1- “It’s just like the first time I came here, isn’t it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet.” (talking to Phyllis Dietrichson) – Walter Neff, ‘Double Indemnity’.
2- “I killed him. I killed him for money – and a woman – and I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman.” (writing his confession to Barton Keyes about Dietrichson’s murder) – Walter Neff, ‘Double Indemnity’.
3- “That was all there was to it.Nothing had slipped, nothing had been overlooked.There was nothing to give us away. And yet, Keyes, as I was walking down the street to the drugstore, suddenly, it came over me that everything would go wrong. It sounds crazy Keyes, but it’s true, so help me, I couldn’t hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.” – Walter Neff, ‘Double Indemnity’.
4- “Who’d you think I was anyway? The guy that walks into a good looking dame’s front parlour and says, “Good afternoon, I sell accident insurance on husbands… you got one that’s been around too long? One you’d like to turn into a little hard cash?”- Walter Neff, ‘Double Indemnity’.
5- “Suddenly it came over me that everything would go wrong. It sounds crazy, Keyes, but it’s true, so help me. I couldn’t hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.” – Walter Neff, ‘Double Indemnity’.
6- “Murder’s never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later, and when two people are involved it’s usually sooner.” (talking to Walter Neff) – Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
7- “This Dietrichson business. It’s murder, and murders don’t come any neater. As fancy a piece of homicide as anybody ever ran into. Smart, tricky, almost perfect, but… I think Papa has it all figured out. It’s beginning to come apart at the seams already.” (talking to Walter Neff) – Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
8- “I picked you for the job, not because I think you’re so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You’re not smarter, Walter… you’re just a little taller.” (talking to Walter Neff)– Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
9- “They may think it’s twice as safe because there are two of them. But it isn’t twice as safe. It’s ten times twice as dangerous. They’ve committed a murder.” (talking to Walter Neff)– Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
10- “The job I’m talking about takes brains and integrity. It takes more guts than there is in 50 salesmen. It’s the hardest job in the business.” (after offering Walter Neff a job) – Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
11- “Well, I get darn sick of tryin’ to pick up after a gang of fast-talking salesmen dumb enough to sell life insurance to a guy who sleeps in the same bed with four rattlesnakes.” – Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
12-“- Walter Neff: Afraid, baby?
– Phyllis Dietrichson: Yes, I’m afraid. But not of Keyes. I’m afraid of us. We’re not the same anymore. We did it so we could be together but instead of that, it’s pulling us apart.” (referring to her husband murder)-‘Double Indemnity’.
13- “Phyllis: I think you’re rotten.
Walter Neff: I think you’re swell – so long as I’m not your husband.
Phyllis: Get out of here.
Walter Neff: You bet I’ll get out of here, baby. I’ll get out of here but quick.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
14- “Walter Neff: You’ll be here too?
Phyllis: I guess so, I usually am.
Walter Neff: Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?
Phyllis: I wonder if I know what you mean.
Walter Neff: I wonder if you wonder.”-‘Double Indemnity’.
15- “Walter Neff: Know why you couldn’t figure this one, Keyes? I’ll tell ya. ‘Cause the guy you were looking for was too close. Right across the desk from ya.
Barton Keyes: Closer than that, Walter.
Walter Neff: I love you, too.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
16- “Barton Keyes: Now that’s enough out of you, Walter. Now get outta here before I throw my desk at you.
Walter Neff: I love you, too.
Walter Neff: I really did, too, you old crab. Always yelling your head off, always sore at everybody. You never fooled me with your song and dance, not for a second. I kinda always knew that behind all the cigar ashes on your vest was a heart as big as a house.”-‘Double Indemnity’.
17- “Phyllis: I’m a native Californian. Born right here in Los Angeles.
Walter Neff: They say all native Californians come from Iowa.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
18- “- Phyllis Dietrichson: I don’t want to kill him. I never did. Not even when he gets drunk and slaps my face.
– Walter Neff: Only sometimes you wish he was dead.
– Phyllis Dietrichson: Perhaps I do.
– Walter Neff: And you wish it was an accident and you had that policy for $50,000 dollars. Is that it?
– Phyllis Dietrichson: Perhaps that too.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
19- “- Walter Neff: Now you hate him.
– Phyllis Dietrichson: Yes, Walter. He’s so mean to me. Every time I buy a dress or a pair of shoes, he yells his head off. He never lets me go anywhere. He keeps me shut up. He’s always been mean to me. Even his life insurance all goes to that daughter of his.” (referring to Phyllis husband)-‘Double Indemnity’.
