Edward G. Robinson movie quotes

View Quote You see, Otero. There's no use in being scared of any of these big guys. The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Yeah, I ain't doin' so bad in this business so far.

View Quote [looking at himself in the mirror, wearing his first tuxedo] Aaahhhh....all I need is a napkin over my arm!

View Quote [reading a newspaper] Little Caesar has never been found. According to the statement of Thomas Flaherty of the homicide squad, Little Caesar, the once-swaggering braggart of the underworld, wilted in the face of real danger and showed the world his cowardice. [he growls] Flaherty stated further that Little Caesar has contradicted his oft-repeated boast that he could dish it out and take it too. [he snarls again] When a real crisis arose, Rico couldn't take it. Flaherty ended his interview by remarking: 'Me-te-or-ic was Rico's rise from the gutter. It was in-ev-i-ta-ble that he should return there.' [calls Sgt. Flaherty] This is Rico speaking. Rico! R-I-C-O! Rico! Little Caesar, that's who! Listen, you crummy, flat-footed copper, I'll show you whether I've lost my nerve and my brains!

View Quote I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter... you're just a little taller.

View Quote You sure carried that ball. Only you fumbled on the goal line. Then you heaved an illegal forward pass and got thrown for a forty-yard loss. Now you can't pick yourself up because you haven't got a leg to stand on.

View Quote This Dietrichson business. It's murder, and murders don't come any neater. As fancy a piece of homicide as anybody ever ran into. Smart, tricky, almost perfect - but...I think Papa has it all figured out.

View Quote Well, who but a Nazi would deny that Karl Marx was a German because he was a Jew?

View Quote Oh, blast all this discussion! What good are words? I'm sick of words. Hang the repercussions and the responsibility! If I fail, I'm responsible. Leave the cell door open. Let him escape. Let him! It's our only chance! Let them threaten me with the bottom pits of hell and still I insist! This obscenity must be destroyed! Do you hear me? Destroyed!

View Quote Mary Longstreet: Mr. Wilson, I've never... I've never so much as even seen a Nazi.
Mr. Wilson: Well, you might without your realizing it. They look like other people and act like other people - when it's to their benefit.

View Quote After living in the USA for more than thirty-five years they called me an undesirable alien. Me. Johnny Rocco. Like I was a dirty Red or something!

View Quote Nothing to stop me from wiping you all out!

View Quote [to Frank] If you want to find out how good you are at taking it, we'll accommodate you. But let me warn you. Toots is a little rusty. Might slip. And that'd be tooo baaad.

View Quote Women are a universal problem in our business. Of course, uh, it's purely an academic question with me now, but, looking back, I think it's best not to look for a fixed thing. Just tie into something nice when you're away from the action and let it wear itself out.

View Quote Slade: How the hell did you know I didn't have the king or the ace?
Lancey Howard: I recollect a young man putting the same question to Eddie the Dude. "Son," Eddie told him, "all you paid was the looking price. Lessons are extra."

View Quote Lancey Howard: Gets down to what it's all about, doesn't it? Making the wrong move at the right time.
Cincinnati Kid: Is that what it's all about?
Lancey Howard: Like life, I guess. You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around you're second best. You might as well learn to live with it.

View Quote Sol: Oh, my God.
Presiding Librarian: What God, Mr. Roth? Where will we find Him?
Sol: [hesitates] Perhaps "at home". Yes: "at home".

View Quote Sol: You know. When I was a kid food was food. Before our scientific magicians poisoned the water, polluted the soil. Decimated plant and animal life. Why, in my day you could buy meat anywhere. Eggs, they had. Real butter. Fresh lettuce in the
Det. Thorn: I know. Sol. You told me before. A heat wave all year long. A greenhouse effect. Everything is burning up.

View Quote Sol: Son of a bitch. I haven't eaten like this in years.
Det. Thorn: I never ate like this.
Sol: And now you know what you've been missing. There was a world, once, you punk.
Det. Thorn: Yes, so you keep telling me.
Sol: I was there. I can prove it.
Det. Thorn: I know, I know. When you were young, people were better.
Sol: Aw, nuts. People were always rotten. But the world was beautiful.

View Quote Dathan: Pull! Pull for your lives!
Lilia: Is your life worth so much?

View Quote [After discovering that Joshua had marked his doorpost]
Dathan: Your stonecutter did this to me!
Lilia: All your gold cannot wipe that mark from you door, Dathan, or my heart. [walks away]
Dathan: Just for that, you’ll walk all the way to… Where are we going? [To the guard] Do you know where we’re going?
Guard: To hell, I hope!

View Quote Rameses: Where was his body found?
Pentaur: Buried in the sand, Royal One.
Egyptian Guard: This is Baka's knife.
Rameses: But there was no wound on the body. Baka was a powerful man. It would take strong hands to break him.
Egyptian Guard: The slave Joshua is a stonecutter.
Rameses: Go find me this Joshua.
Dathan: Joshua's strength didn't kill the master builder.
Rameses: Now speaks the rat that would be my ears.
Dathan: Too many ears tie a rat's tongue.
Pentaur: [to guards] Go, all of you.
Rameses: Well...who killed him?
Dathan: I am a poor man, Generous One. What I bring is worth much.
Rameses: I have paid you much, and you have brought me nothing.
Dathan: Now I bring you the world...true son of Pharaoh.
Rameses: You offer me the world when you cannot even bring me the deliverer. Who killed Baka?
Dathan: The deliverer.
Rameses: Would you play at words with me?
Dathan: No, Lord Prince.
Rameses: And this murderer has now fled to some distant land?
Dathan: No, Lord Prince.
Rameses: Name him.
Dathan: One who made himself a prince and judge over us. And if he knew I were here, he would kill me as he killed the Egyptian.
Rameses: I will hang you myself if you tire me further.
Dathan: There are those who would pay much for what my eyes have seen.
Rameses: Do you haggle with me like a seller of melons in the marketplace?
Dathan: No, I will not haggle, Great Prince. Here's your money. [Rameses hits his hand throwing coins] But for ten talons of fine gold, I'll give you the wealth of Egypt. Give me my freedom, and I'll give you the scepter. Give me the water girl Lilia, and I'll give you the princess of your heart's desire. Give me this house of Baka, and I'll give you the throne. Give me all that I ask...or give me leave to go.
Rameses: [pulls out his blade] I will give you more than leave to go. I will send you where you belong.
Dathan: I belong in your service, Glorious One.
Rameses: Very well. I will bargain with you. If what you say pleases me, I will give you your price, all of it. If not, I will give you the point of this blade through your lying throat. Agreed?
Dathan: Agreed. The deliverer...is Moses.
Rameses: [puts his blade on Dathan's neck] Draw one more breath to tell me why Moses or any other Egyptian would deliver the Hebrews.
Dathan: Moses is not Egyptian. He's Hebrew, the son of slaves.
Rameses: [gets quietly surprised] I will pay your price.