Glenn Ford credited as playing...
Johnny Farrell
- Gilda: You do hate me, don't you, Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: I don't think you have any idea of how much.
- Gilda: Hate is a very exciting emotion. Haven't you noticed? Very exciting. I hate you too, Johnny. I hate you so much I think I'm going to die from it. Darling...
- [they kiss passionately]
- Gilda: I think I'm going to die from it.
- Gilda: Would it interest you to know how much I hate you, Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: Very much.
- Gilda: I hate you so much that I would destroy myself to take you down with me.
- Johnny Farrell: Statistics show that there are more women in the world than anything else. Except insects.
- Obregon: All you can think of is the way Gilda looked at you when you struck her, isn't it? You two kids love each other very terribly, don't you?
- Johnny Farrell: I hate her!
- Obregon: That's what I mean. It's the most curious love-hate pattern I've ever had the privilege of witnessing.
- Ballin Mundson: [referring to his knife cane] It is a most faithful and obedient friend: it is silent when I want it to be silent, but talks when I want to talk.
- Johnny Farrell: Is it that your idea of a friend?
- Ballin Mundson: That is my idea of a friend.
- Johnny Farrell: You must lead a gay life.
- Johnny Farrell: I want to go with you, Gilda. Please take me. I know I did everything wrong...
- Gilda: [sobbing] Isn't it wonderful? Nobody has to apologize, because we were both stinkers, weren't we? Isn't it wonderful?
- Johnny Farrell: Wonderful.
- Johnny Farrell: Doesn't it bother you at all that you're married?
- Gilda: What I want to know is, does it bother you?
- Johnny Farrell: I thought we agreed that women and gambling didn't mix.
- Ballin Mundson: My wife does not come under the category of women, Johnny.
- [first lines]
- Johnny Farrell: To me a dollar was a dollar in any language. It was my first night in the Argentine and I didn't know much about the local citizens, but I knew about American sailors, and I knew I better get out of there.
- Johnny Farrell: [voice over] I hated her so I couldn't get her out of my mind for a minute. She was in the air I breathed - and the food I ate.
- Johnny Farrell: [narrating off screen] She still didn't believe I wasn't coming back. Every night she got all dressed up... and waited. But a girl like Gilda couldn't stand not knowing the why of things, so she decided to swallow her pride and came to see me. It was wonderful.
- Johnny Farrell: Hey, who's she?
- Uncle Pio: A harpy.
- Johnny Farrell: How would you classify me?
- Uncle Pio: [looks at the tip he was given] Peasant.
- Uncle Pio: Your shoes.
- Johnny Farrell: About time.
- Uncle Pio: Do you wish me to put them on your feet?
- Johnny Farrell: For how much?
- Uncle Pio: The charge is slight; because, I find this always a revealing vantage point. A worm's eye view. So often the true one.
- Johnny Farrell: From now on, you go anywhere you please, with anyone you please. But, I'm gonna take you there and I'm gonna pick you up and bring you home. Get that? Exactly the way I'd - take and pick up his laundry.
- Gilda: Shame on you, Johnny. Any psychiatrist would tell you that your thought associations are *very revealing.
- Johnny Farrell: What are you talking about?
- Gilda: Any psychiatrist would tell you that means something, Johnny.
- Johnny Farrell: Did you hear what I said.
- Gilda: Sure I heard what you said. You're gonna take me there and pick me up. All to protect Ballin. - - Who do you think you're kidding, Johnny?
- Gilda: Nobody could ever dance like you, Johnny. When a person dances with you, it's like they're a part of you, Johnny. It's like they're...
- Johnny Farrell: You haven't improved any, had you? You always did talk your head off all the time you were dancing.
- Gilda: You used to say, "For Pete's sake, Gilda, one thing at a time." And you used to say, "Talk or dance. But, don't do both things at the same time." You used to say...
- Johnny Farrell: I still say it.
- Gilda: I have to keep talking, Johnny. As long as I have my arms around you, I have to keep talking. I might forget to dance, Johnny.
- Johnny Farrell: What do you think you're trying to do?
- Gilda: I'm not even trying very hard. But, I'm doing it.
- Ballin Mundson: Did you teach Gilda how to swim, Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: I taught her everything she knows, Ballin. Does that satisfy you?
- Johnny Farrell: It looks like one thing; then, right in front of your eyes, it becomes another thing.
- Ballin Mundson: Well, you haven't much faith in the stability of women, have you Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: That's right.
- Ballin Mundson: One wonders who the woman was who brought our Johnny to this pretty past, don't one Gilda?
- Gilda: One does. Let's hate her. Shall we, Ballin?
- Ballin Mundson: Let's. Shall we, Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: Let's! Now, that I'll drink to.