The Killers (1964)

Lee Marvin: Charlie Strom

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• Charlie Strom : Lady, I don't have the time.

• Charlie Strom : You see, the only man that's not afraid to die is the man that's dead already.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Lee : [bemusedly]  Oh, Charlie... Charlie... you're always on top, aren't you, Charlie?

  Charlie Strom : [laconically]  I'm still alive.

• 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.