A character in All the King's Men (1949)

Sadie Burke quotes from All the King's Men (1949)

Mercedes McCambridge
Played by Mercedes McCambridge All the King's Men (1949) · 40 quotes

4th most-quoted character in All the King's Men (1949): in 4 of its 40 quotes
Most scenes with: Jack Burden (2)

A line from Sadie Burke

[to Willie} You've been framed, you poor sap...Oh you decoy, you wooden-head decoy, and you let 'em. You know what you are? Well, you're the goat. You are the sacrificial goat. You are a sap because you let 'em...They didn't have to pay a sap like you. Oh no. You were so full of yourself and hot air. All you wanted was a chance to stand up on your hind legs and make a speech, 'My Friends. My Friends, What This State Needs is a Good Five-Cent Cigar'.

More lines from Sadie Burke

1 quote
Sadie Burke

Yeah, I can see it. I gotta look in the mirror to be able to see it. Soft white skin, not like mine. I had smallpox when I was a kid. Where I lived, it seemed nearly all the kids had smallpox. It leaves your face hard. And she's got poise. Look at the way she holds her head at just the right angle. That takes training, that takes years of training. I see what Willie sees. Willie's got big ideas, Jack...A girl like that could be a governor's wife or even a president...He ditched Lucy, he ditched me, and he'll ditch you...He'll ditch everybody in the whole world because that's what Willie wants. Nobody in the world but him...You and your high-toned friends. What do they know? What do they know about anything? Why did you have to mix her in?

Scenes with Sadie Burke

2 scenes

You don't have to be smart to frame a guy like Willie Stark.

Sadie

No, no brother, you don't.

It is a frame, isn't it?...To split the vote and win the election for Harrison, huh?

Sadie

You know, why do ya ask?

I just want to make sure. Look, why don't you tell the boys to save their money? Willie couldn't steal a vote from Abe Lincoln in the cradle of the Confederacy.

Sadie

I wish the poor ...had enough sense to have somebody give him a good reason for the beating he's going to get. 'Cause this way, all he gets out of it is the ride. Hey, those speeches, ain't they awful? Ain't they just plain awful? Question to you: If somebody told him he was a sucker, do you think he'd quit?

I don't know, Sadie. I really don't know.

Sadie

How'd you get him here? He was out stiff.

The hair of the dog that bit him.

Sadie

Hair? He must have swallowed the dog.

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