Quotes from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

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James Stewart
George Bailey: Now, you listen to me! I don't want any plastics, and I don't want any ground floors, and I don't want to get married - ever - to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do. And you're... and you're...
[runs out of words, sees her crying]
George Bailey: Oh, Mary, Mary...
Mary: George... George... George...
George Bailey: [kisses her intensely] Mary... Would you?... Would you?...
- James Stewart (as George Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

James Stewart
George Bailey: Rochester? Why Rochester?
- James Stewart (as George Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

James Stewart
George Bailey: Well, just come back here, Mister. I'll give her a kiss that'll put hair back on your head!
- James Stewart (as George Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

James Stewart
George Bailey: Well, maybe I left the car up at Martini's. Well, come on, Gabriel.
Clarence: Clarence!
George Bailey: Clarence. Right... Clarence.
- James Stewart (as George Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

James Stewart
George Bailey: Well, you look about the kind of angel I'd get. Sort of a fallen angel, aren't you? What happened to your wings?
- James Stewart (as George Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

James Stewart
George Bailey: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.
Mary: I'll take it. Then what?
George Bailey: Well, then you can swallow it, and it'll all dissolve, see... and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair... am I talking too much?
- James Stewart (as George Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

James Stewart
George Bailey: You call this a happy family? Why do we have to have all these kids?
- James Stewart (as George Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Beulah Bondi
Ma Bailey: [speaking of Mary Hatch] Why, she lights up like a firefly whenever you are around. Besides, Sam Wainright is off in New York, and you're here in Bedford Falls...
George Bailey: And all's fair in love and war, right?
Ma Bailey: [fixing his collar] Well, I don't know about war...
- Beulah Bondi (as Ma Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Thomas Mitchell
Uncle Billy: After all, Potter, some people like George HAD to stay at home. Not every heel was in Germany and Japan.
- Thomas Mitchell (as Uncle Billy Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Henry Travers
Clarence: [In book inscription] Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends.

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