His Kind of Woman (1951)

Robert Mitchum: Dan Milner

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Quotes 

• Dan Milner : I'm too young to die. How about you?

  Mark Cardigan : Too well-known.

  Dan Milner : Well, if you do get killed, I'll make sure you get a first-rate funeral in Hollywood, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

  Mark Cardigan : I've already had it. My last picture died there.

• Lenore Brent : They tell me you killed Ferraro. How did it feel?

  Dan Milner : He didn't say.

• Mark Cardigan : What about tomorrow morning?

  Dan Milner : All right, what about it?

  Mark Cardigan : The hunting. I've got all the equipment you need. How about me rootin' you out about five.

  Dan Milner : Five?

  Lenore Brent : He shoots them as they crawl out of bed.

• Lenore Brent : Put some oil on my back, will you? Go on.

  [By the pool: Milner to rubs the oil on her bare back] 

  Lenore Brent : Mmm, that's nice. You've got good hands.

  Dan Milner : You like it nice, don't you?

  Lenore Brent : Mm-hmm. I've always had everything nice. My grandfather had more money than he could count, but you'd like him in spite of it.

  Dan Milner : I could like him *for* it!

  Lenore Brent : He finally gave me a million dollars just so he could say every guy I met was after my money.

  Dan Milner : And were they?

  Lenore Brent : Oh, he'd have *loved* you for that snide crack.

• Mark Cardigan : Mind tellin' me who I'm shootin' at, and why?

  Dan Milner : If this were one of your pictures you could just step right out there and ask 'em. But I'm afraid their guns are loaded.

  Mark Cardigan : You know something? All my life I've suspected myself of being a phony. Half of it I've been acting. A hundred lives and a hundred stories, all phony. This is the only time the guns were ever loaded with anything but blanks.

  Dan Milner : How's it feel?

  Mark Cardigan : Fine... You couldn't know how fine.

• Jose Morro : She is beautiful as well as interesting, isn't she?

  Dan Milner : She's beautiful - that's always interesting.

• Dan Milner : Well, you see how it is: fools get away with the impossible.

  Lenore Brent/Liz Brady : That's because they're the only ones who try it.

• Dan Milner : Whenever I have nothing to do and I can't think, I always iron my money.

  Lenore Brent : What d'ya do when you're broke?

  Dan Milner : When I'm broke, I press my pants.

• Dan Milner : Are you in the oil business, or are you just spending your alimony all at once?

  Lenore Brent : I'm what you'd call a spoiled child of the rich.

  Dan Milner : Well, how do you do? I'm what you'd call a spoiled child of the poor.

• Dan Milner : Do you mind if I join you?

  Lenore Brent : Seems you have.

• [Saying goodbye] 

  Dan Milner : I'll see ya all of a sudden, Sam.

• Mark Cardigan : I'm out of my mind to ask her... She hates everything I do.

  Dan Milner : She likes you.

  Mark Cardigan : Yeh, I know, that's what I don't understand.

  Dan Milner : If she liked me, man, I wouldn't try to understand.

• Dan Milner : [to a self-proclaimed heiress]  I haven't met as many rich dames as I'd like to, but I know one thing - they all have a terror of talking about their dough.

• Dan Milner : [to a dame]  You know, you could be a handy thing to have around the house if a man went broke.

• Dan Milner : Where have you been? I looked for you all day.

  Lenore Brent : I stayed in bed. "Nimrod" went hunting again.

• Lenore Brent : Wherever I am, I sing at the drop of a hat.

  Dan Milner : Even if you have to supply the hat?

  Lenore Brent : Exactly!

• Thompson : Put the gun down now. The guy behind you has a bigger one.

  Dan Milner : Let's keep it nice and polite, huh? Have him introduce himself.

• Dan Milner : I was just getting ready to take my tie off. Wondering whether I should hang myself with it.

• Lenore Brent : You're not leaving?

  Dan Milner : My bungalow costs $75 a day. I thought I'd go spend some time in it.

• Myron Winton : You're probably wondering what a man like myself is doing in an odd place like this.

  Dan Milner : No.

• Dan Milner : Whenever I have nothing to do and I can't think, I iron my money.

  Lenore Brent : What do you do when you're broke?

  Dan Milner : When I'm broke, I press my pants. One time a dame walked into my room, just like you did right now. She'd been out in the rain. You know, I pressed her dress dry for her.

  Lenore Brent : What did she do?

  Dan Milner : Went in the kitchen, poured me some coffee.

• Lenore Brent : I think you're the strangest man I ever knew.

  Dan Milner : What makes you think you know me?

• Bill Lusk : I'm a social outcast. Nobody's speaking to me.

  Dan Milner : I'll speak to you. What would you like to talk about?

  Bill Lusk : Myself, naturally.

• Lenore Brent : I've never been that direction. I've been the other way, but I'd like to be going that way. Tomorrow. Now.

  Dan Milner : Why? What's out there?

  Lenore Brent : Islands. Samoa and Tahiti.

  Dan Milner : Bikini.

  Lenore Brent : You're such a wise guy.

  Dan Milner : You're not gonna find a thing except yourself.

  Lenore Brent : I'd even like finding that.

• Sam : Where you been? I ain't seen you since the last rain.

  Dan Milner : Palm Springs.

  Sam : Hustling the millionaires?