20- “- Phyllis Dietrichson: We’re both rotten.
– Walter Neff: Only you’re a little more rotten.”-‘Double Indemnity’.
21- “- Walter Neff: What do the police figure?
– Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They’re satisfied. It’s not their dough.” (referring to the murder)-‘Double Indemnity’.
22- “- Walter Neff: You can’t get away with it. You want to knock him off, don’t you?
– Phyllis Dietrichson: That’s a horrible thing to say.
– Walter Neff: What do you think I was, anyway? A guy that walks into a good-looking dame’s front parlor and says: “Good afternoon. I sell accident insurance on husbands. Have you got one that’s been around too long?”. (referring to Phyllis husband)-‘Double Indemnity’.
23- “- Walter Neff: Why didn’t you shoot again, baby? Don’t tell me it’s because you’ve been in love with me all this time.
– Phyllis Dietrichson: I never loved you, Walter, not you or anybody else. I’m rotten to the heart. I used you just as you said. That’s all you ever meant to me. Until a minute ago, when I couldn’t fire that second shot. I never thought that could happen to me.” (after Phyllis shoots a gun at Walter, missing him) –‘Double Indemnity’.
24- “Barton Keyes: Have you made up your mind?
Jackson: Mr. Keyes, I’m a Medford man – Medford, Oregon. Up in Medford, we take our time making up our minds.
Barton Keyes: Well, we’re not in Medford now, we’re in a hurry.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
25- “Phyllis: Neff is the name, isn’t it?
Walter Neff: Yeah. Two “F”s, like in Philadelphia, if you know the story.
Phyllis: What story?
Walter Neff: The Philadelphia Story.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
26- “Walter Neff: Yeah, I was, but I’m sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.
Phyllis: There’s a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. Forty-five miles an hour.
Walter Neff: How fast was I going, officer?
Phyllis: I’d say around ninety.
Walter Neff: Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.
Phyllis: Suppose I let you off with a warning this time.
Walter Neff: Suppose it doesn’t take.
Phyllis: Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles.
Walter Neff: Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder.
Phyllis: Suppose you try putting it on my husband’s shoulder.
Walter Neff: That tears it.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
27- “Phyllis: You see what I mean, Walter?
Walter: Sure. I’ve got good eyesight. You mean you want him to have the policy without him knowing it. And that means without the insurance company knowing that he doesn’t know it. That’s the setup, isn’t it?
Phyllis: Is there anything wrong with it?
Walter: No, I think it’s lovely. Then, if some dark wet night, that crown block did fall on him –
Phyllis: What crown block?
Walter: Only sometimes it can’t quite make it on its own. It has to have a little help.
Phyllis: I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Walter: Of course, it doesn’t have to be a crown block. It can be a car backing over him, or he could fall out of the upstairs window. Any little thing like that, just so it’s a morgue job.
Phyllis: Are you crazy?
Walter: Not that crazy. Good-bye, Mrs. Dietrichson.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
28- “Phyllis: When she died, he was terribly broken up. I-I pitied him so.
Neff: And now you hate him.
Phyllis: Yes, Walter. He’s so mean to me. Every time I buy a dress or a pair of shoes, he yells his head off. He never lets me go anywhere. He keeps me shut up. He’s always been mean to me. Even his life insurance all goes to that daughter of his. That Lola.
Walter: Nothing for you at all, huh?
Phyllis: No, and nothing is just what I’m worth to him.
Walter: So you lie awake in the dark and listen to him snore and get ideas.
Phyllis: Walter, I don’t want to kill him. I never did. Not even when he gets drunk and slaps my face.
Walter: Only sometimes you wish he was dead.
Phyllis: Perhaps I do.
Walter: And you wish it was an accident and you had that policy for $50,000 dollars. Is that it?
Phyllis: Perhaps that too.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
29- “Phyllis: I was just fixing some ice tea; would you like a glass?
Walter Neff: Yeah, unless you got a bottle of beer that’s not working.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
30- “Keyes: Every month, hundreds of claims come to this desk. Some of them are phonies. And I know which ones. How do I know? Because my little man tells me.
Garlopis: What little man?
Keyes: The little man in here. Every time one of these phonies comes along, it ties knots in my stomach. I can’t eat.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
Walter Neff: You can’t get away with it. You want to knock him off, don’t you?
– Phyllis Dietrichson: That’s a horrible thing to say.
