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Film Quotes by James Stewart

219 quotes
The FBI Story
Year: 1959

Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
John Michael Hardesty: [Opening narration] Webster's International Dictionary defines murder as the unlawful taking of human life by another human being. On a November evening in 1955 the definition became obsolete. A mass murder was being planned.
The FBI Story
Year: 1959

Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
John Michael Hardesty: On Sunday morning he left the house. He couldn't be going to work. Since he was a Communist, we knew he wasn't going to church.
Malaya
Year: 1949

Director:
Richard Thorpe
John Royer: [offering boiled coffee to his uninvited guest] My butler got drafted, my Jap boy's interned.
Kellar: Terrible war.
John Royer: Sure is.
-- James Stewart in Malaya (1949)
Malaya
Year: 1949

Director:
Richard Thorpe
John Royer: Carnaghan, this is Kellar, a government agent. Anything you say he knows already.
-- James Stewart in Malaya (1949)
Firecreek
Year: 1968

Director:
Vincent McEveety
Johnny Cobb: [Screaming to the townspeople after finding Arthur has been taken from the jail and lynched] How could you let it happen?
Firecreek
Year: 1968

Director:
Vincent McEveety
Johnny Cobb: [to Whittier, who is reluctant to give him a gun] Search for a place where there are no bruises and tie it up with a ribbon, and tell yourself that what's inside is the sum total of your life, and what I didn't see was the day a man decides not to face the world is the day he better step out of it. Now give me that gun!
The Ice Follies of 1939
Year: 1939

Director:
Reinhold Schünzel
Larry Hall: Stars are a million miles apart; they never touch. They live away from each other, cold and lonely - like we'll have to do.
Winchester '73
Year: 1950

Director:
Anthony Mann
Lin McAdam: Say, ah, about these Indians. It seems like they hardly ever attack at night.
Sgt. Wilkes: Why?
Lin McAdam: Well, they figure if they are killed in the dark, the Great Spirit can't find their souls and whip 'em up into heaven... or something like that.
-- James Stewart (as Lin McAdam) in Winchester '73 (1950)
The Philadelphia Story
Year: 1940

Director:
George Cukor
Macaulay Connor: [drunk, to driver] Well, this is where Cinderella gets off, now you hurry back to the ball before you turn into a pumpkin and six white mice, goodbye.
-- James Stewart (as Macaulay Connor) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Philadelphia Story
Year: 1940

Director:
George Cukor
Macaulay Connor: [drunk] You going my way miss?
Tracy Lord: [drunk] That's "Miss Goddess" to you
Macaulay Connor: Okay, Miss Goddess To Me.
-- James Stewart (as Macaulay Connor) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)