Quotes from Topper (1937)

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Roland Young
Hotel Manager: Perhaps you can explain the red on this cigarette.
Cosmo Topper: Yes, I... cut my tongue when I was shaving this morning.
- Roland Young (as Cosmo Topper) in Topper (1937)

Cary Grant
George Kerby: [goes to change Topper's flat tire] Well, I'll be darned if I waste any ectoplasm doing it.
[turns invisible]
- Cary Grant (as George Kerby) in Topper (1937)

Cary Grant
George Kerby: My pet, resting's the sort of thing you've got to work up to gradually... very dangerous to rest all of a sudden.
- Cary Grant (as George Kerby) in Topper (1937)

Constance Bennett
George Kerby: Quiet, I'm practicing to be an angel.
Marion Kerby: Some angel you'd make.
- Constance Bennett (as Marion Kerby) in Topper (1937)

Cary Grant
George Kerby: Say, if I'm in the way, you folks could leave.
- Cary Grant (as George Kerby) in Topper (1937)

Cary Grant
Cosmo Topper: [drunk] Well, that's how I dance. How do you like it?
George Kerby: [smiles and nods politely] Yes, I thought that was pretty - bad.
- Cary Grant (as George Kerby) in Topper (1937)

Roland Young
Cosmo Topper: [to George, referring to his wife] Yes, I'v never - never beaten her.
[awkwardly]
Cosmo Topper: Not... yet, I haven't.
[pauses, then nods to liquor on the table]
Cosmo Topper: Open the other bottle.
- Roland Young (as Cosmo Topper) in Topper (1937)

Roland Young
Cosmo Topper: [to two bewildered onlookers, who've been watching him talk to an invisible Marion] Well, is it *my* fault there's no one here?
- Roland Young (as Cosmo Topper) in Topper (1937)

Roland Young
Cosmo Topper: Good morning, Clara.
Mrs. Topper: Good morning, dear. You're late.
Cosmo Topper: Oh... better late than never. Only 44 seconds, anyhow.
- Roland Young (as Cosmo Topper) in Topper (1937)

Roland Young
Cosmo Topper: Having a little chair trouble, but, don't pay any attention to it.
- Roland Young (as Cosmo Topper) in Topper (1937)

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