Sterling Hayden Quotes


I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.


Citations

The Killing. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, performance by Sterling Hayden, United Artists, 1956.

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Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden
  • Born: March 26, 1916
  • Died: May 23, 1986
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actor, Author, Sailor, Model, Marine, OSS Agent

Sterling Walter Hayden was an American actor, author, sailor and decorated Marine Corps officer and OSS agent (from services during World War II). A leading man for most of his career, he specialized in westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956). He became noted for supporting roles in the 1960s, perhaps most memorably as General Jack D. Ripper in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).