Quotes from Claire Trevor movies and TV shows

Lily: Do what I tell you and you'll always go wrong.

Arnett: It's quite all right, Mrs. Brent. I am a man of integrity, but I'm always willing to listen to an interesting offer.
Helen: Well, I'm prepared to pay handsomely.
Arnett: Good. Obstructing the wheels of justice is a costly affair.
Helen: Five thousand dollars should do it.
Arnett: Fifteen thousand dollars should do it.

Helen: I must warn you, though, liquor makes me nosy. I've been known to ask all sorts of personal questions after four cocktails.
Marty: 'sallright. I've been known to tell people to mind their own business. Cold sober, too.

Helen: If you go to the police, you'll see Laury sooner than you think.
Mrs. Kraft: Are you trying to scare me?
Helen: I'm just warning you. Perhaps you don't realise, it's painful being killed. A piece of metal sliding into your body, finding its way into your heart. Or a bullet tearing through your skin, crashing into a bone. It takes a while to die, too. Sometimes a long while.

Sam: Oh, I see. You cross the tracks on May Day with a basket of goodies for the poor slum kid, but back you scoot - and fast - to your own neck o' the woods. Don't you?
Helen: I wouldn't say that.
Sam: No, you wouldn't say it... but that's the way it is.

Helen Grayle: I hadn't supposed there were enough murders these days to make detecting very attractive to a young man.
Philip Marlowe: I stir up trouble on the side.

Helen Grayle: Let's dispense with the polite drinking, shall we?

Helen Grayle: It's a long story and not pretty.
Philip Marlowe: I got lots of time and I'm not squeamish.

Dallas: Well, you gotta live no matter what happens.

Ringo Kid: My father and brother were shot down by the Plummer boy... Guess you don't know how it feels to loose your own folks that way.
Dallas: I lost mine when I was a kid. It was a massacre on Superstition Mountain.
Ringo Kid: That's tough - especially on a girl.