Marny
Two things I can smell inside a hundred feet. Burning hamburger and a romance.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
Robert Mitchum · 52 quotes
Kathie Moffat
Jane Greer · 19 quotes
Whit Sterling
Kirk Douglas · 14 quotes
Meta
Rhonda Fleming · 4 quotes
Jack Fisher
Steve Brodie · 2 quotes
Most scenes together: Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham & Kathie Moffat (15), Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham & Whit Sterling (7), Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham & Meta (4)
Out of the Past quotes
Page 1 of 5For a man who appears to be clever, you can certainly act like an idiot.
Ann It's all past.
Maybe it isn't.
Ann What'll happen?
I don't know. It's been a long time. I don't know how much he knows.
Ann Don't go, Jeff.
I've got to. I'm tired of running. I'd better clean this up someway. Just one thing, Ann. Do you want me to come back?
Ann Of course.
Ann Was it the same?
I saw her and it was nothing.
Ann She can't be all bad - no one is.
No. She comes the closest.
Ann Are you going to see her again?
Tonight for the last time.
Ann Then look at her, look at yourself, and be very sure that there isn't even a little bit of love left for her. Then when you find out and you know it once and forever, send for me.
I don't have to find out. I know it now. [They kiss]
Ann That's all I wanted to hear.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Ann You do to keep it.
Eels Your uh... cousin is a very charming young lady.
No he isn't. His name is Norman, and he's a bookmaker in Cleveland Ohio.
Picked up some nerves.
I don't need a crack like that any more than I need your dough, which is what I've been telling you. I missed her. The dame caught a boat south.
Where?
Look, I got along before this job. I ate good and I grew as big as you did and if there's something you don't like you can say so.
I just asked where.
Chile, Guatemala...
Why not?
'Cause it isn't the way to win.
Is there a way to win?
Well, there's a way to lose more slowly.
I prefer it like that.
Chuck it in.
Don't you like to gamble?
Not against a wheel.
Tell me why you're so hard to please.
Take me where I can tell you.
Doesn't your conscience bother you, crossing a nice guy like that?
Maybe he isn't such a nice guy. Maybe he crosses people too.
I didn't know you were so small.
I'm taller than Napoleon.
You're prettier too. [They kiss]
Did you miss me?
No more than I would miss my eyes.
Is there a slip up baby? Did you by any chance send your friend up there to find Eels dead?
No Jeff.
Tell me. Tell me.
Don't Jeff.
Don't what?
I don't want to die.
Neither do I baby, but if I have to, I'm going to die last. Something slipped up, didn't it? They told you they were gonna knock him off, and they haven't done it, have they? They haven't because I tipped him off. He blew.
He's all right?
Didn't you want him to be?
Yes, yes, because if he died, they'll say you did it.
You're wonderful Kathie. You're magnificent. You can change sides so smoothly.
Don't Jeff. You're hurting me.
Just remember, I'm coming out of this in one piece, Miss Carson.
Do you always go around leaving your fingerprints on a girl's shoulders? Not that I mind particularly. You've got nice strong hands.
Meta always talked about you like you were the ninth wonder of the world.
Eels She skipped one.
For me, it must be the eighth.
Eels All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.
So do martinis.
My name is Jeff Markam, and I haven't talked to anybody who hasn't tried to sell me something for ten days. If I don't talk I think. It's too late in life for me to start thinking. 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, huh.' The same with the churches, the relics, the moonlight or a Cuba Libre. Nothing in the world is any good unless you can share it.
Maybe you want to go home.
Maybe that's why I'm here.
Is it?
Very difficult girl.
Jose Rodriguez
Is there one who is not so, Señor?
What are you scared about? Joe isn't coming back. He got careless and fell in the river. Did you hear what I said? Joe's dead, Kathie. Can't you find some tears for him?
Do you think I sent Joe?
Oh, you're wonderful Kathie.