“Deathtrap” quotes

“- Myra Bruhl: Have you thought about collaboration?
- Sidney Bruhl: I don't want any help in killing Clifford Anderson. I want to strike the blow myself.”
Dyan Cannon - Myra Bruhl
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“I want a short cut, Sidney. And I really don't care whose yard I cut through, if you understand me.”
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson

“- Sidney Bruhl: Clifford, I hate to ask this, but could you give me your own special definition of success, being gangbanged in the shower in the state penitentiary?
- Clifford Anderson: I knew you were going to have reservations about it.
- Sidney Bruhl: Reservations? I am standing here, petrified, stupefied, horrified! How's that for bloody...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson

“Nothing recedes like success.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“It has to be a playwright who writes thrillers because, I don't know, Arthur Miller probably has old sample cases hanging on the wall.”
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson

“I have a name and a reputation! Somewhat tattered, perhaps. But still good for dinner invitations and summer seminars.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“- Clifford Anderson: Would you like me to explain?
- Sidney Bruhl: What, that you're a lunatic with a death-wish?
- Clifford Anderson: I've got the same wish you have, Sidney - a success wish!”
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“I'll bury him in the yard. No, the vegetable patch! Easier digging.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“- Sidney Bruhl: Why make it anywhere? Why make it?
- Clifford Anderson: Because it's there, Sidney!
- Sidney Bruhl: That's mountains, not plays! Plays are not there until some asshole writes them!”
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson

“I mean, what's the point in owning a mace, if you don't use it?”

Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“- Clifford Anderson: Are you trying to say that you don't think that you can trust me?
- Sidney Bruhl: How clearly you put it!”
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“- Sidney Bruhl: Clifford, my dear, in your run-ins with the law, in your infancy so to speak, did any of the doctors, policemen, shrinks, did any of them ever use... the... word...?
- Clifford Anderson: What word Sidney?
- Sidney Bruhl: Sociopath?
- Clifford Anderson: Does that word... frighten you, Sidney?
- Sidney Bruhl: No, no. It does...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson

- Sidney Bruhl: This is Clifford Anderson, my secretary; my friend, Porter Milgrim.
- Clifford Anderson: How do you do, sir?
- Porter Milgrim: How do you do?
- Clifford Anderson: Nice to meet you.
- Sidney Bruhl: I would say "my attorney", but he'd bill me.
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson
Henry Jones - Porter Milgrim