Quotes from Born Yesterday (1950)
10 quotes
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Harry Brock:
Don't you feel good? You want a aspirin?
Jim Devery: No, no, I'm fine. In fact, considering I've been dead for sixteen years I'm in remarkable health.
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Howard St. John
(as Jim Devery)
in
Born Yesterday
(1950)
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Harry Brock:
How d'ya like that! He could've had a hundred grand. She could've had me. Both wind up with nothin'... Dumb chump!... Crazy broad!
Jim Devery: [raises a glass as a toast] To all the dumb chumps and all the crazy broads, past, present, and future, who thirst for knowledge and search for truth... who fight justice and civilize each other... and make it so tough for crooks like you... [Harry stares at him angrily] Jim Devery: ...*and* me.
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Howard St. John
(as Jim Devery)
in
Born Yesterday
(1950)
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Harry Brock:
How d'ya like that?! He could've had a hundred grand. She could've had me. Both wind up with nothin'. Dumb chump! Crazy broad!
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Broderick Crawford
(as Harry Brock)
in
Born Yesterday
(1950)
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Harry Brock:
Look, this way I give her somethin', I'm a swell fella. We get married, she's got it coming, she thinks.
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Broderick Crawford
(as Harry Brock)
in
Born Yesterday
(1950)
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Howard St. John
(as Jim Devery)
in
Born Yesterday
(1950)
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Paul:
A world full of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.
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William Holden
(as Paul Verrall)
in
Born Yesterday
(1950)
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Harry Brock:
Shut up! You ain't gonna be tellin' nobody nothin' pretty soon!
Billie Dawn: DOUBLE NEGATIVE! Right? Paul Verrall: Right.
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William Holden
(as Paul Verrall)
in
Born Yesterday
(1950)
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Billie Dawn:
Could have saved yourself the trouble. I don't read papers.
Paul Verrall: Never? Billie Dawn: Yeah, once in a while the back part... the funnies. Paul Verrall: I think you should. The, the front part... the not-so-funnies.
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William Holden
(as Paul Verrall)
in
Born Yesterday
(1950)
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Billie Dawn:
How about the story of your life?
Paul Verrall: Oh no. Much too long... and mostly untrue.
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William Holden
(as Paul Verrall)
in
Born Yesterday
(1950)
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Billie Dawn:
You an' your big numbers, you don' watch out, you'll be wearing one
across yer chest!
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Judy Holliday
(as Emma 'Billie' Dawn)
in
Born Yesterday
(1950)
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