Paul Newman movie quotes

View Quote You know, I gotta hunch, Fat Man. I've gotta hunch it's me from here-on in...I mean, did that ever happen to you? When all of a sudden, you feel like you can't miss? 'Cause I dreamed about this game, Fat Man. And I dreamed about this game every night on the road...You know, this is my table, man, I own it...

View Quote [about Minnesota Fats] He is great! Geez, that old Fat Man. Look at the way he moves, like a dancer...And those fingers, them chubby fingers. And that stroke, it's like he's uh, like he's playin' a violin or somethin'.

View Quote Boy! Everybody, everybody wants a piece of me.

View Quote [singing] Don't ever hit your mother with a shovel. It will leave a dull impression on her mind.

View Quote Whatever they're selling, I don't want it.

View Quote If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

View Quote Boy, a guy goes to jail for a couple of days and the whole town goes to hell!

View Quote Peter: It's not gonna be easy being you, is it?
Sully: Don't expect much from yourself at the beginning. I couldn't do everything at first, either.

View Quote Sully: A condemned man has a right to a last request doesn't he? I got my truck out back whaddya say we get in the back get naked and see where it goes from there?
Birdy: Ok
Sully: Haven't you got any pride?
Birdy: Go to jail, Sully, it's where you belong.

View Quote [On why he cut the heads off parking meters] Small town, not much to do in the evenin'.

View Quote Oh come on. Stop beatin' it. Get out there yourself. Stop feedin' off me. Get out of here. I can't breathe. Give me some air.

View Quote Well that oughta be easy for a genuine son of a bitch.

View Quote Was that floatin' like a Cadillac, or was that stingin' like a Beemer? I'm confused. (Mater laughs)

View Quote I didn't come all this way just to see you quit.

View Quote Hot snot! We are back in business!

View Quote Maggie: [abput Big Daddy] You've got no cause to dislike him.
Brick: Do I dislike him?
Maggie: Well, it's obvious to everybody, especially to him. What's he ever done to you? What? Why do you hate him so much? What's he ever done to you?
Brick: Nothin'.

View Quote Big Daddy: Now, why do ya drink?!
Brick: Give me my crutch.
Big Daddy: Tell me first.
Brick: No, you give me a drink first and I'll tell ya.
Big Daddy: Tell me first! First you gotta tell me!
Brick: All right, disgust!
Big Daddy: DISGUST WITH WHAT?
Brick: You strike a hard bargain.
Big Daddy: Boy, do you want liquor that bad?
Brick: Yes, sir. I want liquor that bad. [Big Daddy hands him his crutch]
Big Daddy: Now tell me, what are you disgusted with?
Brick: Mendacity. You know what that is. It's lies and liars.
Big Daddy: Who's been lyin' to ya? Maggie? Has your wife been lyin' to ya?
Brick: No. Not one lie, not one person. The whole thing.
Big daddy: Mendacity. What do you know about mendacity? I could write a book on it...Mendacity. Look at all the lies that I got to put up with. Pretenses. Hypocrisy. Pretendin' like I care for Big Mama, I haven't been able to stand that woman in forty years. Church! It bores me. But I go. And all those swindlin' lodges and social clubs and money-grabbin' auxiliaries. It's-it's got me on the number one sucker list. Boy, I've lived with mendacity. Now why can't you live with it? You've got to live with it. There's nothin' to live with but mendacity. Is there?
Brick: Oh, yes sir. [Lifting his glass] You can live with this.
Big Daddy: That's not livin', that's a-dodgin away from life.
Brick: I want to dodge away from it.
Big Daddy: Then son, why don't you kill yourself?
Brick: 'Cause I like to drink.
Big Daddy: I can't talk to you.
Brick: I'm sorry.

View Quote Maggie: Why can't you lose your good looks, Brick? Most drinkin' men lose theirs. Why can't you? I think you've even gotten better-lookin' since you went on the bottle. You were such a wonderful lover...You were so excitin' to be in love with. Mostly, I guess, 'cause you were... If I thought you'd never never make love to me again... why I'd find me the longest, sharpest knife I could and I'd stick it straight into my heart. I'd do that. Oh Brick, how long does this have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I served my term? Can't I apply for a pardon?
Brick: Lately, that finishin' school voice of yours sounds like you was runnin' upstairs to tell somebody the house is on fire.
Maggie: Is it any wonder? You know what I feel like? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.
Brick: Then jump off the roof, Maggie, jump off it. Now cats jump off roofs and they land uninjured. Do it. Jump.
Maggie: Jump where? Into what?
Brick: Take a lover.
Maggie: [angrily] I don't deserve that! I can't see any man but you. With my eyes closed, I just see you. Why can't you get ugly Brick? Why can't you please get fat or ugly or somethin' so I can stand it?
Brick: You'll make out fine. Your kind always does.
Maggie: Oh, I'm more determined than you think. I'll win all right.
Brick: Win what? What is, uh, the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?
Maggie: Just stayin' on it, I guess. As long as she can.

