Charles Durning movie quotes

“- Brown: Wouldn't it bother you to send an innocent man to his grave?
- Ross: Are you serious? We're talking about my career.
- Brown: But I'm the one who picked him, sir.
- Ross: Don't tell me you're having a guilty conscience.
- Brown: It was his shoe. I could have picked a black man with a green raincoat. There was a Japanese guy with five...” (continue)(continue reading)
Edward Herrmann - Brown
Charles Durning - Ross

“Look at that - red, green, black! It's like having four pens in one! What an exciting time to be alive!”

Charles Durning - Louis Bamberger

“After the coroner's investigation the bodies were taken to the mortuary where the undertaker took one look at them and said their bodies couldn't be reconstructed for the burial without six days of steady work.”

Charles Durning - John Clifford

“- John Clifford: I spent almost a year alone on the case of Curt Duncan with the trial and the testimonies and the background investigations. Now, I didn't come here today to look in your God damn folders, in fact I probably wouldn't be here at all if you had done your job right.
- Dr. Monk: This is a hospital, Mr. Clifford, not a penitentiary.”
Charles Durning - John Clifford
Rachel Roberts - Dr. Monk

“- Doc Hopper: Maybe this frog does everything. He talks, he sings, he dances, he tells jokes, he even rides a bicycle. Max, find me a frog and a bear in a tan Studebaker.
- Max: Gee, Doc, all I can see is a frog and a bear in a rainbow-colored Studebaker.”

Charles Durning - Doc Hopper
Austin Pendleton - Max

“Once a thief, always a thief.”
Charles Durning - Deke Yablonski

“My salvation is that I never took any interest in anything.”
Charles Durning - Charley

“Arthur! Will you leave the girl enough clothes on not to catch cold?”

Charles Durning - Senator Samuel Chapman

“- Henry Larson: Joanne, look at your sister. Doesn't she look snazzy?
- Joanne: Spectacular. New diet?”
Charles Durning - Henry Larson
Cynthia Stevenson - Joanne

“What he did to Hamlet, we are now doing to Poland.”

Charles Durning - Col. Erhardt

“- Charley: Take care of yourself. And pay your insurance.
- William 'Willy' Loman: It's funny, you know? After all the highways and the trains and the appointments and the years - you end up worth more dead than alive.
- Charley: Willy, nobody's worth nothin' dead. Did you hear what I said?”
Charles Durning - Charley
Dustin Hoffman - William 'Willy' Loman

“- Linda Loman: Why didn't anybody come?
- Charley: It was a very nice funeral.
- Linda Loman: But where are all the people he knew?”

Kate Reid - Linda Loman
Charles Durning - Charley