Quotes from Robert Mitchum movies and TV shows - page 2 of 3

Jeff: It was the bottom of the barrel, and I was scraping it.

Jeff: Why me?
Whit: Well, I know a lot of smart guys, and a few honest ones. And you're both.

Kathie: I think we deserve a break.
Jeff: We deserve each other.

Meta Carson: For a man who appears to be clever, you can certainly act like an idiot.
Jeff: That's one way to be clever! Look like an idiot.
Meta Carson: You look like an underweight ghost.

Jeff: Now, do you wanna talk business, or do you wanna play house...?

Whit: You just sit and stay inside yourself. You wait for me to talk. I like that.
Jeff: I never found out much listening to myself.

Kathie: Oh, Jeff. I've missed you. I've wondered about you and prayed you'd understand. Can you understand?
Jeff: You prayed, Kathie?

Kathie: Can't you even feel sorry for me?
Jeff: I'm not going to try.
Kathie: Jeff.
Jeff: Just get out, will you? I have to sleep in this room.

Jeff: I never saw her in the daytime. We seemed to live by night. What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked. I didn't know where she lived. I never followed her. All I ever had to go on was a place and time to see her again. I don't know what we were waiting for. Maybe we thought the world would end.

Jeff: Nothing in the world is any good unless you can share it.

Kathie: I don't want to die.
Jeff: Neither do I, baby, but if I have to, I'm going to die last.

Jeff: If you'll drop this Junior League patter we may get the conversation down where it belongs.
Meta Carson: You worried about something?
Jeff: I don't know. Should I be?
Meta Carson: Not if you do what you're told.
Jeff: That's why I'm here. I do what I'm told. People trust me. Whit even trusts me twice. Do you?
Meta Carson: Just as far as I have to.

Eels: Your uh... cousin is a very charming young lady.
Jeff: No he isn't. His name is Norman, and he's a bookmaker in Cleveland Ohio.

Jeff: Let's go down to the bar. We can cool off while we try to impress each other.

Jeff: You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Ann: You do to keep it.

Jeff: I didn't know you were so little.
Kathie: I'm taller than Napoleon.
Jeff: You're prettier, too.

Ann: She can't be all bad. No one is.
Jeff: Well, she comes the closest.

Jeff: How big a chump can you get to be? I was finding out.

Kathie: I didn't know what I was doing. I, I didn't know anything except how much I hated him. But I didn't take anything. I didn't, Jeff. Don't you believe me?
Jeff: Baby, I don't care.

Kathie: Don't you see you've only me to make deals with now?
Jeff: Build my gallows high, baby.