Burt Lancaster movie quotes

“- Mrs. Alexis Richardson: You know, you're quite an attractive man.
- Frankie Madison: Keep goin'.
- Mrs. Alexis Richardson: How far do you want me to go?
- Frankie Madison: I'm at the plate. You're doing the pitching.”
Kristine Miller - Mrs. Alexis Richardson
Burt Lancaster - Frankie Madison

“- Mrs. Alexis Richardson: I'm Mrs. Alexis Richardson.
- Frankie Madison: You say that like it was spelt in capital letters.”
Kristine Miller - Mrs. Alexis Richardson
Burt Lancaster - Frankie Madison

“- Harry Doyle: You quit?
- Archie Long: Couldn't take it anymore. People treating me like dirt ever since I got out of jail. Sweeping out toilets, scraping crud off dishes, my girlfriend tryin' to kill me with sex - and I'm dressing like Bozo the Clown, just to fit in! I don't want to fit in anymore.
- Harry Doyle: That makes two of us.”
Burt Lancaster - Harry Doyle
Kirk Douglas - Archie Long

“Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.”
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“I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.”
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“I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.”
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“I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.”
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“A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.”
Burt Lancaster

“Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?”
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“Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.”
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“Everybody obviously wants deeply to laugh at anything today. It's like the war years in that people wants escapism, big escapism. What the devil, it's a nervous world we live in. But it's the affluent society too and we're all on a spending spree.”
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“The bigger the picture, the bigger the ticket, the better.”
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“There are times when I want to get out of the business. Everybody wants to make these big epic entertainments. They're empty. And worst of all, a lot of them just aren't very well made, but the critics go overboard.”
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“You look like a fire sale.”

Burt Lancaster - Lou

“- Harry Doyle: I ain't goin' to your funeral!
- Archie Long: You ain't invited!”
Burt Lancaster - Harry Doyle
Kirk Douglas - Archie Long

“There are no midgets in the United States Air Force.”
Burt Lancaster - Gen. Lawrence Dell

“- Richie Evans: I got a call from the rest home today. She said that you were being a disruptive influence during lunch. That you refused to eat your spinach soufflé, and that you caused a riot. And that last night you made love to a woman.
- Harry Doyle: Do you make love to women, Richie?
- Richie Evans: Well, yes. Of course I do.
- Harry Doyle...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dana Carvey - Richie Evans
Burt Lancaster - Harry Doyle

“To feel the tingling in your arm as you connect with the ball. To run the bases, stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That's my wish, Ray Kinsella. That's my wish. And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true?”
Burt Lancaster - Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham

“- Levi Rockwell: Pay attention to Dwayne. He's got a new joke he wants to tell us. It's about belly dancers. You're on, Dwayne.
- Dwayne Hanson: Dad, you're putting me on the spot, here. They're going to put tomatoes on yo-yos so they can hit me twice.”
Burt Lancaster - Levi Rockwell
Kevin Spacey - Dwayne Hanson

“- Archie Long: We could take down the flier!
- Harry Doyle: The Gold Coast Flier? That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard!
- Archie Long: That's what you said about the armored truck.
- Harry Doyle: No, I said the armored truck was dumb. This is stupid.”
Kirk Douglas - Archie Long
Burt Lancaster - Harry Doyle

“- Harry Doyle: The last time we were 30 years younger and we got caught. We were put away for 30 years!
- Archie Long: Now we're 30 years smarter. We woun't make the same mistakes.
- Harry Doyle: That's right. Because we ain't gonna do it.”

Burt Lancaster - Harry Doyle
Kirk Douglas - Archie Long

“- Leon B. Little: I wanna get a hundred of those coppers.
- Harry Doyle: There's only fifty Leon.
- Leon B. Little: So? I'll shoot 'em all twice!”
Eli Wallach - Leon B. Little
Burt Lancaster - Harry Doyle

“Nothing's as good as a midnight pee in the ocean.”
Burt Lancaster - Levi Rockwell

“- Lou: I'm a lover!
- Grace: Numbnuts!”
Burt Lancaster - Lou
Kate Reid - Grace

“- Maxwell Danforth: Suppose I was to tell you that our enemies are capable of impairing rational thought, of dismantling our willingness to defend ourself, of dissociating whole societies from their value systems.
- John Tanner: You mean they've got televisions.”
Burt Lancaster - Maxwell Danforth
Rutger Hauer - John Tanner