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 Sterling Hayden Quotation"Incredible, really - how I got away with it; parlaying nine years at sea into two decades of posturing." "To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about." "There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle" dialogue." "I have yet to invest the first dime because I don't believe in unearned income. The question is inevitable: 'If you don't believe in taking what you don't earn, then how could you be reconciled to the astronomical figures [you make]?' I never was. Furthermore, I couldn't stand the work." On his films: "Bastards, most of them, conceived in contempt of life and spewn out onto screens across the world with noxious ballyhoo; saying nothing, contemptuous of the truth, sullen, and lecherous." Hated acting "because, in the final analysis, an actor is only a pawn - brilliant sometimes, rare and talented, capable of bringing pleasure and even inspiration to others, but no less a pawn for that." Hayden's agent: "This man was born in the wrong century. He should have been a sea captain in the 1800's." On his fling with Communism: "What did I care for labor? For racial discrimination? For civil liberties and the war between the classes? Oh, I cared in my own fashion. I cared just enough to embrace these things as props, flailing away night after night at semi-drunken parties." "I wonder whether there has ever before been a man who bought a schooner and joined the Communist Party all on the same day." On quitting the Communist Party: "I'd rather be wrong on my own than be right on somebody else's say-so." "I'm not a member of the Party. I'm not under the discipline or influence of the Party, not that I know of. What's more, I never was, even when I was a member." "I did nothing in 1947, for which Paramount paid me $70,000." On acting: "You don't need talent to star in a motion picture. All you need is some intelligence AND the ability to work freely in front of the lens. Why do I always freeze? I went through the war. I jumped out of bombers. I played kick-the-can with E-boats when all we had was a lousy forty-foot dragger with six machine guns and a top speed of six knots. Yet whenever I get a closeup in a nice warm studio, I curl up and die." John Huston to SH: "The next time somebody says you can't act, tell them to call Huston." On confessing his Communist ties before Congress: "I don't think you have the foggiest notion of the contempt I have had for myself since the day I did that thing." (and years later:) "It's the one thing in my life that I'm categorically ashamed of." To producers at end of each filming: "When you took me, who did you REALLY want for the picture?" John Huston: "Sterling is one of the few actors I know who has grown over the years. . . . There is a kingliness about Sterling now." "There is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money." - Sterling Hayden after filming "Johnny Guitar" Movie Title: Zero Hour! (1957) as Treleaven: Treleaven : I guess I picked the wrong week to give up smoking. Movie Title: Johnny Guitar (1954) as Johnny: Johnny : There's only two things in this world that a 'real man' needs: a cup of coffee and a good smoke. Kid : I didn't get your name stranger. Johnny : Guitar. Johnny Guitar. Kid : You call that a name? Johnny : Care to try and change it? Kid : I like you, Guitar Man. How'd you like to work for me? Johnny : I wouldn't. Kid : Now all of a sudden I don't like you. Johnny : Now that makes me real sad. Johnny : How many men have you forgotten? Vienna : As many women as you've remembered. Johnny : Don't go away. Vienna : I haven't moved. Johnny : Tell me something nice. Vienna : Sure, what do you want to hear? Johnny : Lie to me. Tell me all these years you've waited. Tell me. Vienna : [without feeling] All those years I've waited. Johnny : Tell me you'd a-died if I hadn't come back. Vienna : [without feeling] I woulda died if you hadn't come back. Johnny : Tell me you still love me like I love you. Vienna : [without feeling] I still love you like you love me. Johnny : [bitterly] Thanks. Thanks a lot. Johnny : [starting a song] Her name was Emma Smalls, Emma Smalls. Movie Title: Arrow In the Dust (1954) as Bart Laish: Maj. Andy Pepperis : Gambler, gunfighter and now deserter? Bart Laish : Yeah Maj. Andy Pepperis : I looks like you added color to the list. [Bart assumes the identity of Major Pepperis] Christella Burke : We're not moving? Bart Laish : Yes. Christella Burke : Tonight? Bart Laish : Tonight. Christella Burke : But we can't Major. Bart Laish : Why not? Christella Burke : The trip will be too hard on the wounded soldiers. Bart Laish : Miss Burke, back where I came from there happened to be dead soldiers. Bart Laish : It's clearly common knowledge out here that most Indians do not like to fight at night. An Indian killed at night, they believe, wanders forever in darkness. Bart Laish : But after your father died, why didn't you go back home? Christella Burke : Delaware is small. It's crowded with too many memories. Movie Title: The Killing (1956) as Johnny Clay: Johnny Clay : You'd be killing a horse - that's not first degree murder, in fact it's not murder at all, in fact I don't know what it is. Johnny Clay : A friend of mine will be stopping by tomorrow to drop something off for me. He's a cop. Joe : A cop? That's a funny kind of a friend. Johnny Clay : Well, he's a funny kind of a cop. Johnny Clay : You like money. You've got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart. Johnny Clay : Alright sister, that's a mighty pretty head you got on your shoulders. You want to keep it there or start carrying it around in your hands? Sherry Peatty : Maybe we could compromise and put it on your shoulder. I think that'd be nice, don't you? [last lines] Fay : Johnny, you've got to run! Johnny Clay : Eh, what's the difference? Movie Title: Nine to Five (1980) as Russell Tinsworthy: [Hart is about to be "promoted," and shanghaied from CC to Brazil, by Tinsworthy] Franklin M. Hart Jr. : Mister Tinsworthy, I can't tell you how much I appreciate this, but... Russell Tinsworthy : So you accept. Very good. Let's just go on up to Hinkle's floor and work out the details, shall we? [He marches Hart into the elevator] Franklin M. Hart Jr. : Mister Tinsworthy, the JUNGLE...! Russell Tinsworthy : Jungle, hell! I'm offering you the chance of a lifetime! Two or three years down there, and you'll never wanna come back. Besides, I hear your wife just LOVES to travel. Franklin M. Hart Jr. : My WIFE?... Oh, God... Mister Tinsworthy...! Russell Tinsworthy : [firmly cutting him off] Hart! Let me tell you one thing: I didn't get where I am today by taking "no" for answer. Franklin M. Hart Jr. : [feebly] Brazil...? I guess it could be worse. Movie Title: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) as General Jack D. Ripper: General Jack D. Ripper : Your Commie has no regard for human life. Not even his own. