Clark Gable credited as playing...
Gay Langland
- Gay: Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin's as natural as livin'. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.
- Gay: What makes you so sad? I think you're the saddest girl I ever met.
- Roslyn: You're the first man that ever said that. I'm usually told how happy I am.
- Gay: That's because you make a man feel happy.
- [He tries to kiss her, but she demurs]
- Roslyn: I don't feel that way about you, Gay.
- Gay: Well, don't get discouraged girl, you might.
- [Last lines]
- Roslyn: I'll leave tomorrow, okay?
- Gay: God bless you, girl.
- Roslyn: Gay, if there could be one person in the world, a child who could be brave from the beginning. I was scared to, when you asked me. But, I'm not so much now, are you?
- Gay: No.
- Roslyn: How do you find your way back in the dark?
- Gay: Just head for that big star straight on. The highway's under it. It'll take us right home.
- Guido: Have you ever been outside Reno, Ms. Taber?
- Roslyn: Once I walked to the edge of town; doesn't look like there's much out there.
- Gay: Everything's there!
- Roslyn: Like what?
- Gay: The country!
- Roslyn: Well, what do you do with yourself?
- Gay: Just live.
- Roslyn: How does anyone "just live"?
- Gay: Well, you start by going to sleep. You get up when you feel like it. You scratch yourself. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is; throw stones at a can, whistle.
- Gay: Damn 'em all. They changed it, changed it all around. Smeared it all over with blood. I'm finished with it. It's like roping a dream now. I just gotta find another way to be alive, that's all. If there is one anymore.
- Gay: You know, sometimes when a person don't know what to do, the best thing is to just stand still.
- [Gay is giving Roslyn a ride back to town]
- Gay: You're a - real - beautiful - woman. It's almost kind of an honor sittin' next to ya'. You just shine in my eyes. That's my true feelin' Roslyn.
- Gay: Did you ever hear the story about the city man out in the country? And he sees this fella sittin' on his porch. So he says, "Mister, could you tell me how I could get back to town?" The fella says, "No." "Well, could you tell me how to get to the Post Office?" The fella says, "No." "Well, do you know how to get to the Railroad Station?" "No." "Boy," he says, "you sure don't know much, do ya?" The fella says, "No. But I ain't lost."
- Gay: We start out doin' somethin', meaning no harm, something that's naturally in us to do. But, somewhere along the line, it gets changed around into something bad! Like dancin' in a nightclub. You started out just wanting to dance, didn't ya? But, little by little it turns out that people ain't interested in how good you danced, they're gawkin' at you with somethin' entirely different in their minds. And they turn it sour, don't they? I coulda looked down my nose at you too. Showin' yourself off at nightclubs for so much a night. But, I took my hat off to ya. Cause I know the difference.
- Guido: Boy, am I in the right place?
- Roslyn: Have you seen the vegetable garden? It took Gay about a week just to get the soil turned over.
- Gay: Yeah, I moved the grass. Sprayed them flowers too. Oh, I got your windows unstuck. Fireplace don't smoke anymore.
- Guido: Roslyn, you must be a magician. The only thing this boy ever did for a woman was get out the ice cubes.