Film Quotes by Sterling Hayden
19 quotes
Year: 1954
Director:
Lewis Allen
Director:
Lewis Allen
First Driver:
Officer, can you tell me the way to Three Rivers?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: About two miles to the first main intersection, then turn left. It's about sixty miles.
First Driver: Thanks, what town is this?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Suddenly.
First Driver: Suddenly what?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: No no, that's the name.
First Driver: [laughs] That's a funny name for a town.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Uh huh, hangover from the old days; that's the way things used to happen here, suddenly.
First Driver: I see.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Road agents, gamblers, gunfighters.
First Driver: Well, I take it things have changed.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Uh huh. Things happen so slow now, the town council is figuring to change the name to Gradually.
First Driver: [laughs] Thanks, officer.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Pleasure, come back.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: About two miles to the first main intersection, then turn left. It's about sixty miles.
First Driver: Thanks, what town is this?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Suddenly.
First Driver: Suddenly what?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: No no, that's the name.
First Driver: [laughs] That's a funny name for a town.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Uh huh, hangover from the old days; that's the way things used to happen here, suddenly.
First Driver: I see.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Road agents, gamblers, gunfighters.
First Driver: Well, I take it things have changed.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Uh huh. Things happen so slow now, the town council is figuring to change the name to Gradually.
First Driver: [laughs] Thanks, officer.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Pleasure, come back.
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Sterling Hayden
in
Suddenly
(1954)
Year: 1953
Director:
Ray Nazarro
Director:
Ray Nazarro
Smokestack:
It looks like we're already in the war everybody keeps talking about.
Capt. John Nelson: No, this is worse than war. In a war, at least you know who you're fighting.
Capt. John Nelson: No, this is worse than war. In a war, at least you know who you're fighting.
--
Sterling Hayden
(as Capt. John Nelson)
in
Kansas Pacific
(1953)
Year: 1957
Director:
Sidney Franklin Jr.*Carl K. Hittleman
Director:
Sidney Franklin Jr.*Carl K. Hittleman
Cleo:
I came to see you, Mr. York.
Jay Turner: I don't know why. All I wanted was a room and a bath.
Cleo: Mr. York, the management only sent you the key.
Jay Turner: Oh. Thank you.
Cleo: You're not very nice.
Jay Turner: Look, miss, I'm just a little old country boy, but I can tell that, whoever you are, you're not the room clerk.
Jay Turner: I don't know why. All I wanted was a room and a bath.
Cleo: Mr. York, the management only sent you the key.
Jay Turner: Oh. Thank you.
Cleo: You're not very nice.
Jay Turner: Look, miss, I'm just a little old country boy, but I can tell that, whoever you are, you're not the room clerk.
--
Sterling Hayden
in
Gun Battle at Monterey
(1957)
Year: 1952
Director:
Byron Haskin
Director:
Byron Haskin
Jim Vesser:
We've been surveying this route for three weeks!
McCabe: And so have we.
Bob Nelson: Don't get hot-headed Jim. Looks like it's for the courts to decide.
Jim Vesser: There's nothing in my orders that says I have to wait for any courts to make up their minds. We're going through.
Bob Nelson: Not along our stakes.
Jim Vesser: We'll throw them in the river.
McCabe: You throw one stake in the river and I'll throw you in right after it.
McCabe: And so have we.
Bob Nelson: Don't get hot-headed Jim. Looks like it's for the courts to decide.
Jim Vesser: There's nothing in my orders that says I have to wait for any courts to make up their minds. We're going through.
Bob Nelson: Not along our stakes.
Jim Vesser: We'll throw them in the river.
McCabe: You throw one stake in the river and I'll throw you in right after it.
--
Sterling Hayden
in
Denver and Rio Grande
(1952)
Year: 1954
Director:
Lesley Selander
Director:
Lesley Selander
Bart Laish:
It's clearly common knowledge out here that most Indians do not like to fight at night. An Indian killed at night, they believe, wanders forever in darkness.
--
Sterling Hayden
in
Arrow in the Dust
(1954)
Year: 1954
Director:
André De Toth
Director:
André De Toth
Det. Lt. Sims:
You know, it isn't what a man wants to do, Lacey, but what he has to do. Now take me - I love to smoke cigarettes, but the doctors say I can't have them. So what do I do? I chew toothpicks, tons of them.
--
Sterling Hayden
in
Crime Wave
(1954)
Year: 1957
Director:
Sidney Franklin Jr.*Carl K. Hittleman
Director:
Sidney Franklin Jr.*Carl K. Hittleman
Jay Turner:
Lady, where I come from they have an old saying, "It's not polite to ask a man his business unless you want to die."
Cleo: From the looks of those scars your manners must stink.
Jay Turner: Yeah. Yeah, I guess it is bad manners to turn your back on a man.
Cleo: From the looks of those scars your manners must stink.
Jay Turner: Yeah. Yeah, I guess it is bad manners to turn your back on a man.
--
Sterling Hayden
in
Gun Battle at Monterey
(1957)
Year: 1956
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Johnny Clay:
A friend of mine will be stopping by tomorrow to drop something off for me. He's a cop.
Joe: A cop? That's a funny kind of a friend.
Johnny Clay: Well, he's a funny kind of a cop.
Joe: A cop? That's a funny kind of a friend.
Johnny Clay: Well, he's a funny kind of a cop.
--
Sterling Hayden
(as Johnny Clay)
in
The Killing
(1956)
Year: 1956
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Johnny Clay:
You like money. You've got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart.
--
Sterling Hayden
(as Johnny Clay)
in
The Killing
(1956)
Year: 1956
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Johnny Clay:
You'd be killing a horse - that's not first degree murder, in fact it's not murder at all, in fact I don't know what it is.
--
Sterling Hayden
(as Johnny Clay)
in
The Killing
(1956)