Slander (1957)

Van Johnson: Scott Ethan Martin

Quotes 

• Scott Ethan Martin : [Excited]  I can't take it all in. You know, it's a funny thing, Seth. You... you push and you push and you push... and then one day when you're so tired and you... you think you can't push any more, suddenly it busts open, you've made it. You're in!

• Scott Ethan Martin : It might interest you to know, Mr. Manley, that since you put that loaded gun to my head, my wife and I have talked about nothing else. We've discussed it back and forth, up and down, around and across til the words stopped meaning anything. We've talked at each other in a way we never dreamed was possible before you entered our lives. But it's not a dream, Mr. Manley, it's all true, thanks to you. This morning my wife took my boy and they moved over to her mother's house, so no matter what else happens in this thing you already have the credit for that. I thought I'd learned all there was to learn about dirt when I was a kid back in Brooklyn. But you are a new kind of dirt. You... you come all dolled up in $300 suits. You live on Park Avenue. You work in any office as big as a skating rink. You don't look like dirt. You look like someone a kid ought to get up for when you come into a room. You've got the whole country sitting on the edge of a cliff holding their breath, wondering who's the next guy you'll decide to shove over. Well, I don't mind being shoved over. Not anymore. The worst that could happen to me has already happened. Even before you've printed a word, I've got nothing more to lose.