Note: ranked #18 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
Arthur "Cody" Jarrett
James Cagney · 13 quotes
Fallon
5 quotes
Verna
Virginia Mayo · 5 quotes
Evans
John Archer · 4 quotes
Ma Jarrett
Margaret Wycherly · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Arthur "Cody" Jarrett & Verna (4), Fallon & Evans (4), Arthur "Cody" Jarrett & Ma Jarrett (3)
White Heat quotes
Page 2 of 2Come out with your hands up, the man says! How do you like THAT,MA? Here's my answer, you dirty......
You know something, Verna, if I turn my back for long enough for Big Ed to put a hole in it, there'd be a hole in it. [he laughs] Big Ed ... great big Ed. Y'know why they call 'im that? 'Cause his ideas are big. One day he's gonna get a really big one ... about me. And it'll be his last.
You're just lonesome, lonesome, like me...Verna? All I ever had was Ma...I was, uh, I was just walkin' around out there talkin' to mine...well, my old lady never had anything, always on the run, always on the move - some life. First there was my old man, died kickin' and screamin' in a nuthouse. Then my brother. And after that, it was takin' care of me. Always tryin' to put me on top. Top of the world, she used to say. And then, times when I was losin' my grip, there she'd be right behind me, pushin' me back up again. And now...That was a good feelin' out there, talkin' to her, just me and Ma. Good feelin'. Liked it. Maybe I am nuts.