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Film Quotes by George Sanders

79 quotes
All About Eve
Year: 1950

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Bill Sampson: I don't agree, Addison.
Addison DeWitt: That happens to be your particular abnormality.
-- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)
All About Eve
Year: 1950

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
[a butler passes by]
Miss Claudia Caswell: Oh, waiter!
Addison DeWitt: That is not a waiter, my dear, that is a butler.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Well, I can't yell "Oh butler!" can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler.
Addison DeWitt: You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point.
Miss Claudia Caswell: I don't want to make trouble. All I want is a drink.
Max Fabian: Leave it to me. I'll get you one.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Thank you, Mr. Fabian.
Addison DeWitt: Well done! I can see your career rise in the east like the sun.
-- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)
Hangover Square
Year: 1945

Director:
John Brahm
[last lines]
Sir Henry Chapman: Why didn't he try to get out?
Dr. Allan Middleton: It's better this way, sir.
-- George Sanders (as Dr. Allan Middleton) in Hangover Square (1945)
Journey to Italy
Year: 1953
[last lines]
Katherine Joyce: Tell me. I want to hear you say it.
Alexander 'Alex' Joyce: Alright, I love you.
The Jungle Book
Year: 1967

Director:
Wolfgang Reitherman
[Shere Khan is calmly stalking a deer just as Colonel Hathi and the other elephants frighten off his would-be prey with their noise]
Elephants: Hut, two, three, four. Hut, two, three, four.
Shere Khan: What beastly luck! Confound that ridiculous Colonel Hathi!
-- George Sanders (as Shere Khan the Tiger) in The Jungle Book (1967)
The Jungle Book
Year: 1967

Director:
Wolfgang Reitherman
[Shere Khan watches Colonel Hathi and the other elephants look for Mowgli while tearing down a bunch of trees]
Shere Khan: Element of surprise? Ho! I say. And now for my rendez-vous with the lost man-cub.
-- George Sanders (as Shere Khan the Tiger) in The Jungle Book (1967)
All About Eve
Year: 1950

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
[throwing door open]
Eve Harrington: Get out.
Addison DeWitt: You're too short for that gesture.
-- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)
Rebecca
Year: 1940

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Policeman: Is this your car, sir ?
Jack Favell: Yes.
Policeman: Will you be going soon ? This isn't a parking place, you know.
Jack Favell: Oh, isn't it ? People are entitled... to leave their cars outside if they want to. It's a pity some of you fellows haven't anything better to do!
-- George Sanders (as Jack Favell) in Rebecca (1940)
All About Eve
Year: 1950

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Eve Harrington: I won't play tonight. I couldn't, not possibly. I couldn't go on.
Addison DeWitt: Couldn't go on? You'll give the performance of your life.
-- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)
All About Eve
Year: 1950

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Addison DeWitt: And what's your name?
Phoebe: Phoebe.
Addison DeWitt: Phoebe?
Phoebe: I call myself Phoebe.
Addison DeWitt: And why not? Tell me, Phoebe, do you want someday to have an award like that of your own?
Phoebe: More than anything else in the world.
Addison DeWitt: Then you must ask Miss Harrington how to get one. Miss Harrington knows all about it.
-- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)