Film Quotes by Cary Grant
285 quotes
Year: 1959
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Eve Kendall:
What happened with your first two marriages?
Roger Thornhill: My wives divorced me.
Eve Kendall: Why?
Roger Thornhill: They said I led a dull life.
Roger Thornhill: My wives divorced me.
Eve Kendall: Why?
Roger Thornhill: They said I led a dull life.
--
Cary Grant
(as Roger O. Thornhill)
in
North by Northwest
(1959)
Year: 1959
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Phillip Vandamm:
What possessed you to come blundering in here like this? Could it be an overpowering interest in art?
Roger Thornhill: Yes, the art of survival.
Roger Thornhill: Yes, the art of survival.
--
Cary Grant
(as Roger O. Thornhill)
in
North by Northwest
(1959)
Year: 1957
Director:
Leo McCarey
Director:
Leo McCarey
Interviewer:
I'm sure you had some wonderful experiences in Europe.
Nickie Ferrante: Yes.
Interviewer: Would you care to expand on that statement?
Nickie Ferrante: No.
Nickie Ferrante: Yes.
Interviewer: Would you care to expand on that statement?
Nickie Ferrante: No.
--
Cary Grant
(as Nickie Ferrante)
in
An Affair to Remember
(1957)
Year: 1949
Director:
Howard Hawks
Director:
Howard Hawks
Soldier:
You're not Mrs. Rochard!
Capt. Henri Rochard: I'm *Mr.* Rochard.
Soldier: Well, it's your *wife* who must report here for transportation to Bremerhaven.
Capt. Henri Rochard: According to the War Department, I *am* my wife.
Soldier: You can't be your wife!
Capt. Henri Rochard: If the American army says I can be my wife, who am I to dispute them?
Capt. Henri Rochard: I'm *Mr.* Rochard.
Soldier: Well, it's your *wife* who must report here for transportation to Bremerhaven.
Capt. Henri Rochard: According to the War Department, I *am* my wife.
Soldier: You can't be your wife!
Capt. Henri Rochard: If the American army says I can be my wife, who am I to dispute them?
--
Cary Grant
(as Capt. Henri Rochard)
in
I Was a Male War Bride
(1949)
Year: 1944
Director:
Frank Capra
Director:
Frank Capra
[Elaine is impatient to leave on the honeymoon]
Elaine Harper: But, darling - Niagara Falls.
Mortimer Brewster: It does? Well, let it.
Elaine Harper: But, darling - Niagara Falls.
Mortimer Brewster: It does? Well, let it.
--
Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Frank Capra
Director:
Frank Capra
[on the telephone]
Mortimer Brewster: Hello... Operator? Can you hear my voice? You can? Are you sure?
[hangs up]
Mortimer Brewster: Well, then I must be here.
Mortimer Brewster: Hello... Operator? Can you hear my voice? You can? Are you sure?
[hangs up]
Mortimer Brewster: Well, then I must be here.
--
Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Frank Capra
Director:
Frank Capra
--
Cary Grant
(as Mortimer Brewster)
in
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
Year: 1938
Director:
Howard Hawks
Director:
Howard Hawks
David Huxley: I'll be with you in a minute Mr. Peabody!
--
Cary Grant
(as Dr. David Huxley)
in
Bringing up Baby
(1938)
Year: 1958
Director:
Melville Shavelson
Director:
Melville Shavelson
Angelo Donatello: Did you make up your mind about the boat? You wanna rent, do you wanna buy, you wanna make a deal?
Tom Winters: It's a leaky, broken down soggy derelict that'll probably sink and dump us all into the river --- but I wouldn't think of living any other place. Yeh, I'll make a deal.
Tom Winters: It's a leaky, broken down soggy derelict that'll probably sink and dump us all into the river --- but I wouldn't think of living any other place. Yeh, I'll make a deal.
--
Cary Grant
(as Tom Winters)
in
Houseboat
(1958)
Year: 1948
Director:
H.C. Potter
Director:
H.C. Potter
Joan Blandings: Miss Stellwagon says advertising is a basically parasitic profession.
Jim Blandings: You don't say?
Joan Blandings: Miss Stellwagon says advertising makes people who can't afford it, buy things they don't want, with money they haven't got.
Jim Blandings: Oh she does, does she? Well perhaps your Miss Stellwagon is right. Perhaps I should quit this basically parasitic profession, which at the very moment is paying for your fancy tuition and those extra French lessons and that progressive summer camp - to say nothing of the very braces on your back teeth.
Jim Blandings: You don't say?
Joan Blandings: Miss Stellwagon says advertising makes people who can't afford it, buy things they don't want, with money they haven't got.
Jim Blandings: Oh she does, does she? Well perhaps your Miss Stellwagon is right. Perhaps I should quit this basically parasitic profession, which at the very moment is paying for your fancy tuition and those extra French lessons and that progressive summer camp - to say nothing of the very braces on your back teeth.
--
Cary Grant
(as Jim Blandings)
in
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
(1948)