Joe Collins Quotes in Elephant Stampede (1951)

Joe Collins: [referring to Bomba] He's tough, Bob. You'll never get anything out of him.

Dawn Divine: He could have killed me too, you know?

Joe Collins: That's right.

Dawn Divine: I hate him!

Joe Collins: Waste of time!

Dawn Divine: I don't care! I could kill him!

Joe Collins: Hey, stealing's a business, not a crusade.

Dawn Divine: [into a phone] Now?

Joe Collins: [into the phone] No. The bank is crowded.

[Joe sees the Candy Man standing at the register near the vault]

Joe Collins: It's overcrowded.

Dawn Divine: Fireworks started yet?

[Joe sees the Candy Man walk past him and into the vault to his safety deposit box]

Joe Collins: Uh... that'll be any minute.

[Sarge has his gun on Joe in the train cabin]

Sarge: [as he takes away Joe's suitcase] Stay where you are! Up! You ought to be ashamed at yourself. Jesus, boy... you work for the bank!

[feels around the suitcase]

Sarge: All right, where's the key?

[Joe laughs slightly]

Sarge: The key!

Joe Collins: [continuing to laugh] Uh... you're not going to believe this...

Sarge: That's right!

[Sarge pulls out a switchblade knife and cuts into the suitcase cutting open a large hole, he feels inside and pulls out a bottle of champaigne and throws the suitcase back at Joe who has stopped laughing]

Sarge: Count it!

Joe Collins: Well, I know how much there is. Your share is...

[Joe is suprised when he pulls out of the cut open suitcase crumbled newspaper with fish wrapped up in it]

Joe Collins: Uh... Sarge? We've been had!

Sarge: Shut up.

Joe Collins: As I said, your share of this is around $765,000.

Sarge: Shut up!

Joe Collins: What? You think I lugged this goddamn thing across Germany just for the exercise?

Sarge: SHUT UP!

Sarge: I can't believe this. You're a heavyweight to pull off a million dollar caper, but foolish enough to get caught by a lightweight hustler like me?

Joe Collins: Million-and-a-half, Sarge. One million and a half. That's how much that Dawn and I took from yours and the two other bank boxes.

Sarge: Where is Dawn? Where is she?

Joe Collins: Now?

Sarge: Right now!

Joe Collins: Gee, it looks like... she's where the money is!

Losado: [Approaching Joe] It's over.

Joe Collins: What's over?

Losado: Life, my friend.

[He pulls out a knife and moves toward Joe]

Eddie Jillette: I know the secret to Heaven.

Joe Collins: Oh, yeah, what's that?

Eddie Jillette: A girl with freckles on her tits.

Eddie Jillette: I don't see any heartstoppers in here. Most of these broads still got the prime tag hanging from their nose.

Joe Collins: [Michel walks by and catches their attention as she sits down with a older man] Maybe she's his mother.

Eddie Jillette: She's got 'born to screw' tattooed on her forehead.

Eddie Jillette: Don't be bitter.

Eddie Jillette: I know the secret to happiness.

Eddie Jillette: What's that?

Eddie Jillette: A girl with freckles on her tits.

Eddie Jillette: You're doin' reefer with the brothers or is your old lady on a moon cycle?

Joe Collins: Why do you ask somethin' like that?

Eddie Jillette: Cause once a month without fail you get bullshit philosophical with me.

Joe Collins: Yeah, well, that's what happens when you get married, Eddie.

Ruth: If I weren't so sick, I could help you.

Joe Collins: There are all kinds of sick people, Ruth. Maybe we can help each other.

Gallagher: It'll only make things tougher for everybody else.

Joe Collins: I don't care about everybody else.

Gallagher: That's cemetery talk.

Joe Collins: Why not, we're buried, ain't we? Only thing is, we ain't dead.

'Freshman' Stack: [Joe has just been returned to his cell after spending some time in solitary. His cellmates are bringing him up to date on latest developments] About the stool pigeon, Joe, we made arrangements. Everything is okay.

Joe Collins: Everything's okay? What's okay? Nothing's okay. It never was and it never will be. Not till we're out. You get that? Out.

Joe Collins: [Spencer is wavering about whether to join in with Joe's escape plan] Spencer. In or out? No guarantees go with this break. It's all or nothing. But you've gotta' make up your mind now. Now! Either way, no hard feelings.

Spencer: [after long, thoughtful pause] With you, Joe. I'll play along.

Robert 'Soldier' Becker: I never thought different.

Spencer: Neither did I.

Joe Collins: [Trying to convince Gallagher that escape from the prison is possible, in spite of the fact that they both realize that in the past, somewhat misguided inmates have attempted to do so] Look, Gallagher, I know this drum's full of crackpots. One convict's gonna' buy his way out, another knows the governor's cousin. A third guy's even gonna' float out in a homemade balloon. But I'm not buyin' any pipe dreams. It can be done. It's been done before, and it'll be done again. It can be done here... by us.

Gallagher: Collins, if I ever put in with anybody, it'll be with you.

Joe Collins: Their idea of fun is a word called torture, and the only thing they're interested in is gold and women.

Joe Collins: Listen, Gomez. Selling guns to outlaws is one thing, but selling 'em to a killer of women and children is something else.