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Mary Malden: Tell me, how is it to be a cop?
Jim Wilson: You get so you don't trust anybody.
Mary Malden: [who is blind] You're lucky. You don't have to trust anyone. I do. I have to trust everybody.
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Jim Wilson: [yelling] So I get thrown off the force! What kind of job is this, anyway? Garbage, that's all we handle: garbage!
Pop Daly: Don't you know? That's the kind of job it is.
Jim Wilson: You've been doing it for sixteen years; you ought to know. How do you do it? How do you live with yourself?
Pop Daly: I don't! I live with other people. When I go home I don't take this stuff with me, I leave it outside. But you! The way you carry it around with you, you must like it!
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Jim Wilson: Why do you make me do it? You know you're gonna talk! I'm gonna make you talk! I always make you punks talk! Why do you do it? Why?
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Myrna Bowers: I like to stink myself up. 'Noo-it duh Joy.' It means 'Night of Joy.'
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Woman in bar: Hello Junior.
[with much leering]
Woman in bar: How's about buying me a drink?
[With continued leering, and now, tongue lolling]
Woman in bar: I'm all dry.
Jim Wilson: [Sternly] How old are you?
Woman in bar: [Continuing to leer] Old enough.
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Jim Wilson: Serve drinks to juveniles, you get into trouble. How many times do I have to tell you that?
Bartender: Whatta ya want me to do...? Every dame comes in here, look at her teeth...?
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Mary Malden: The city can be lonely too. Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest.
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Pop Daly: To get anything out of this life you've got to put something in it - from the heart.
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Capt. Brawley: Make up your mind to be a cop, not a gangster with a badge.
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Mary Malden: [approvingly, to Jim] When you talk to me there's no pity in your voice.
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Jim Wilson: Friends? Cops have no friends. Nobody likes a cop.
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Walter Brent: Let me tell you somethin' mister, you ain't gonna ask no questions. We've asked 'em all and we know the answers. It was my kid, and it's gonna be my gun that takes care of him when we get him.
Sheriff Carrey: We're all anxious to get him.
Walter Brent: I'll get him, don't you worry. An' when I do there won't be any of your city stuff. No trials. No sob sisters. I'm just gonna empty this shotgun into his belly. Anyone who tries to stop me'll get the same thing.
On Dangerous Ground Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
Language: English Release date: February 12, 1952