Edmond O'Brien: Johnny Midnight

Quotes 

• Johnny Midnight : Harry, Eric Baldwin and anyone he handles come under the general heading of "dirt" to me.

• Hughes : I'd like to remind her of something she said when she came to see me in the hospital.

  Johnny Midnight : What was that, Harry?

  Hughes : She said, "Please, Harry, when it's bad, always remember that somewhere somebody loves you."

• Barnes : Ever wanted to kill a man, Johnny?

  Johnny Midnight : Once or twice.

  Barnes : Well, I've wanted to kill every night for a week now. Only tonight it was worse. I came down here knowing I could kill Eric Baldwin and feel better for having killed him. It's a little crazy, isn't it?

  Johnny Midnight : A little.

• Lt. Dan Harmon : She did it. It's an open and shut case.

  Johnny Midnight : You have not got an open and shut case, Dan! I'm sick of hearing that convenient cliche. You have what looks like an open and shut case, so you're happy. Wrap it up, justice is done! Maybe you're getting a little tired.

  Lt. Dan Harmon : I am getting a little tired. I'm getting tired of amateurs like you trying to tell pros what to do. I've had it. Now get out of here.

• Johnny Midnight : Couldn't you have got Inga Nielsen somehow without Baldwin?

  Crane : You take a lion without its tamer, Johnny?