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Cab Driver:
I knew this would end up in the nuthouse.
Mr. Witherspoon: [offended] We like to think of it as a rest home!
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Edward Everett Horton
(as Mr. Witherspoon)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
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Mortimer Brewster:
[to Mr. Gibbs] You... Get out of here! D'ya wanna be poisoned? D'ya wanna be murdered? D'ya wanna be killed?
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Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
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Mortimer Brewster:
[trying to make Jonathan leave] Now, Jonathon. Be a good fellow. Here's ten dollars. Go out and haunt yourself a hotel?
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Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
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Mortimer Brewster:
But there's a body in the window seat!
Aunt Abby: Yes, dear, we know. Mortimer Brewster: You know? Martha Brewster: Of course! Aunt Abby: Yes, but it has nothing to do with Teddy. Now, Mortimer, you just forget about it. Forget you ever saw the gentleman. Mortimer Brewster: Forget? Aunt Abby: We never dreamed you'd peek. Mortimer Brewster: What the...?
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Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
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Mortimer Brewster:
Certainly there are thirteen bodies in the cellar and there are hundreds more in the attic!
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Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
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Mortimer Brewster:
I saw a play last week, it had a character in it, reminded me of Jonathon.
Abby Brewster: Oh, really? Mortimer Brewster: Yeah, a honey of a lunatic. One of those whodunits called "Murder Will Out". Abby Brewster: Oh, dear! Mortimer Brewster: Yeah, what a play. When the curtain goes up the first thing you see is a dead body. The next thing... [opens the window seat and finds a dead body]
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Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
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Mortimer Brewster:
Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well... insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops.
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Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
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Mortimer Brewster:
Mr. President, may I have the pleasure of presenting...
Teddy Brewster: Doctor Livingston? Dr. Gilchrist: Livingstone? Mortimer Brewster: Uh, well, that's what he presumes.
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Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
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Lt. Rooney:
Who are you? What's your name?
Mortimer Brewster: Well, usually I'm Mortimer Brewster, but I'm not quite myself today.
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Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
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[Elaine is impatient to leave on the honeymoon]
Elaine Harper: But, darling - Niagara Falls. Mortimer Brewster: It does? Well, let it.
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Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
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