Baker I got the license number. I always had a good head for figures.
My only interest in your head is how easy it'll crack open.
Vincent Parry
Humphrey Bogart · 13 quotes
Irene Jansen
Lauren Bacall · 5 quotes
Madge Rapf
Agnes Moorehead · 1 quote
Most scenes together: Vincent Parry & Irene Jansen (5)
Dark Passage quotes
Baker Baker Just take it easy, Parry. You're gonna be better off that you ever were. As soon as I rake in the chips, I walk out of the game. Want your hat?
You make it sound pretty simple.
Baker It is, and don't make it complicated by trying to make a break. I'll have to kill ya and only make myself $5000. One way you die, either way I make money.
Cabby Nice looking suit you're wearing.
Thanks, and I don't feel chatty.
Cabby Some fares like to talk.
Well I don't.
Cabby You always that way?
Yep. That's why I don't have many friends.
Cabby Where do you want to go to?
Might as well make it the police station.
Cabby Don't be like that. You're doing all right. You're doing fine.
If it was easy for you to spot me, it'd be easy for others.
Cabby That's where you're wrong. Unless you'd be happier back in Quentin.
Yeah... yeah, sure. That's why they sent us up there. To make us happy.
Dr. Walter Coley Ever see any botched plastic jobs? If a man like me didn't like a fellow... he could surely fix him up for life. Make him look like a bulldog, or a monkey. I'll make you look as if you've lived.
I have, doc.
George Fellsinger Gert didn't hate you. Gert just didn't care for you. There's a difference. She would have walked out on you if she'd have found somebody permanent. She wouldn't frame you when she was dying. She was no prize package, but she wouldn't frame you. Madge framed you. Madge wanted to hook you, and when she found she couldn't have you, she framed you, sent you up for life. We both know that.
My attorney couldn't shake her story. Maybe someday she'll get run over or something.
George Fellsinger That's what I pray for every night.
Baby!
Here's looking at you kid!
That's my line!
I thought I had a good life here... but your going away doesn't make it seem good anymore. I've sort of joined your team and... and I don't look forward to being without you.
When I leave here, you're off my team, and lucky to be. Nah, I've got the Indian sign on me. It seems I can't win.
You won't tell me cause you think I'll come there. You think I'd follow you.
You'd be insane to follow me.
Was I insane to pick you up on the road? Was I crazy to let you stay here?
Yes.
[looking in a mirror after the bandages are taken off]
Same eyes. Same nose. Same hair. Everything else seems to be in a different place. I sure look older. That's all right, I'm not. If it's all right with me, it ought to be all right with you.
Can you shave?
The Doc said that I could.
Why don't you get dressed? I'll wait downstairs and sort of get a fresh impression.
...
[seeing Vincent after he shaves]
It's unbelievable. but it's good. I think I even like you better.
Well, don't let it give you any ideas.
What kind?
Don't change yours. I like it just as it is.
Don't you get lonely up here by yourself?
I was born lonely, I guess.
I'm hiding.
Detective
From what?
My wife, my friends, my family, everybody.
Detective
Come on now, it can't be as bad as all that.
Well, I tell you what you do. You go up there and spend seven years with my wife, and then if you're still in your right mind, come back down here and tell me about it.
[to Vincent]
I've cried myself to sleep at night because of you. She's got you now. She wants you very badly doesn't she? She's willing to run away with you and keep on running and ruin everything for herself. But she wouldn't care because she'd be with you and that's what she wants. Well she doesn't have you now. She'll never have you. Nobody will ever have you! And that's the way I want it! You're nothing but an escaped convict. Nobody knows what you wrote down. They'll believe me! They'll believe me!
You know, it's wonderful when guys like you lose out. Makes guys like me think maybe we got a chance in this world.