Quotes from Out of the Past

[Petey and Jeff watch Meta walking away]
Petey: Nice!
Jeff Bailey: Awfully cold around the heart.

Jeff Bailey: How big a chump can you get to be? I was finding out.

Jeff Bailey: You say to yourself, "How hot can it get?" Then, in Acapulco, you find out.

Jack Fisher: You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

Jeff Bailey: You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.

Jeff Bailey: I sell gasoline, I make a small profit. With that I buy groceries. The grocer makes a profit. We call it earning a living. You may have heard of it somewhere.

Whit Sterling: My feelings? About ten years ago, I hid them somewhere and haven't been able to find them.

Jeff Bailey: You can never help anything, can you? You're like a leaf that the wind blows from one gutter to another.

Kathie Moffett: Oh, Jeff, I don't want to die!
Jeff Bailey: Neither do I, baby, but if I have to I'm gonna die last.

Jeff Bailey: It was the bottom of the barrel, and I was scraping it.

Whit Sterling: Joe couldn't find a prayer in the Bible.

Kathie Moffett: Don't you see you've only me to make deals with now?
Jeff Bailey: Build my gallows high, baby.

Ann Miller: She can't be all bad. No one is.
Jeff Bailey: Well, she comes the closest.

Jeff Bailey: 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.

Ann Miller: They say the day you die your name is written in the clouds.

Kathie Moffat: I didn't know what I was doing. I, I didn't know anything except how much I hated him. But I didn't take anything. I didn't, Jeff. Don't you believe me?
Jeff Bailey: Baby, I don't care.

[Kathie is playing roulette]
Jeff Bailey: That's not the way to win.
Kathie Moffat: Is there a way to win?
Jeff Bailey: There's a way to lose more slowly.

Kathie Moffett: I think we deserve a break.
Jeff Bailey: We deserve each other.

Leonard Eels: All women are wonders, because they reduce all men to the obvious.

Jeff Bailey: [answering the door] Well, the last guy in the world...
Whit Sterling: I hate surprises myself. You wanna just shut the door and forget it?

Jeff Bailey: Now, do you wanna talk business, or do you wanna play house...?

Whit Sterling: You just sit and stay inside yourself. You wait for me to talk. I like that.
Jeff Bailey: I never found out much listening to myself.

Kathie Moffett: Can't you even feel sorry for me?
Jeff Bailey: I'm not going to try.
Kathie Moffett: Jeff ...
Jeff Bailey: Just get out, will you? I have to sleep in this room.

Kathie Moffett: Oh Jeff, you ought to have killed me for what I did a minute ago.
Jeff Bailey: [dryly] There's still time.

Jeff Bailey: [allowing one slap but blocking a second] That evens us. Now fold your hands or I'll fold 'em for you!