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Film Quotes by Cary Grant

285 quotes
The Awful Truth
Year: 1937

Director:
Leo McCarey
[first lines]
Jerry Warriner: Come on, Haig, get that sun lamp ready.
-- Cary Grant (as Jerry Warriner) in The Awful Truth (1937)
Suspicion
Year: 1941

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
[first lines]
Johnnie Aysgarth: Oh, I beg your pardon. Was that your leg? I had no idea we were going into a tunnel. I thought the compartment was empty.
-- Cary Grant (as Johnnie) in Suspicion (1941)
Topper
Year: 1937

Director:
Norman Z. McLeod
[George and Marion watch a drunk Topper laying on the floor, passed out]
Marion Kerby: I don't think he's ever had a drink in his life.
George Kerby: Poor Topper.
Marion Kerby: Poor Topper.
Cosmo Topper: [mutters] Poor Topper.
George Kerby: You keep out of this.
-- Cary Grant (as George Kerby) in Topper (1937)
Operation Petticoat
Year: 1959

Director:
Blake Edwards
[Hunkle has revealed the picture of Gertie tattoed on his chest]
Lt. Nicholas Holden: [pointing to Gertie] They ought to hang you in the Louvre!
-- Cary Grant (as Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman) in Operation Petticoat (1959)
Suspicion
Year: 1941

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
[Johnnie and Lina are facing a large portrait of her father]
Johnnie Aysgarth: He doesn't like me.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: I know.
Johnnie Aysgarth: He doesn't trust me from here to there. (Speaking to portrait) Do you? Well, you're right. I can only bring her unhappiness. Well, warn her. Speak up, man. It's your last chance. (To Lina) Hear him?
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: Very distinctly.
Johnnie Aysgarth: He's not exaggerating a thing, dear. It's all true, every word he isn't saying.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: I love him, father.
Johnnie Aysgarth: Did you see him jump?
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: I did.
Johnnie Aysgarth: Well, watch this one. (Speaking to portrait) Sir, I have the honor of asking for your daughter's hand in marriage. Well, what do you say to that? (He begins tapping on the portrait and it falls off the wall) My oh my. You heard him that time, didn't you?
-- Cary Grant (as Johnnie) in Suspicion (1941)
Suspicion
Year: 1941

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
[Lina asks Johnnie how he intends to support them]
Johnnie Aysgarth: Well, if the worst comes to the worst and there's no other way out, I'll have to...
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: What?
Johnnie Aysgarth: Borrow some more.
-- Cary Grant (as Johnnie) in Suspicion (1941)
Suspicion
Year: 1941

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
[Lina starts to button her blouse]
Johnnie Aysgarth: Don't do that.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: Why not?
Johnnie Aysgarth: Because your ucipital mapilary is quite beautiful.
-- Cary Grant (as Johnnie) in Suspicion (1941)
Operation Petticoat
Year: 1959

Director:
Blake Edwards
[Lt. Barbara Duran climbing down a ships ladder]
Lt. Barbara Duran, RN: Am I uh, going down right?
Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman: Is she going down right?
Lt. Watson: She sure is.
-- Cary Grant (as Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman) in Operation Petticoat (1959)
Room for One More
Year: 1952

Director:
Norman Taurog
[repeated line]
George 'Poppy' Rose: Bon soir!
-- Cary Grant (as George 'Poppy' Rose) in Room for One More (1952)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Year: 1944

Director:
Frank Capra
[speaking of a character in a play he has seen]
Mortimer Brewster: He sits there *waiting* to be tied up and gagged!
[laughs]
Mortimer Brewster: The big dope!
-- Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)