  Dan Milner : I went down there to cure a cold. I wound up doing 30 days.

  Sam : For what?

  Dan Milner : For nothing.

  Sam : I don't get it?

  Dan Milner : Well, I got it. Somebody is putting the salt on me.

• Dan Milner : How's it go Sam?

  Sam : Nothing to it.

  Dan Milner : Just let me have a glass of milk.

• Dan Milner : I'm gonna go home and go to bed, where I can't get into trouble.

• Dan Milner : I never bet on a race in my life that wasn't fixed.

• Dan Milner : Tonight, Oley Chester had me spanked for nothing.

• Dan Milner : You really believe in breaking a man down, don't you?

  Corley : Just bending him a little, Milner, that's all.

• Dan Milner : You got anything to eat?

  Barkeeper in Nogales : Chili.

  Dan Milner : And beans?

  Barkeeper in Nogales : And beans.

• Arnold : My proposition's a very simple one.

  Dan Milner : Well, I'm a very simple guy.

• Dan Milner : I'm a professional gambler.

  Jose Morro : Who isn't?

• Jose Morro : I just thought it would be nicer if we understood each other.

  Dan Milner : We'll keep it very nice.

• Dan Milner : Are you for real? You sing like you do it for a living.

  Lenore Brent : Thanks. I'd rather sing than clip coupons; but, I have a million dollars, so no one takes me seriously.

  Dan Milner : With a million dollars, honey, it doesn't matter.

  Pilot : Fasten your seat belts, please.

• Dan Milner : Hey, you sing pretty good. I thought I'd buy you a drink.

  Lenore Brent : I'm drinking champagne.

  Dan Milner : I'm hip. Eighteen dollars a bottle.

• Dan Milner : Milner, Dan.

  Lenore Brent : Mine's Brent, Lenore.

• Myron Winton : You haven't heard about the thing with Mark Cardigan?

  Dan Milner : I've never even heard of Mark Cardigan.

• Myron Winton : You'll excuse me, won't you? I always take a nap before dinner.

  Dan Milner : Do you sleep with your eyes open or shut?

• Dan Milner : Will that dance offer still be good in an hour?

  Lenore Brent : You could try me.

• Dan Milner : I'm gonna ask you one more question you won't answer.

• Lenore Brent : That was real nice. You should've been a masseur instead.

  Dan Milner : Instead of what?

  Lenore Brent : Instead of whatever it is you do.

• Dan Milner : I hear your friend Cardigan caught a fish.

  Lenore Brent : I devoted half the morning to watching him do it. He and Morro are photographing it now.

  Dan Milner : You don't like fish?

  Lenore Brent : On a plate with fancy sauce and white wine.

• Myron Winton : Gin rummy - that's my game.

  Dan Milner : Later.

  Myron Winton : Why not now?

  Lenore Brent : He needs time to limber up his fingers.

  Myron Winton : [laughs]  Limber up his fingers! By George, I'll have to tell that down to the fellas at the office.

• Lenore Brent : Instead of walking out to sea, I came here. Do you still have our champagne?

  Dan Milner : Is it a big occasion?

  [Lenore leans in and give Milner a long kiss] 

• Thompson : Don't feel so bad. There are a lot of places in the world. They all got women in them.

  Dan Milner : Not all of them, Thompson. The government's got a few places.

• Lenore Brent : I'm a gambler myself.

  Dan Milner : How high do you like to play?

  Lenore Brent : If I told you, you wouldn't believe me.

• Dan Milner : Tell me, what happens and when?

  Martin Krafft : I don't know why you are here. I don't know why I'm here.

• Dan Milner : Just how ignorant are you? That Brent girl, for instance. Is she in this?

  Thompson : This is no time to get mixed up with a woman, Milner. Especially someone else's woman.

• Dan Milner : I want information, and I'm beginning not to care how I get it.

• Lenore Brent : Were you in love with me last night?

  Dan Milner : Yeah.

  Lenore Brent : But tonight you're not? I guess that's the way I affect people.

  Dan Milner : Maybe it's just that you affect the wrong people.

• Dan Milner : Anybody I know?

  Bill Lusk : Somebody everybody knows. Beginning to get it now?

  Dan Milner : No, I can't say as I am.

• Dan Milner : Everybody's so cagey.

  Bill Lusk : Wrong again. I'm not being cagey. Maybe I'm even being a little bit simple. But I'm gonna gamble with you. Not that I have much choice.

  Dan Milner : I only gamble on sure things.

  Bill Lusk : If that wasn't so funny, I'd laugh.

• Dan Milner : You drink like a B-girl.

• Dan Milner : You came in as a drunk, now you're a cop.

• Lenore Brent : You're in trouble. I think I've known it from the beginning.

  Dan Milner : Everybody's in trouble.

• Dan Milner : I'm on a vacation.

  Bill Lusk : I hope you enjoy it. It may be the longest one you ever take.

• Thompson : No matter where you get it, money can buy just so much.

  Dan Milner : There are some things it doesn't buy at all for me. For instance, murder.

• Mark Cardigan : I don't like the inference. Where does that leave us?

  Dan Milner : In a lot of trouble. Until somebody knocks him off, it's gonna be the short, unhappy life of Dan Milner.

• Nick Ferraro : Do you judge everyone by his face, Milner?

  Dan Milner : That and smell.