View Quote C'mon Braden our line starts

View Quote Who are these guys I never even heard of them?

View Quote Jesus Christ, what a ****in' nightmare.

View Quote Urgency? Hey Dunc, if that fire was caused by fluky wiring in this building, we could get fires breaking out EVERYWHERE!!!

View Quote I don't know. Maybe they just oughta leave it the way it is. Kind of a shrine to all the the bullshit in the world.

View Quote (Doug gets a call for Harry Jernigan from the building's security station)
Doug Roberts: Harry?
Harry Jernigan: (picking up the phone) Jernigan.
(Jernigan learns that Lisolette Mueller is trapped on the 87th floor trying to rescue the Allbright family)
Jernigan: What? Dammit man, you should have sent a man up there!
(told the security station tried to telephone Mrs. Allbright)
Jernigan: How do you expect her to hear a phone call? She's deaf!
(asked if her two children can hear)
Jernigan: Sure the kids can hear!
(why they didn't respond to the phone)
Jernigan: I don't know, maybe they were in the shower or something when you called!
Kappy: (in background, speaking into his radio) Forward Command!
Jernigan: (still on the security phone) No, you stay where you are, I'll get them down!
Lorrie: There never were any firemen, were there?
Dan Bigelow: I said that to make it easier for you. I switched off the phones. There's no way to call out. Nobody knows we're up here.
Lorrie: Well, I always did want to die in bed.
Dan Bigelow: Nobody's going to die.
Lorrie: One thing - at least they'll never find out about us, will they?
(Dan soaks a towel in water, wraps it around his head and decides to make a run for help)
Dan Bigelow: I used to run the 100 in 10 flat.
Lorrie: Don't go.
Dan Bigelow: I'll be back with the whole fire department. On your mark...

View Quote I can always go back to whiskey; it's been very good to me. I mean, you're sitting in it, and I'm wearing it.

View Quote [to Carmen about Vincent] We got a racehorse here, a thoroughbred. You make him feel good, I teach him how to run!

View Quote [To Carmen] I'm not your daddy, I'm not your boyfriend, so don't be playing games with me. I'm your partner.

View Quote [Having slept with Joe's wife, Hud blames it on Lonnie - who has just come to collect Hud. Joe is ready to murder Lonnie on the spot, but Hud prevents him from doing so] Lay off him, he's diabetic; don't worry, I'll cool his temperature but good. [to Lonnie, as they're driving away] Relax, Fantan; you'll be able to charge a stud fee for yourself, after that story gets around town.

View Quote If you don't look out for yourself, the only helping hand you'll ever get is when they lower your pine box.

View Quote It happens to everybody - Nobody gets out of life alive.

View Quote No sense being a grifter if its the same as bein' a citizen.

View Quote Sorry I'm late, guys, I was takin' a crap.

View Quote Henry: Tough luck, Lonnehan. But that's what you get for playing with your head up your ass!
Doyle: The name's Lonnegan, DOYLE Lonnegan! You're gonna remember that, Mr. Shaw, or you're gonna get yourself another game.

View Quote Let's drink to Danny's honor. Let's wake him to God and hope he gets to Heaven... at least an hour before the devil finds out he's dead.

View Quote I curse... the ****... day... you were born. I curse it!

View Quote A man of honor always pays his debts... and keeps his word.

View Quote We will produce a defensive weapon that will make all offensive nuclear weapons obsolete, and thereby abolish the terror of nuclear warfare.

View Quote I was able to combine mathematical logic with romantic inconsistency.

View Quote I've often wondered if you professionals know what you're looking for when you go in and steal secret papers.

View Quote Megan Carter: I am free every night this week but Friday.
Michael Gallagher: How about Friday?
Megan Carter: Okay!

View Quote Michael Gallagher: Why aren't you married?
Megan Carter: How do you know I'm not?
Michael Gallagher: I don't see a ring.
Megan Carter: Haven't you heard of women's lib?
Michael Gallagher: Most of them are ugly.
Megan Carter: Is that supposed to be a compliment?

View Quote Megan Carter: Well, you got us all, didn't you Michael?
Michael Gallagher: [shaking his head] You got yourselves.

View Quote [to Judge Hoyle] You couldn't hack it as a lawyer. You were a bag man for the boys downtown and you still are, I know about you.

View Quote Frank Galvin: I changed my life today, what did you do?
Laura Fischer: I changed my room at the hotel.
Frank Galvin: Why did you do that?
Laura Fischer: TV didn't work.

View Quote You know, so much of the time we're just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true." And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. But today you are the law. You ARE the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion, they say, "Act as if ye had faith... and faith will be given to you." IF... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts.