McCloud (TV Series)

The Stage Is All the World (1970)

J.D. Cannon: Chief Peter Clifford

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Quotes 

• Ted Callender : Oh, I am sorry if my loud, crude, vulgar voice is giving you a headache.

  Chief Peter Clifford : The pain, Mr Callender, is not in my head.

  Ted Callender : Oh, you're a charmer, you are. Well I almost had a headache, you know what sort? The sort of headache you get when lead goes in here and comes out here!

  [indicating his head] 

• 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.