They Live by Night (1949) - Quotes

Taglines: WE'RE IN A JAM! You're crazy to stick to me... but I'd rather die than let you go!

Taglines: The headlines screamed their crime... but they told only half the story. Would YOU give these kids another chance?

Taglines: Desperate... Hunted... Yet so in love! This is their story... The one the screaming headlines never told!

Taglines: We're in a Jam!

Taglines: Cops or no cops I'm going through!

Bowie: [waking up mother on bus] Ma'am, you're baby's crying.

Mother on Bus: [ignoring the baby and going back to sleep] Well, I've been on this bus three days. When we get to the next stop, I'll fix her bottle. Till then, I just don't care.

Bowie: Well, don't you have a place a little away from the others?

Lambert: [looking at the couple and smiling] Uh-huh, just married, ain't ya?

Bowie: Yeah.

Lambert: Learn that, Alvin. Just-married people like to be alone.

Alvin: I should think so.

Bowie: She got a real house.

Chickamaw: Why not? We're real people.

Bowie: Fifteen hundred bucks for a secondhand car?

T-Dub: That's right.

Bowie: Whoever sells them for that, that's worse than robbin a bank!

T-Dub: They're thieves, just like us.

Bowie: You said you weren't here when the pipes bust. Where were you?

Bowie: I asked you where you were!

Keechie: Seein a doctor.

Bowie: About what?

Keechie: The baby we're gonna have.

Bowie: [angry] Well, that's just fine. That's all I need!

Keechie: You don't see me knittin anything, do you?

Bowie: You having trouble?

Keechie: Could be.

Bowie: Who are you? You live around here?

Keechie: Could be.

Bowie: You haven't had a couple of visitors lately, have you?

Keechie: That wouldn't be a sore foot making you limp, would it?

Bowie: Could be.

Hawkins: [Bowie has just asked Hawkins to arrange a passage to Mexico for Keechie and himself] Son, I'd sure like that money. I'm old, and money's a real comfort to an old man. And maybe I did help you before, but not now. I believe in helping people get what they want, as long as they can pay for it. I've married people cause there's a little hope that they'll be happy. But I can't take this money of yours. No, sir. In a way, I'm a thief just the same as you are, but I won't sell you hope when there ain't any.

Catherine "Keechie" Mobley: [reading Bowie's letter to herself, as she walks back to her cabin; turns to look at Bowie's lifeless body on the ground, whispers] Hello girl. I'm gonna miss you, but I got to do it this way. I'll send for both of you when I can. No matter how long it takes, I got to see that kid. He's lucky. He'll have you to keep him squared around. I love you, Bowie." I love you.