Billion Dollar Brain Quotes

Billion Dollar Brain is a television show that debuted in 1970 . Billion Dollar Brain completed its run in 1970.

It features Harry Saltzman as producer, Richard Rodney Bennett in charge of musical score, and Billy Williams (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Billion Dollar Brain is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Billion Dollar Brain is 111 minutes long. Billion Dollar Brain is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, Karl Malden as Leo Newbigen, Ed Begley as General Midwinter, Oskar Homolka as Colonel Stok, Oskar Homolka as Col.Stok, Guy Doleman as Col.Ross, Karl Malden as Leo Newbegin, Françoise Dorléac as Anya, and Vladek Sheybal as Dr. Eiwort.

Billion Dollar Brain Quotes

Françoise Dorléac as Anya

• (Françoise Dorléac) "Do you thing I tried to twice cross you?"
• (Michael Caine) "If you mean double cross, I think, yes."
• (Françoise Dorléac) "How exciting."

• (Françoise Dorléac) "Goodbye Harry. We would have made nice babies together. Good bye."

Guy Doleman as Col.Ross

• (Guy Doleman) "You get all your equipment from Kellogs?"

• (Guy Doleman) "You know, it's an extraordinary thing but I have the feeling you don't like working for me."

• (Guy Doleman) "If the Finnish police get a hold of you, Palmer, you'll be off the voting list for a long time."

• (Guy Doleman) "Your business is dead, Palmer. You're just about keeping alive on cornflakes."
• (Michael Caine) "The're full of vitamins."
• (Guy Doleman) "Really?"
• (Michael Caine) "Yeah."

• (Guy Doleman) "Of course you realize I could draft you back any time I like, but I'm doing the decent thing and asking you to come back, you should be bloody gratefull."
• (Michael Caine) "I'd be bloody grateful if you'd leave, Colonel."

Michael Caine as Harry Palmer

• (Michael Caine) "I suppose I ought to wish you good luck."
• (Vladek Sheybal) "You may do as you please. For me this is not a game of chance. And I am not in it for the money."
• (Michael Caine) "What is it then, your hobby?"

• (Michael Caine) "Some games are more dangerous than others."

• (Michael Caine) "OK, Leo, what's the catch?"
• (Karl Malden) "There's no catch."
• (Michael Caine) "Then who gets killed?"
• (Karl Malden) "Nobody gets killed."
• (Michael Caine) "There's no catch, and nobody gets killed? I'd still like to know more about it, Leo."

• (Michael Caine) "Dr. Kaarna, I presume?"

• (Michael Caine) "What does it do, tell fortunes?"
• (Karl Malden) "It makes fortunes: ours. Just a little toy, but it puts the MI5 and the CIA back into the Stone Age."

• (Michael Caine) "What exactly have you been saying we do in Latvia?"
• (Karl Malden) "I told the brain exactly what it wanted to hear."
• (Michael Caine) "Oh, yes? What would that be, Leo?"
• (Karl Malden) "I told it we had three hundred agents in Latvia dismantling missile sites and professional saboteurs ready for armed insurrection."
• (Michael Caine) "Er, or political assassination."
• (Karl Malden) "Um, hmn. Mass uprisings --"
• (Michael Caine) "Over throwing governments."
• (Karl Malden) "Yeah, over throwing anything at all."
• (Michael Caine) "Three hundred agents? How much a week?"
• (Karl Malden) "Thirty thousand dollars."
• (Michael Caine) "Thirty thousand dollars a week?"
• (Karl Malden) "Plus expenses and from now on, you're in on half."
• (Michael Caine) "Oh, thank you, Leo. But I would like to stay alive to spend it. That lunatic is about to invade Soviet territory."
• (Karl Malden) "And we're not going to be around when he does."
• (Michael Caine) "When he gets within five miles of the Latvian border, every alarm in the whole world will blow and four minutes later, nobody is going to be around."
• (Karl Malden) "You want your money, don't you?"

Ed Begley as General Midwinter

• (Ed Begley) "Don't try to cheat me, boy because my arm is long and my vengeance is terrible."

• (Ed Begley) "No, you don't understand the kind of love I have for this great country of ours. Love's not built that way, my way, any more. These days love is marriage, and the compensation is alimony; love these days is bravery under fire, and the compensation is medals; love is a donation of party funds, and the compensation is a political plum; love is some lady you left back in St. Louis, or a fast haul in the back seat of an automobile. My love is nothing like that. My love is this great company of brave young men, who are proud to make their country strong."

• (Ed Begley) "Leo, this entire area is surrounded. You cannot get away. Because my arm is long and my vengeance it total and may God forgive you, because I certainly won't."

• (Ed Begley) "Did you know for example, that the air in the East Coast of America is polluted by the reds? Oh, you might look at me, but boy, I tell you and I know that the air in Texas is the only truly wholesome air in this world. That is why I have not been out of Texas in twenty five years. I don't like the air in other places."
• (Michael Caine) "It's amazing how we all survive, really."

Oskar Homolka as Col.Stok

• (Oskar Homolka) "They think the Latvians on the verge of overthrowing their tyrannical overlords. Heh heh. They think that people walking in the street out there are dreaming of the moment when they can become capitalist serfs again. They think we all lie awake dreaming of going to America. They think they can distribute pamphlets and gold, and a vast monarchist army will materialize overnight."

• (Oskar Homolka) "He was a very stupid man. A patriot, of course -- very brave -- During a war, such men earn medals, win victories -- we are proud of them. But at such a time as now, a little bit stupid."

• (Oskar Homolka) "When I was a young man we had a song: "Where tears fall, a rose will grow". Do you know that song?"
• (Michael Caine) "No."
• (Oskar Homolka) "If that was true, Latvia would be a land full of roses. You've no idea what things happened here during the war. Latvia had its share of war criminals, that worked with the Nazis, even joined the SS and massacred thousands of their own countrymen."
• (Oskar Homolka) "Down the hatch. We've dossiers on hundreds of such Latvians. You would imagine that people guilty of such terror would remain quiet. But no, these scum are the worse troublemakers."

• (Oskar Homolka) "I suppose a young man like you wouldn't know the pleasure of removing a tight collar."
• (Michael Caine) "I thought Lenin called such comforts 'momentary interest'."
• (Oskar Homolka) "Don't tell me what Lenin said. I touched Lenin. I stood by him in Ruzheinaya Square in July, nineteen hundred and twenty; the second congress. I touched him. Those are the words he used to describe the comforts and pleasures with which the proletariat are diverted from their more important historic mission. But I am not being diverted. Well, are you going to offer me another drink?"
• (Michael Caine) "In England Colonel, the historic mission of the proletariat consists almost entirely of momentary interest."

Karl Malden as Leo Newbigen

• (Karl Malden) "Harry hey, what do you think, huh? Isn't she something?"
• (Michael Caine) "Yeah, she's great. How's the wife and kids, Leo?"

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