Quotes from the Movie Out of the Past
They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
I sell gasoline, I make a small profit. With that I buy groceries. The grocer makes a profit. We call it earning a living. You may have heard of it somewhere.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
You don't get vaccinated for Florida, but you do for Mexico.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
You say to yourself, "How hot can it get?" Then, in Acapulco, you find out. I knew she had to wind up here because if you want to go south, here's where you get the boat. All I had to do was wait. Near the plaza was a little cafe, called La Mar Azul next to a movie house. I sat there in the afternoons and drank beer. I used to sit there half-asleep with the beer and the darkness. Only that music from the movie next door kept jarring me awake.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
And then I saw her, coming out of the sun, and I knew why Whit didn't care about that forty grand.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
I knew I'd go every night until she showed up. I knew she knew it. I sat there and drank bourbon and I shut my eyes, but I didn't think of a joint on 56th Street. I knew where I was and what I was doing...what a sucker I was. I even knew she wouldn't come the first night. But I sat there, grinding it out.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
She waited until it was late. And then she walked in out of the moonlight, smiling.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
I never saw her in the daytime. We seemed to live by night. What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked. I didn't know where she lived. I never followed her. All I ever had to go on was a place and time to see her again. I don't know what we were waiting for. Maybe we thought the world would end. Maybe we thought it was a dream and we'd wake up with a hangover in Niagara Falls. I wired Whit but I didn't tell him. 'I'm in Acapulco,' I said. 'I wish you were here.' And every night I went to meet her. How did I know she'd ever show up? I didn't. What stopped her from taking a boat to Chile or Guatemala? Nothing. How big a chump can you get to be? I was finding out. And then she'd come along like school was out, and everything else was just a stone which sailed at the sea.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
It was a nice little joint with bamboo furniture and Mexican gimcracks. One little lamp burned. It was all right. And the rain hammering like that on the window made it good to be in there.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
She's a clever little girl and she's always a hop, skip, and a jump ahead.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
I don't like playing games when I'm the fall guy. You might remember that, Whit.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
It was the bottom of the barrel and I scraped it. But I didn't care. I had her.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
We found a little movie house in North Beach. We were on the run. We went to places we never would have seen in our lives. And after a while, we grew a little more sure of ourselves. We drifted back to more familiar places. Ball parks and the race tracks. Why not? After all, there was one chance in a million we'd bump into our past.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
It was meeting her somewhere like in the first times. There was still that something about her that got me - a kind of magic or whatever it was. I held her and we could laugh because we were together again. We'd played it smart and forgotten nothing. Forgotten nothing except one thing. He had followed her.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
I wasn't sorry for him or sore at her. I wasn't anything.
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
