Healy Quotes in High Sierra (1941)

Deputy: [Marie crosses the crime scene line] What's the idea you? get back where you belong! Anybody else tries they'll get run in... see?

Healy: [sees Marie crying approaches her] What are you up to sister? Why did you try to get through this line? What did you mean to do? have you a little dog in that basket? A grey and white dog?

[Picks up basket and checks himself]

Healy: Boy!

[signals the officer to come over]

Deputy: What's the matter with her?

Healy: Roy Earle has been traveling with a girl called Marie.

Deputy: Sure I know that. what about it?

Healy: Meet Marie!

Healy: [looking at Roy's dead body] Big shot Earle. Well well. Look at him lying there. He ain't much now, is he?

Marie Garson: [kneeling next to Roy's body and crying] Mister, what does it mean... when a man "crashes out"?

Healy: Crashes out? That's a funny question for you to ask now, Sister. It means he's free.

Marie Garson: [picks up Pard and walks with the police in a daze] Free?... Free...

[fade out to credits]

Healy: Who's been helping him write those stories?

Miss Clark: What do you mean, who's been helping him?

Healy: Where does a squirt like Jones get off writing all that juicy underworld lingo?

Miss Clark: From me, of course.

Healy: You certainly have horned in yourself properly, haven't you!