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Erm, what about the planes, sir? Surely we must issue the recall code immediately. General Jack D. Ripper : Group Captain, the planes are not gonna be recalled. My attack orders have been issued, and the orders stand. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Well, if you'll excuse me saying so, sir, that would be, to my way of thinking, rather... well, rather an odd way of looking at it. You see, if a Russian attack was in progress, we would certainly not be hearing civilian broadcast. General Jack D. Ripper : Are you certain of that, Mandrake? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Oh, I'm absolutely positive about it. General Jack D. Ripper : And what if it is true? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Well, I'm afraid I'm still not with you, sir, because, I mean, if a Russian attack was not in progress, then your use of Plan R - in fact, your order to the entire Wing... Oh. I would say, sir, that there were something dreadfully wrong somewhere. General Jack D. Ripper : Now why don't you just take it easy, Group Captain, and please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater, and help yourself to whatever you'd like. [Mandrake snaps to attention and salutes] Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : General Ripper, Sir, as an officer in Her Majesty's Air Force, it is my clear duty, under the present circumstances, to issue the recall code, upon my own authority, and bring back the Wing. If you'll excuse me, sir. [He finds the doors locked] Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : I'm afraid, sir, I must ask you for the key, and the recall code. Have you got them handy, sir? General Jack D. Ripper : Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : No, I don't think I do, sir, no. General Jack D. Ripper : He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. General Jack D. Ripper : Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Lord, Jack. General Jack D. Ripper : You know when fluoridation first began? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : I... no, no. I don't, Jack. General Jack D. Ripper : Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Uh, Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory? General Jack D. Ripper : Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Hmm. General Jack D. Ripper : Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Hmm. General Jack D. Ripper : I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : No. General Jack D. Ripper : But I... I do deny them my essence. General Jack D. Ripper : Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face. General Jack D. Ripper : Mandrake, were you ever a prisoner of war? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Well, yes I was Jack as a matter of fact I was. General Jack D. Ripper : Did they torture you? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Yes Jack, I was tortured by the Japanese, if you must know, not a pretty story. General Jack D. Ripper : Well, what happened? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Oh Well, I don't know, Jack, difficult to think of under these conditions, but well, they got me on the old Ragoon-Ichinawa railway. I was laying train lines for the bloody Japanese puff-puff's. General Jack D. Ripper : No, I mean when they tortured you did you talk? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Ah, oh, no, I don't think they wanted me to talk really, I don't think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having a bit of fun the swines. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras. General Jack D. Ripper : The base is being put on Condition Red. I want this flashed to all sections immediately. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Condition Red, sir, yes, jolly good idea. That keeps the men on their toes. General Jack D. Ripper : Group Captain, I'm afraid this is not an exercise. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Not an exercise, sir? General Jack D. Ripper : ...It looks like we're in a shooting war. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Oh hell. Are the Russians involved, sir? General Jack D. Ripper : Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Well, I can't say I have. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Is it that bad, sir? General Jack D. Ripper : Looks like it's pretty hairy. Movie Title: The Godfather (1972) as Capt. McCluskey: Capt. McCluskey : Is the Italian food good here? Sollozzo : Yeah, try the veal; it's the best in the city. Movie Title: El Paso (1949) as Bert Donner: Bert Donner : I see you found yourself a new coat. Clayton Fletcher : Yes. A coat of a brave man who died defending the rights of his people. There were two bullet holes in the back of it. You heard of Señor Montez? Bert Donner : Montez made the mistake of interfering with the law. If you're smart, you won't make the same mistake. Clayton Fletcher : If I do, Donner, I'll remember to not turn my back on you. Movie Title: Naked Alibi (1954) as Chief Joe Conroy: Chief Joe Conroy : Are you in the habit of hauling in cut-up strangers? Marianna : Yeah. It's a hobby with me. |
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