everything.
Dr. James Xavier: My dear doctor, I'm closing in on the gods.
--
Ray Milland
(as Dr. James Xavier)
in
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
(1963)
Year: 1940
Director:
Alexander Hall
Director:
Alexander Hall
Dr. Timothy Sterling:
[to June] You're so brittle that one of these cold days you're gonna break up into a million pieces, and when that happens, I want a seat right in the grandstand!
--
Ray Milland
(as Dr. Timothy Sterling)
in
The Doctor Takes a Wife
(1940)
Year: 1940
Director:
Alexander Hall
Director:
Alexander Hall
Dr. Timothy Sterling:
You know, it strikes me you're laboring under the impression that you're superior to Marilyn. Well, maybe in sarcasm, yes. But when it comes to... why, you couldn't lure me out of a burning building.
--
Ray Milland
(as Dr. Timothy Sterling)
in
The Doctor Takes a Wife
(1940)
Year: 1951
Director:
Arthur Lubin
Director:
Arthur Lubin
Eric Yeager:
[to Rhubarb] Now listen ya lug, you're in the chips now, the blue chips. So stop acting like a goon squad. This is an okay dame. She doesn't want a nickel of your dough.
[to Polly]
Eric Yeager: stroke him very gently on his head.
Polly Sickles: Why, he doesn't even hiss.
Eric Yeager: You're now a member of the club.
[to Polly]
Eric Yeager: stroke him very gently on his head.
Polly Sickles: Why, he doesn't even hiss.
Eric Yeager: You're now a member of the club.
--
Ray Milland
in
Rhubarb
(1951)
Year: 1951
Director:
Arthur Lubin
Director:
Arthur Lubin
Eric Yeager:
How about some bait?
owner of the pet shop: I'm sorry sir, we have no meat department.
Eric Yeager: Meat? Golf balls is this cat's meat.
owner of the pet shop: I'm sorry sir, we have no meat department.
Eric Yeager: Meat? Golf balls is this cat's meat.
--
Ray Milland
in
Rhubarb
(1951)
Year: 1948
Director:
John Farrow
Director:
John Farrow
George Stroud:
White clocks, yellow clocks, brown clocks, blue clocks. Oh, Miss York, where are the green clocks of yesteryear?
--
Ray Milland
(as George Stroud)
in
The Big Clock
(1948)
Year: 1962
Director:
Roger Corman
Director:
Roger Corman
Guy Carrell:
Can you possibly conceive it. The unendurable oppression of the lungs, the stifling fumes of the earth, the rigid embrace of the coffin, the blackness of absolute night and the silence, like an overwhelming sea.
--
Ray Milland
(as Guy Carrell)
in
The Premature Burial
(1962)
Year: 1962
Director:
Ray Milland
Director:
Ray Milland
Harry Baldwin:
[to Marilyn Hayes, after he and Rick have freed her from evil thugs who have held her captive in her farmhouse] Now put on your clothes and get out!
--
Ray Milland
in
Panic in Year Zero!
(1962)