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Film Quotes by Donald Crisp

16 quotes
National Velvet
Year: 1944

Director:
Clarence Brown
Donald Brown: I was sick all night!
Mr. Herbert Brown: Donald, you told a story, didn't you?
Donald Brown: Yes, sir, it was a story.
Mr. Herbert Brown: Well, you know what to do.
Donald Brown: What?
Mr. Herbert Brown: You say you're sorry.
[Donald puts his head on his hand]
Mr. Herbert Brown: Well?
Mrs. Brown: He's thinking.
Mr. Herbert Brown: [to Donald] Well, make up your mind.
Donald Brown: Alright, I'm sorry.
[continues eating his dinner]
Mr. Herbert Brown: Well, go on. Sorry for what?
Donald Brown: For being sick all night!
Mr. Herbert Brown: That boy will make a lawyer.
-- Donald Crisp (as Mr. Brown) in National Velvet (1944)
Whispering Smith
Year: 1948

Director:
Leslie Fenton
Barney Rebstock: [to Murray giving instructions for the upsoming shootout] One man behind the rock is worth three in the open.
-- Donald Crisp (as Barney Rebstock) in Whispering Smith (1948)
Broken Blossoms
Year: 1919

Director:
D.W. Griffith
Battling Burrows: Put a smile on yer face, can't yer?
Brother Orchid
Year: 1940

Director:
Lloyd Bacon
Brother Superior: When the heart speaks, Brother Orchid, other hearts must listen.
-- Donald Crisp (as Brother Superior) in Brother Orchid (1940)
Saddle the Wind
Year: 1958

Director:
Robert Parrish*John Sturges
Dennis Dineen: I'd rather send a son of mine riding and never see him again than have to bury him.
-- Donald Crisp (as Dennis Deneen) in Saddle the Wind (1958)
Father John Callahan: Who can say for certain what a man was really born to be? That's God's will. Someday Knute will find his right place in the world, and when he does, whether it be science or not, I have a feeling it will be the one he was meant to do.
-- Donald Crisp in Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
Bright Leaf
Year: 1950

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Major Singleton: I'm afraid I don't believe in cigarettes, much less a machine for makin' them. It turns my stomach, sir, every time I have occasion to witness someone pokin' one of those vile concoctions into their face. I deal in cigars, sir. Nothing less.
-- Donald Crisp (as Major James Singleton) in Bright Leaf (1950)
Bright Leaf
Year: 1950

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Major Singleton: I'm too old a horse to change my gait.
-- Donald Crisp (as Major James Singleton) in Bright Leaf (1950)
What Every Woman Knows
Year: 1934

Director:
Gregory La Cava
Mr. David Wylie: That's the way I like to hear you talk. A young Scotsman turned loose on the world with three hundred pounds. What could he not do? It's appalling to think of. Especially if he went among the English.
National Velvet
Year: 1944

Director:
Clarence Brown
Mr. Herbert Brown: Donald, go back to bed.
Donald Brown: I'll only fall asleep.
Mr. Herbert Brown: That is the general purport and intention.
-- Donald Crisp (as Mr. Brown) in National Velvet (1944)