Stevens Quotes in Glory Road (2006)

Coach Don Haskins: Jason, Don Haskins, Texas Western.

Stevens: Western Union?

Coach Don Haskins: Texas Western down in El Paso. Hey, after the game, when you get a minute I'd like to talk to you about playing for me.

Stevens: Play for you at Texas Western? Thanks, Coach, but I'm partial to winning.

Stevens: It's like being in school.

Lexy: I sincerely hope not.

Stevens: I was mucking cards since before you were born.

Detective: Here they are.

[Brings in photos of the crime scene]

Stevens: Let's have a look at 'em.

Detective: Careful, they're not dry yet. The roof and the body of the girl. That's where she got it. Good looking gal.

Stevens: Why do these guys always bump off the good lookin' ones?

Stevens: You know what I am doing, Miss Kenton? I am placing my thoughts elsewhere while you chatter away.

Stevens: In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.

Miss Kenton: Look at it! Is that or is it not the wrong chinaman?

Stevens: Miss Kenton, I'm very busy. I am surprised that you have nothing better to do than stand around all day...

Miss Kenton: Mr. Stevens, look at that chinaman and tell me the truth!

Stevens: Miss Kenton, I would ask you to keep your voice down. What would the other servants think to hear us shouting at the top of our voices about... chinamen?

Miss Kenton: And I would ask you, Mr. Stevens, to turn around and look at the chinaman.

Miss Kenton: What's in that book? Come on, let me see!

Stevens: This is my private time. You're invading it.

Miss Kenton: Oh, is that so?

Stevens: Yes.

Miss Kenton: I'm invading your private time, am I?

Stevens: Yes.

[after telling Stevens she intends to accept Benn's marriage proposal]

Miss Kenton: Mister Stevens! Am I to take it that after all the years I have been in this house you have nothing else to say to me?

Stevens: You have my warmest congratulations.

Stevens: I was too busy serving to listen to the speeches.

[Dr. Kennedy and Stevens are bandaging Marlowe's wound]

Stevens: What's the matter with you, Stevens?

Stevens: Oh, nothing.

Dr. Kennedy: You're a liar, Stevens. You shave your legs and you're a liar. But you care. You care; that's what saves you.

Stevens: Saves me from what, sir?

Dr. Kennedy: Yourself, Stevens, yourself.

Stevens: I thought you were gonna say from a fate worse than death, sir.

Dr. Kennedy: There's no such thing.

Stevens: [Lily seen putting on lipstick after her boss is reprimanded and fired for having followed her into the Ladies Rest Room] Young woman! We have no place here for a girl of your sort. You're through, tonight.

Lily Powers: Why, Mr. Stevens, it wasn't my fault. He followed me in there. What could I do? He's my boss and I have to earn my living. Oh, I'm so ashamed. It's the first time anything like that has ever happened to me.

[Starts to cry]

Stevens: Well, I'll think it over. Report tomorrow as usual.

Stevens: Have a drink?

Lily Powers: No thanks. I never touch it.

Stevens: Oh, you don't want me to drink alone?

Lily Powers: Well, maybe just a sip.

[Pours herself a slug of whiskey and downs it in one gulp]

Stevens: [Lily sashays into Mr. Stevens' office] Haven't I told you never to come beyond the front of this desk.

Lily Powers: Oh, but I get so lonesome out there all by myself.

[Runs her hands through Mr. Stevens' hair]

Stevens: Don't do that! How do you expect me to get any work done.

Lily Powers: Hold me close.

[They embrace as Mr. Stevens' fiancée walks in. Mr. Stevens chases after her. Lily lights up a cigarette]

Lily Powers: Wait a minute, you're kinda mixed up, aren't you? I thought you left town?

Stevens: Well, what else could I do? I was in a...

Lily Powers: Jam? Well, I won't let you get in another. See what I mean?

Stevens: Lily, don't do this to me. I can't stand it. Its been brutal not seeing you.

Lily Powers: Yeah? Well, you better get used to it. Listen, I don't owe you a thing. Whatever I do is my own business. You never had but one idea about me. That's all I ever meant to you.

Stevens: Oh, but, Lily...

Lily Powers: You made your choice. Now, what do you want?

Stevens: You mean - I can't - see you anymore?

Lily Powers: [Sarcastically] How did you guess it?

Lily Powers: That's all there is to it. If you fire me, we're through. It isn't the job, I don't mind that. But, it just goes to show me how much you care.

Stevens: Well, you know how much I...

Lily Powers: How much you what?

[Moves in close]

Lily Powers: Are you letting me go?

[Kiss]

Stevens: What does he pay you for murdering me?

Angel Eyes: Five hundred dollars... to get the name.

[first lines]

Stevens: You're... from Baker?

[Angel Eyes is silent, eating a bowl of stew and staring at him]

Stevens: Tell Baker that I told him all that I know already and I want to live in peace, understand? That it's no use to go on tormenting me! I know nothing at all about that case of coins.

[Angel Eyes stops eating and looks interested]

Stevens: Now that gold has disappeared, but if he'd listened we could have avoided this altogether. I went to the Army court; there were no witnesses. They couldn't uncover any more. I can't tell Baker what happened to the money. Go back and tell him that!