Film Quotes by Sterling Hayden
19 quotes
Johnny:
[starting a song] Her name was Emma Smalls, Emma Smalls.
--
Sterling Hayden
(as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan)
in
Johnny Guitar
(1954)
Johnny:
How many men have you forgotten?
Vienna: As many women as you've remembered.
Johnny: Don't go away.
Vienna: I haven't moved.
Johnny: Tell me something nice.
Vienna: Sure, what do you want to hear?
Johnny: Lie to me. Tell me all these years you've waited. Tell me.
Vienna: [without feeling] All those years I've waited.
Johnny: Tell me you'd a-died if I hadn't come back.
Vienna: [without feeling] I woulda died if you hadn't come back.
Johnny: Tell me you still love me like I love you.
Vienna: [without feeling] I still love you like you love me.
Johnny: [bitterly] Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Vienna: As many women as you've remembered.
Johnny: Don't go away.
Vienna: I haven't moved.
Johnny: Tell me something nice.
Vienna: Sure, what do you want to hear?
Johnny: Lie to me. Tell me all these years you've waited. Tell me.
Vienna: [without feeling] All those years I've waited.
Johnny: Tell me you'd a-died if I hadn't come back.
Vienna: [without feeling] I woulda died if you hadn't come back.
Johnny: Tell me you still love me like I love you.
Vienna: [without feeling] I still love you like you love me.
Johnny: [bitterly] Thanks. Thanks a lot.
--
Sterling Hayden
(as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan)
in
Johnny Guitar
(1954)
Johnny:
There's only two things in this world that a 'real man' needs: a cup of coffee and a good smoke.
--
Sterling Hayden
(as Johnny 'Guitar' Logan)
in
Johnny Guitar
(1954)
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California:
When a house is on fire everybody must come and help put it out... because the next time it just might be your house.
--
Sterling Hayden
in
Suddenly
(1954)
[Bart assumes the identity of Major Pepperis]
Christella Burke: We're not moving?
Bart Laish: Yes.
Christella Burke: Tonight?
Bart Laish: Tonight.
Christella Burke: But we can't Major.
Bart Laish: Why not?
Christella Burke: The trip will be too hard on the wounded soldiers.
Bart Laish: Miss Burke, back where I came from there happened to be dead soldiers.
Christella Burke: We're not moving?
Bart Laish: Yes.
Christella Burke: Tonight?
Bart Laish: Tonight.
Christella Burke: But we can't Major.
Bart Laish: Why not?
Christella Burke: The trip will be too hard on the wounded soldiers.
Bart Laish: Miss Burke, back where I came from there happened to be dead soldiers.
--
Sterling Hayden
in
Arrow in the Dust
(1954)
[first lines]
Max Reno: When the tide comes in, you'll be safe as if you were in your mother's arms. I picked this hideout a month ago. It's a beauty, ain't it? You're a lucky boy, Jim. You should have met me a long time ago.
Jay Turner: You'll never let me forget it, Reno...
Max Reno: What?
Jay Turner: How smart you are.
Max Reno: When the tide comes in, you'll be safe as if you were in your mother's arms. I picked this hideout a month ago. It's a beauty, ain't it? You're a lucky boy, Jim. You should have met me a long time ago.
Jay Turner: You'll never let me forget it, Reno...
Max Reno: What?
Jay Turner: How smart you are.
--
Sterling Hayden
in
Gun Battle at Monterey
(1957)
[last lines]
Last Driver: [stops car to ask for directions] Say, officer.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Yeah?
Last Driver: Could you tell me the way to Three Rivers?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Ah, you go down to the first intersection, you turn left, it's about sixty miles.
Last Driver: Thanks. What town in this?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Suddenly.
Last Driver: Suddenly what?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: No, that's the name.
Last Driver: That's a funny name for a town.
[begins to drive away]
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Oh, I don't know. I don't know about that.
Last Driver: [stops car to ask for directions] Say, officer.
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Yeah?
Last Driver: Could you tell me the way to Three Rivers?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Ah, you go down to the first intersection, you turn left, it's about sixty miles.
Last Driver: Thanks. What town in this?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Suddenly.
Last Driver: Suddenly what?
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: No, that's the name.
Last Driver: That's a funny name for a town.
[begins to drive away]
Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California: Oh, I don't know. I don't know about that.
--
Sterling Hayden
in
Suddenly
(1954)
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Sterling Hayden
(as Johnny Clay)
in
The Killing
(1956)
Dix Handley:
Why don't you quit cryin' and get me some bourbon?
--
Sterling Hayden
(as Dix Handley)
in
The Asphalt Jungle
(1950)