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Film Quotes by Richard Boone

12 quotes
Ten Wanted Men
Year: 1955

Director:
H. Bruce Humberstone
Adam Stewart: [seeing Campbell standing over a dead Grinnel] I thought Grinnel was your friend?
Wick Campbell: That's what makes it so sad. I've known him for years. First time I was ever forced to kill a man, and it had to be a friend of mine.
-- Richard Boone (as Wick Campbell) in Ten Wanted Men (1955)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Year: 1951

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Commando colonel: [after the failed attack on Rommel's HQ at the beginning, Aldinger finds the wounded commando officer] Did we, did we get him?
Capt. Hermann Aldinger: [smirking] Are you serious, Englishman?
-- Richard Boone (as Capt. Hermann Aldinger) in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Vicki
Year: 1953

Director:
Harry Horner
Steve Christopher: Slug me with those, Cornell, and I'll square you off if it takes me the rest of my life.
Lt. Ed Cornell: You're not gonna have a very long life, Stevie. You're like a rat in a box, without any holes. But they're gonna make a hole for you...six by three, filled with quicklime.
-- Richard Boone (as Lt. Ed Cornell) in Vicki (1953)
Rio Conchos
Year: 1964

Director:
Gordon Douglas
Col. Wagner: You can give me your word that you'll get them there?
Maj. James 'Jim' Lassiter: My word?
Col. Wagner: That's right.
Maj. James 'Jim' Lassiter: [laughing] Well colonel, for whatever it's worth, you can have it!
-- Richard Boone (as Maj. James 'Jim' Lassiter) in Rio Conchos (1964)
A Thunder of Drums
Year: 1961

Director:
Joseph M. Newman
Captain Stephen Maddocks: Bachelors make the best soldiers. All they have to lose is their loneliness.
-- Richard Boone (as Captain Stephen Maddocks) in A Thunder of Drums (1961)
The Alamo
Year: 1960

Director:
John Wayne
Gen. Sam Houston: I hope they remember. I hope Texas remembers.
The Alamo
Year: 1960

Director:
John Wayne
Gen. Sam Houston: Travis, I've never been able to like you. But you are one of the very few men I would trust with the life of Texas.
Vicki
Year: 1953

Director:
Harry Horner
Lt. Ed Cornell: When I put all my evidence together, I'll have you strapped in that chair so tight, you'll scream.
-- Richard Boone (as Lt. Ed Cornell) in Vicki (1953)
The Robe
Year: 1953

Director:
Henry Koster
Pontius Pilate: Give me water to wash my hands.
-- Richard Boone (as Pontius Pilate) in The Robe (1953)
Sam Hall: You annoy me, sheriff. When I leave your hotel I'm gonna squash you like I'd squash a bug.