His Kind of Woman (1951)

Vincent Price: Mark Cardigan

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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.

• Mark Cardigan : [Preparing to go out and rescue Dan Milner]  Now might I drink hot blood and do such bitter business the earth would quake to look upon.

  Helen Cardigan : [Rolling eyes]  'Hamlet' again...

  Gerald Hobson : Mark, this is no time for histrionics.

  Mark Cardigan : [Scoffing]  What fools ye mortals be.

• Cardigan, Mark : If you used that needle to sew, you'd be a much happier woman.

• Myron Winton : [after he and the other guests have viewed one of Mark Cardigan's films]  Yes sir, I agree with those folks: that was one of the finest movies I've ever seen. They oughta' make 'em ALL like that. None of this nonsense about social matters. People don't go to the movies to see how miserable the world is - they go there to eat popcorn and be happy!

  Mark Cardigan : [Addressing Mr. Krafft]  What did you think of it?

  Martin Krafft : [Dourly]  It had a message no pigeon would carry.

  Mark Cardigan : [Slightly amused, turning to Mr. Winton]  At my studios, all messages are handled by Western Union.

  Myron Winton : You know, you can't take his opinion on anything: he's an *intellectual.*

  [Cardigan responds with a look of mild alarm] 

• 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.

• 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.

• Mark Cardigan : This place is dangerous. The time right deadly. The drinks are on me, my bucko!

• Mark Cardigan : [to Milner and Lenore]  Well, what did you think of the picture?

  Lenore Brent : [Sarcasm]  Oh, it was fine. It was just a little long - about an hour and a half.

• 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.

• Mark Cardigan : Alas, why must I be plagued by yammering magpies on the eve of battle?

• Mark Cardigan : [the rescue boat he was "commanding" has sunk beneath him]  Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

• Mark Cardigan : I must rid all the seas of pirates.

• Mark Cardigan : You know, this is the most wonderful place in the whole world. You should see the buck I killed yesterday. You'll see the pictures as soon as Morro gets them in his album. He's makin' a scrapbook of everything I kill!

  Lenore Brent : Yes, he mentioned it. He also said that, given the time and ammunition, you might very well rid the world of all animal life.

• Helen Cardigan : Mark... you're wounded!

  Mark Cardigan : 'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door.

• Mark Cardigan : This is man's work. Women are for weeping.

• Mark Cardigan : Of all the women in the world you're the only one who ever loved me for my real self.

• Mark Cardigan : My dear, you don't understand me. You never have. Do you think I wanna go on living in a make-believe world fighting in Sherwood Forest on stage six? Oh, no. You go back to Hollywood, while I go on to real-life triumphs. Or a glorious death. Unhand me.

• Helen Cardigan : If you go through with this madness, you've lost me.

  Mark Cardigan : Then those are the fortunes of war. As a matter of fact, I thought I'd already lost you. The idea still has merit.

• Mark Cardigan : A ship, a ship, my kingdom for a ship.

• Mark Cardigan : Hand me my trusty rifle. Hold still, everyone. Not a sound. You can praise me later. Right in the crosshairs. Out, damned spot. Out, I say.

• Volunteer : Count me in, Cardigan.

  Mark Cardigan : Well, what are your qualifications, sir?

  Volunteer : My wife and I have been here for 10 days and this is the first chance I've had to get away from her.

  Mark Cardigan : I know what you mean, old-timer. Fall in!

• Mark Cardigan : I've forgotten a lot of things, but you'll never be one of them. Come on, let's open a bottle and celebrate your coming.

• Mark Cardigan : Who's happily married?

  Gerald Hobson : Very probably, no one.

• Mark Cardigan : Shut up, Gerald. Let me think.

  Helen Cardigan : A little late, isn't it?

  Gerald Hobson : Yes, since I've been doing your thinking for the last 15 years.

• Mark Cardigan : This is my private hunting ground. I know it like an owl knows his tree.

• 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.

• Mark Cardigan : Too flabby. Replace him.

• Lt. Rodriguez : Only pigs wait for slaughter.

  Mark Cardigan : Who are you calling a pig?

• Mark Cardigan : It's too late for talk. The time has come to act.

  Helen Cardigan : Act? When did you ever stop?

• Mark Cardigan : Death hath not struck so fat a deer today.