Film Quotes by James Stewart
219 quotes
Year: 1965
Director:
Robert Aldrich
Director:
Robert Aldrich
Lew Moran:
Time was you could take real pride, in just getting there, flying used to be fun Lou, it really was.
Frank Towns: He's crazy Lou, he builds toy airplanes.
Frank Towns: He's crazy Lou, he builds toy airplanes.
--
James Stewart
(as Frank Towns)
in
The Flight of the Phoenix
(1965)
Year: 1952
Director:
Anthony Mann
Director:
Anthony Mann
Jeremy Baile:
I don't like that man Cole.
Glyn McLyntock: Why not?
Jeremy Baile: I heard Grundy say he was a raider on the Missouri border.
Glyn McLyntock: Well, lots of people used to raid along the border.
Jeremy Baile: That kind can't change. When an apple's rotten, there's nothing you can do except throw it away or it will spoil the whole barrel.
Glyn McLyntock: Well, there's a difference between men and apples.
Glyn McLyntock: Why not?
Jeremy Baile: I heard Grundy say he was a raider on the Missouri border.
Glyn McLyntock: Well, lots of people used to raid along the border.
Jeremy Baile: That kind can't change. When an apple's rotten, there's nothing you can do except throw it away or it will spoil the whole barrel.
Glyn McLyntock: Well, there's a difference between men and apples.
--
James Stewart
(as Glyn McLyntock)
in
Bend of the River
(1952)
Year: 1939
Director:
John Cromwell
Director:
John Cromwell
--
James Stewart
(as John Horace Mason)
in
Made for Each Other
(1939)
Year: 1955
Director:
Anthony Mann
Director:
Anthony Mann
Chris Boldt:
Well, you strike me as a man that's looking for something and willing to pay for it.
Will Lockhart: Well, that depends upon what the information is and who's selling it.
Chris Boldt: Well, I ain't got no references. But anybody can tell you that Chris Boldt is a man not to be trusted. That means nobody's secrets are sacred with me.
Will Lockhart: Uh, huh. And just who were you figuring on selling out?
Chris Boldt: You just name 'em!
Will Lockhart: It wouldn't be *me*, would it?
Will Lockhart: Well, that depends upon what the information is and who's selling it.
Chris Boldt: Well, I ain't got no references. But anybody can tell you that Chris Boldt is a man not to be trusted. That means nobody's secrets are sacred with me.
Will Lockhart: Uh, huh. And just who were you figuring on selling out?
Chris Boldt: You just name 'em!
Will Lockhart: It wouldn't be *me*, would it?
--
James Stewart
(as Will Lockhart)
in
The Man from Laramie
(1955)
Year: 1950
Director:
Anthony Mann
Director:
Anthony Mann
Wyatt Earp:
Pick out a name and write it down.
Lin McAdam: All right if I use my own name?
Wyatt Earp: Some folks do.
Lin McAdam: Yeah... some folks do.
Lin McAdam: All right if I use my own name?
Wyatt Earp: Some folks do.
Lin McAdam: Yeah... some folks do.
--
James Stewart
(as Lin McAdam)
in
Winchester '73
(1950)
Year: 1950
Director:
Anthony Mann
Director:
Anthony Mann
Wyatt Earp:
That's Dutch Henry Brown. I thought you said you didn't know him.
Lin McAdam: I said I didn't recall the name.
Lin McAdam: I said I didn't recall the name.
--
James Stewart
(as Lin McAdam)
in
Winchester '73
(1950)
Year: 1940
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Alfred Kralik:
Now if I were a girl and had to choose between a young good-for-nothing with plenty of hair and a good, solid, mature citizen, I'd pick Mathias Popkin every time.
--
James Stewart
(as Alfred Kralik)
in
The Shop Around the Corner
(1940)
Year: 1940
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Alfred Kralik:
Pirovitch, did you ever get a bonus?
Pirovitch: Yes, once.
Alfred Kralik: Yeah. The boss hands you the envelope. You wonder how much is in it, and you don't want to open it. As long as the envelope's closed, you're a millionaire.
Pirovitch: Yes, once.
Alfred Kralik: Yeah. The boss hands you the envelope. You wonder how much is in it, and you don't want to open it. As long as the envelope's closed, you're a millionaire.
--
James Stewart
(as Alfred Kralik)
in
The Shop Around the Corner
(1940)
Year: 1941
Director:
Clarence Brown
Director:
Clarence Brown
Bill Smith:
Grandma always puts me in my place.
--
James Stewart
in
Come Live with Me
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Clarence Brown
Director:
Clarence Brown
Bill Smith:
I've had a poem running through my mind for a long time now. It's one that Christopher Marlowe wrote. It's... uh... well, listen.
[begins]
Bill Smith: Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove that hills and valleys, dales and fields, woods or craggy mountains yeild. And I will make ye beds of roses and a thousand fragrant posies...
[pauses]
Bill Smith: and... and... something, something, something, something...
[remembering]
Bill Smith: And if these pleasures do ye move, come live with me and be my love.
[begins]
Bill Smith: Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove that hills and valleys, dales and fields, woods or craggy mountains yeild. And I will make ye beds of roses and a thousand fragrant posies...
[pauses]
Bill Smith: and... and... something, something, something, something...
[remembering]
Bill Smith: And if these pleasures do ye move, come live with me and be my love.
--
James Stewart
in
Come Live with Me
(1941)