“Out of the Past” quotes
(1947)
Title Out of the Past
Year 1947
Director Jacques Tourneur
Genre Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Year 1947
Director Jacques Tourneur
Genre Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
All actors – Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb, Steve Brodie, Virginia Huston, Paul Valentine, Dickie Moore, Ken Niles, Brooks Benedict, Oliver Blake, Eumenio Blanco, Wesley Bly, Mildred Boyd, Hubert Brill, James Bush, Ted Collins, James Conaty, Homer Dickenson, Lee Elson, Jess Escobar, Mary Field, Adda Gleason, Theresa Harris, Harry Hayden, John Kellogg, Mike Lally, Primo López, Philip Morris, Manuel París, Caleb Peterson, Jose Portugal, Charles Regan, Victor Romito, Tony Roux, Jeffrey Sayre, Wallace Scott, Archie Twitchell, William Van Vleck, Bill Wallace, Sam Warren, Frank Wilcox
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“- Kathie Moffat: Can't you even feel sorry for me?
- Jeff Bailey: I'm not going to try.”“- Petey: Nice!
- Jeff Bailey: Awfully cold around the heart.”“- Meta Carson: You are an idiot.
- Jeff Bailey: So is he.
- Meta Carson: You think so?
- Jeff Bailey: Why not? He's in love with you.”“- Meta Carson: I was expecting you.
- Jeff Bailey: Well... I wasn't expecting you.
- Meta Carson: Should I take that as a compliment?”“They say the day you die, your name is written in the clouds.”
I could go down to the cliff and look at the sea like a good tourist. But, it's no good if there isn't somebody you can turn to and say "Nice view there". It's the same with the churches, the relics, the moonlight or a Cuba Libre.
“It was the bottom of the barrel and I scraped it. But I didn't care. I had her.”
“I never saw her in the daytime. We seemed to live by night. What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked. I didn't know where she lived. I never followed her. All I ever had to go on was a place and time to see her again. I don't know what we were waiting for. Maybe we thought the world would end.”
“- Leonard Eels: All women are wonders, because they reduce all men to the obvious.
- Meta Carson: So do martinis.”“She's a clever little girl and she's always a hop, skip, and a jump ahead.”
“Nothing in the world is any good unless you can share it.”
“- Kathie Moffat: I've never stopped loving you. I was afraid and no good, but I've never stopped. Even if you'd hated me - did you?
- Jeff Bailey: Yes.”“Your picture doesn't do you justice, baby.”
“- Kathie Moffat: Oh, Jeff. I've missed you. I've wondered about you and prayed you'd understand. Can you understand?
- Jeff Bailey: You prayed, Kathie?”“- Jeff Bailey: I didn't know you were so little.
- Kathie Moffat: I'm taller than Napoleon.
- Jeff Bailey: You're prettier, too.”“Maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.”
“- Kathie Moffat: I'm sorry he didn't die.
- Jeff Bailey: Give him time.”“- Ann Miller: She can't be all bad. No one is.
- Jeff Bailey: Well, she comes the closest.”
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