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 Walter Huston Quotation"Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good." "I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinairy voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple." Upon accepting his Academy Award for "Sierra Madre," 1949: "Many years ago, ... many, MANY years ago [laughter from the audience], ... I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!" Movie Title: The Bad Man (1930) as Pancho Lopez: Pancho Lopez : I make ze love to you myself---personal...What? Because you are marry you do not wish to spik of love! Leesen Lady---eef Pancho Lopez want woman, he take her, dam queek! Movie Title: D.W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln' (1930) as Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln : Every time I dream, your face gets mixed up in it. Ann Rutledge : Does it really Abe? I know that's just flattery, but I love it. [death scene] Ann Rutledge : I know the truth, dear. I'm going to die. Abraham Lincoln : No, no, you won't dear. I won't let you! Ann Rutledge : We must be brave... it's getting so dark and lonesome! [A chorus of "Sweet By and By" swells up in the background] Abraham Lincoln : I've hung my hat and here it stays till they knock it off with a bayonet. From now on, Mary, I'm going to run this war! Movie Title: Duel in the Sun (1946) as The Sinkiller: The Sinkiller : You're a full-blown woman built by the devil to drive men crazy. The Sinkiller : I don't really know much about Sam Pierce, oh Lord, but from what I hear, he'd be needing no introduction to you. Seeing how Sam was snatched from his loved ones' arms before they even had time to get a good grip on hm, I'm counting on you to give him a better break up yonder. Movie Title: Rain (1932) as Alfred Davidson: Alfred Davidson : From now on you will be strong. There is to be no more fear. Radiant... beautiful... you will be one of the daughters of the kingdom. That's what you are now, Sadie, one of the daughters of the kingdom... radiant... beautiful. Movie Title: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) as Howard: [Howard eats, while Dobbs and Curtin snooze] Howard : Hey you fellas, how 'bout some beans? You want some beans? Goin' through some mighty rough country tomorrow, you'd better have some beans. Howard : We've wounded this mountain. It's our duty to close her wounds. It's the least we can do to show our gratitude for all the wealth she's given us. If you guys don't want to help me, I'll do it alone. Bob Curtin : You talk about that mountain like it was a real woman. Fred C. Dobbs : She's been a lot better to me than any woman I ever knew. Keep your shirt on, old-timer. Sure, I'll help ya. Howard : I know what gold does to men's souls. Howard : Ah, as long as there's no find, the noble brotherhood will last but when the piles of gold begin to grow... that's when the trouble starts. Howard : If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. T'aint good for your health. Howard : Without me, you two would die here, more miserable than rats! Howard : Say, answer me this one, will you? Why is gold worth some twenty bucks an ounce? Flophouse Bum : I don't know. Because it's scarce. Howard : A thousand men, say, go looking for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky. One out of a thousand. His find represents not only his own labor, but that of nine hundred ninety-nine others to boot. That's six thousand months, five hundred years, scrambling over a mountain, going hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold is worth what it is, mister, because of the human labor that went into the finding and getting of it. Flophouse Bum : I never thought of it just like that. Howard : Well, there's no other explanation, mister. Gold itself ain't good for nothing except making jewelry with and gold teeth. Howard : Gold's a devilish sort of thing, anyway. You start out, you tell yourself you'll be satisfied with 25,000 handsome smackers worth of it. So help me, Lord, and cross my heart. Fine resolution. After months of sweating yourself dizzy, growing short of provisions, and finding nothing, you finally come down to 15,000, then ten. Finally, you say, "Lord, let me find just $5,000 worth and I'll never ask for anything more the rest of my life." Flophouse Bum : $5,000 is a lot of money. Howard : Yeah, here in this joint it seems like a lot. But I tell you, if you was to make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away. Not even the threat of miserable death would keep you from trying to add $10,000 more. Ten you'd want to get twenty-five, twenty-five you'd want to get fifty, fifty, a hundred. Like roulette. One more turn, you know. Always one more. Howard : Now here's where we're bound for, hereabouts. Don't show properly whether there's mountains, swamp, or desert. That shows the makers of the map themselves don't know for sure. Once on the ground, all we gotta do is open our eyes and look around. Yes, and blow our noses, too. Believe it or not, I knew a fellow once who could smell gold like a jackass can smell water. Fred C. Dobbs : Why am I elected to go to the village? Why me instead of you and Curtin? Oh, don't think I don't see through that. You two've thrown in against me! The two days I'd be gone would give you plenty of time to discover where my goods are, wouldn't it? Howard : If you feel along those lines, why don't you take your goods with you? Fred C. Dobbs : And run the risk of having them taken from me by bandits? Howard : If you was to run into bandits, you'd be out of luck anyway. They'd kill you for the shoes on your feet. Fred C. Dobbs : Oh, so that's it. Everything's clear now. You're hoping bandits will get me. That would save you a lot of trouble, wouldn't it? And your consciences wouldn't bother you, neither! [last lines] Howard : Well, goodbye Curtin. Bob Curtin : Goodbye, Howard. Howard : Good luck. Bob Curtin : Same to you. Movie Title: Dragonwyck (1946) as Ephraim Wells: Miranda Wells : But there's everything here you could possibly want! Ephraim Wells : Everything is what no man should ever want. |
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