Sam McCloud Quotes in My Favorite Brunette (1947)

Ronnie Jackson: Say, I can be a lot of help to you, Sam. Look, here's my latest invention, right here - a camera with a keyhole lens. Takes pictures right through doors. I've been kicked out of five hotels already. How about it, Sam? Can I go to work for you? Just give me a simple "yes" or "no."

Sam McCloud: No.

Ronnie Jackson: Aw, but that's TOO simple!

Sam McCloud: I told you before, stick to watching the birdie and you'll die of old age.

Ronnie Jackson: Yeah, but I was cut out for this kind of life. All my life I wanted to be a hardboiled detective like Humphrey Bogart or Dick Powell or even Alan Ladd.