The Killers (1964)
Lee Marvin: Charlie Strom
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Quotes
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Charlie Strom : Lady, I don't have the time.
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Charlie Strom : You see, the only man that's not afraid to die is the man that's dead already.
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Charlie Strom : It's not only the money. Maybe we get that and maybe we don't. But I gotta find out what makes a man decide not to run... why, all of a sudden, he'd rather die.
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Earl Sylvester : I don't know where Johnny is, what trouble he got into ...
Lee : [Interrupting] He's dead!
Earl Sylvester : [as Lee smiles at him in amusement] He's dead?
Charlie Strom : [laconically] ALL the way.
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Charlie Strom : Whoever laid this contract wasn't worried about the million dollars, and the only people that don't worry about a million dollars are the people that have a million dollars.
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Charlie Strom : [referring to Mickey Farmer] He knows me. I had to lean on him once.
Lee : You know 'em all, don't ya?
Charlie Strom : You never know them all.
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Charlie Strom : [quietly] Sylvester, unless you want to renew your partnership with the late Johnny North, I suggest you tell us everything and anything we want to know.
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Lee : [bemusedly] Oh, Charlie... Charlie... you're always on top, aren't you, Charlie?
Charlie Strom : [laconically] I'm still alive.
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Lee : What was it he couldn't handle?
Earl Sylvester : Dames - the kind that hang around the pits.
Charlie Strom : Dames? Or a dame?
Earl Sylvester : It just takes one.