The Best Robert Caulfield Quotes

Robert: You wouldn't know sincerity if it ran over you.
Judy: Not if you were driving it.

Robert: Somebody took a shot at me.
Walter: When?
Robert: Yesterday.
Walter: Thank God I've got an alibi.

Kay: You haven't found what you're looking for. You're embarrassed about bothering me again. However, there are one or two questions more you'd like to ask me. It's something personal and you won't bother me any more.
Robert: I haven't found what I'm looking for. I feel embarrassed about bothering you again. However, there are one or two more questions I'd like to ask you. It's something personal and I won't bother you any more.

Robert: Mr Albaine, how much do you charge to dust a field?
Albain: Twenty five dollars.
Robert: I'd like to hire your plane.
Albain: That'll be a hundred dollars.
Robert: You said you charged twenty five?
Albain: Twenty five dollars to dust a field, but you ain't got no field because you ain't no farmer, which means you ain't poor and I think you're a pervert!
Robert: Okay, one hundred.
Albain: One hundred and twenty five.
Robert: What?
Albain: Because you said yes to a hundred too quick, which means you can afford a hundred and twenty five.

Walter: Listen to me and listen good. I don't like you, Caulfield. You're ambitious. You think the way to get ahead is to come up with the scoop of the century. Woodward and Bernstein were good reporters, that's how they did it. Not by telling me they've located Patty Hearst three times like you did or that brilliant piece of investigative journalism you pulled off by finding an eye witness to the second gunman in the Kennedy assassination. The small fact that the man had been in a mental institution at the time never deterred you, not 'scoop' Caulfield. Now most reporters are like me. They are plodders. They spend a lot of their time checking little things... like *facts*. They cover mundane stories like wars and trials and hearings. You never seem to have enough time in your busy schedule to stoop so low as to cover a story. You occupy your time with tips from people who never existed. Driving your car into water and claiming it wasn't your fault. Getting shot at by unseen gunmen. Now I really hate to interrupt your meteoric career with something so plebeian as a legitimate story. However, a train load of propane gas had the bad taste to derail near Galveston and there's a whole town that just might blow up. So it would be just really peachy of you if you would join your film crew that's waiting for you on the plane at this very moment while we speak.
Robert: That was some speech.
Walter: I thought so.

Albain: Now what the hell is your friend doing here?
Robert: He's lost.
Albain: He robbed a bank or something?
Robert: No.
Albain: Well, I get a third.
Robert: What?
Albain: We find him, I get a third of the loot. Now keep your goddamn head down.

Robert: You in charge here?
Albain: See that sign there?
Robert: Yes.
Albain: Well, read it.
Robert: I did.
Albain: Out loud.
Robert: A&A Crop Dusting Service.
Albain: You wanna know who I am?
Robert: I bet you're one of the A's.
Albain: But which one? I bet you can't answer that question, smartass.
Robert: The first one.
Albain: Wrong.
Robert: Can I have one more guess?
Albain: You got it.
Robert: The second one.
Albain: Wrong. I'm both of them. My name is AlBaine. Now, I got a son. You know, the other A was for him but he don't like to fly. He became a lawyer. I think he's a pervert so I took the A away from him. You want to speak to someone in charge, you're speaking to the both of them.
Robert: My name is Caulfield.
Albain: Hey, I can't help that.

Robert: Look, when a reporter tells his assignment editor that he thinks he may be on to something that could be really big, the assignment editor is supposed to say: "You've got forty eight hours, kids, and you better come up with something good or it's going to be your neck!" That's what he's supposed to say, I saw it in a movie.

Judy: I'll fix you some coffee, then you can jump me.
Robert: There's no other one besides White Bluff?
Judy: No, except one abandoned base they used for training during World War Two. Jackson. There's nothing there now. Don't you want to jump me?
Robert: Of course I do. Where's Jackson?
Judy: About three hundred miles directly west. I think I'm going to get angry with you.
Robert: Do you have any money on you?
Judy: You want me to pay you?
Robert: How much?
Judy: About a hundred. Why don't I just leave it on the dresser in the morning?
Robert: Give it to me now.
Judy: In advance? That's the height of conceit.
Robert: Please, and your car keys.