Dallas (TV Series)

For Love or Money (1979)

Ken Kercheval: Cliff Barnes

Quotes 

• Cliff Barnes : Look, I can't explain it. J.R. just pushes certain buttons and mayby I got to learn to play the other man's game.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : So that's what it is, just a game?

  Cliff Barnes : No.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : The winner takes the marbles and goes home. Is that what I am, just the marbles?

• Sue Ellen Ewing : Are you going to let J.R. beat you again? Are you going to let him raise my baby?

  Cliff Barnes : No. I want you. I want the baby. But I don't want you to use me to beat J.R.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : I wouldn't do that.

  Cliff Barnes : You're gonna have to start thinking how you can live without all that Ewing money, without Southfork, without all the things you've become accustomed to, because I'm a looong way from that world.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : I can try. As long as I know you need me and want me, I can try.

  Cliff Barnes : All right. We can try together.

• [last lines] 

  Cliff Barnes : Maxwell?

  Ben Maxwell : Yes.

  Cliff Barnes : You want your development? You've got it. You've got anything you want. You just get me that appointment. And that's for starters. You get me enough power, and you've got anything you want.

  [hangs up phone, says to himself] 

  Cliff Barnes : How's that for playing the game?