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Mr. Arkadin Quotes

Mr. Arkadin is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Mr. Arkadin stopped airing in 1970.

It features Louis Dolivet as producer, and Paul Misraki in charge of musical score.

Mr. Arkadin is recorded in English and originally aired in France. Each episode of Mr. Arkadin is 99 minutes ("Corinth" version) long. Mr. Arkadin is distributed by Filmorsa/Cervantes Films/Sevilla (Spain), Warner Bros. (USA).

The cast includes: Orson Welles as Gregory Arkadin, Robert Arden as Guy Van Stratten, Akim Tamiroff as Jakob Zouk, Patricia Medina as Mily, Gregoire Aslan as Bracco, Paola Mori as Raina Arkadin, Amparo Rivelles as Baroness Nagel, Frederick O'Brady as Oscar, Katina Paxinou as Sophie, and Peter Van Eyck as Thaddeus.

Mr. Arkadin Quotes

Robert Arden as Guy Van Stratten

  • (Robert Arden) "Like I say, I had no time for the cigarette smuggling, they confiscated my boat, I was broke. So, when I got out, I had nothing else to do but look around and ask questions. Well, Mily wasn't waiting for me at the prison gates, but, I traced her down -- to a nightclub, where she was doing a bubble dance."
  • (Robert Arden) "Oh, you don't want to talk. That's what Oscar said."
  • (Akim Tamiroff) "O-O-Oscar, he's a drug addict. He'll never be well."
  • (Robert Arden) "I almost made him well. I got him out in the water. Took away his needle."
  • (Frederick O'Brady) "I don't need to play my music for a pleasure cruise. Pleasure?"
  • (Frederick O'Brady) "I don't know how long we've been out on this boat? For how many days I've been without?"
  • (Robert Arden) "Without your heroin."
  • (Frederick O'Brady) "You didn't throw it away did you?"
  • (Robert Arden) "You'll get your junk when you start to talk."
  • (Frederick O'Brady) "I won't talk. I won't tell you anything."
  • (Robert Arden) "I'm sorry but you're going to have to talk to me. We got to get out of here. Look, if we don't start moving, right away, you're going to be killed. I mean that, murdered."
  • (Akim Tamiroff) "I'm a dying man with no money. Somebody wants to kill me? He's wasting his time."
  • (Robert Arden) "No money? Well, you could use some dough, couldn't you. How would you like to earn 500 marks?"
  • (Akim Tamiroff) "Earn?"
  • (Robert Arden) "Or, even a thousand. We could go to my hotel. No, that's no good, he might find us. We can go to another hotel and I'll get you a fine room with a nice bed and lots of warm, big, thick, heavy blankets."
  • (Akim Tamiroff) "Oh, yeah? And who are you? Santa Claus?"
  • (Robert Arden) "I am the one who's going to keep you from getting murdered. Oh, I know you, sir, you're an old jail bird, just on a stir, an ex-dope pusher, the world's forgotten you. I wouldn't give you a thought if I didn't have to. If my own life didn't depend on it."
  • (Robert Arden) "Well, you know me."
  • (Paola Mori) "Do I?"
  • (Robert Arden) "Maybe not yet, honey, but you're going to."
  • (Paola Mori) "Ha-ha-ha."
  • (Robert Arden) "What's so comical?"
  • (Paola Mori) "I like your being tough, its just too bad you're such a corn ball."
  • (The Professor) "Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. Crooks aren't the worst people, they're just the stupidest. The fleas of the world."
  • (Robert Arden) "And murder?"
  • (The Professor) "My friend, after twenty thousand years, murder is still a business that's mainly in the hands of the amateurs."
  • (Robert Arden) "Don't think I'm trying to embarrass you, Senora Martinez."
  • (Katina Paxinou) "You don't do anything to me, Mr. Smarty."
  • (Robert Arden) "Why would a man want to escape from Poland?"
  • (The Professor) "Because, the past few years, my country has offered its people a wide variety of incentives for moving elsewhere."
  • (Robert Arden) "I did a lot of traveling and asked an awful lot of questions before I learned the truth. From Helsinki to Leopoldville. Brussels. Belgrade. Beirut. To Reno and Trieste. Marseilles --"

Akim Tamiroff as Jakob Zouk

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Amparo Rivelles as Baroness Nagel

  • (Amparo Rivelles) "It's true, that for a year or so, I did see a little something of that sort of thing. It wasn't as amusing as you might think."
  • (Orson Welles) "Criminals aren't ever very amusing."
  • (Amparo Rivelles) "Its because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem."
  • (Orson Welles) "Here's to crime."
  • (Amparo Rivelles) "Oh, digging into the past. It's really too disgusting."

Patricia Medina as Mily

  • (Patricia Medina) "Some of the guns he sent to the Reds in China didn't even shoot."
  • (Orson Welles) "Is Van Stratton a communist?"
  • (Patricia Medina) "Are you kidding?"
  • (Orson Welles) "Then, what's he complaining about?"
  • (Patricia Medina) "Who is this man? You know we can't afford any trouble."
  • (Robert Arden) "Go get a doctor, quick."
  • (Gregoire Aslan) "Too late, for a doctor."
  • (Patricia Medina) "What about the police?"
  • (Gregoire Aslan) "Try to keep them away. I-I don't want to spend my last few minutes with a lot of cops."
  • (Patricia Medina) "What gives with those crazy klu kluxers?"
  • (Robert Arden) "They're Penitentes."
  • (Patricia Medina) "Yeah, I know, but why are they dressed up like that for?"
  • (Robert Arden) "They are doing penance. It means they're sorry for their sins."
  • (Patricia Medina) "They must be awfully sorry."

Orson Welles as Gregory Arkadin

  • (Orson Welles) "I knew what I wanted. That's the difference between us. In this world there are those who give and those who ask. Those who do not care to give -- those who do not dare to ask. You dared. But you were never quite sure what you were asking for."
  • (Orson Welles) "Baroness, a fool is a man who pays twice for the same thing."
  • (Orson Welles) "I do not know who I am."
  • (Orson Welles) "When did you talk to Van Stratton?"
  • (Patricia Medina) "It seems you were pretty chummy with some Nazi collaborators in Vichy."
  • (Orson Welles) "Have some champagne."
  • (Patricia Medina) "They trusted you with all their money, those Nazis, who invested in South America for after the war. They didn't even ask for a receipt. Now their families can't even prove the money's theirs. And then, and then there's Mussolini. All those roads you built for the fascists in Ethiopia. Bad water. Not enough-enough food. Guy said more than a hundred of the men died. You know, you're kind of cute in a weird sort of a way. After a person gets over being scared of you. Why'd you grow that awful beard?"
  • (Orson Welles) "To scare people with."
  • (Orson Welles) "You're a fool. But, not a silly fool. And, I am not, ungenerous."
  • (Robert Arden) "Not, ungenerous? That means --"
  • (Orson Welles) "Ten thousand dollars. Tax free, of course. You can have it in gold in Liechtenstein."
  • (Robert Arden) "Make it twenty thousand."
  • (Orson Welles) "You are a poor businessman, Van Stratten. You're bargaining before you know what's for sale."

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