McCloud (TV Series)

The Stage Is All the World (1970)

Dennis Weaver: Sam McCloud

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Quotes 

• Sam McCloud : Mr Callender, about that party o' yours tonight...

  Ted Callender : I ain't calling it off.

  Sam McCloud : You know it's going to be very difficult to guard you with all those people there.

  Ted Callender : Well, that's your problem, mate.

  Sam McCloud : It's your life.

• Chief Peter Clifford : You don't deal with actors much down on the farm, do you?

  Sam McCloud : No, there's not too many of them out on the mesa.

  Chief Peter Clifford : Well, most of them are normal, hardworking people. But there's an element that's emotionally unstable, psychically insecure. You take that for starters, stir with frustration, add a gun, and you come up with a Les Lander.

  Sam McCloud : Yeah, for them it's not 'all the world's a stage,' it's the stage is all the world.

  Chief Peter Clifford : You read Shakespeare in the bunkhouse.

  Sam McCloud : I thought that was Zane Grey.

• Payroll Clerk : According to overtime, you've earned, uhm... two extra days off. You're entitled to 48 hours on the town.

  Sam McCloud : Really?

  [chuckles] 

  Sam McCloud : Well, you know something? I'd ask you out for dinner, but according to this, I can't afford nothin' but a glass o' water and free ketchup.

  Payroll Clerk : [eagerly]  I accept.

  Sam McCloud : Hey, there ya go.