Film Quotes by Melvyn Douglas
39 quotes
Year: 1939
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Leon:
I'll picket your whole country! I'll boycott you! No more vodka! No more caviar! No more Tchaikovsky! No more borscht!
--
Melvyn Douglas
(as Leon)
in
Ninotchka
(1939)
Year: 1939
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Leon:
It's midnight. Look at the clock, one hand has met the other hand, they kiss. Isn't that wonderful?
--
Melvyn Douglas
(as Leon)
in
Ninotchka
(1939)
Year: 1939
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Leon:
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
--
Melvyn Douglas
(as Leon)
in
Ninotchka
(1939)
Year: 1939
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Leon:
What kind of a girl are you, anyway?
Ninotchka: Just what you see. A tiny cog in the great wheel of evolution.
Leon: You're the most adorable cog I've ever seen.
Ninotchka: Just what you see. A tiny cog in the great wheel of evolution.
Leon: You're the most adorable cog I've ever seen.
--
Melvyn Douglas
(as Leon)
in
Ninotchka
(1939)
Year: 1932
Director:
Tay Garnett
Director:
Tay Garnett
Lt.:
Tell me, what sort of a trip did you have, eh? Pretty rough?
Capt. Remy Baudoin: Not bad. There was an episode with some crocodiles. I thought for a moment I was gone. But it appears they prefer dark meat.
Lt.: Boatman?
[casually]
Lt.: Too bad.
Capt. Remy Baudoin: Not bad. There was an episode with some crocodiles. I thought for a moment I was gone. But it appears they prefer dark meat.
Lt.: Boatman?
[casually]
Lt.: Too bad.
--
Melvyn Douglas
in
Prestige
(1932)
Year: 1949
Director:
Nicholas Ray
Director:
Nicholas Ray
Luke Jordan:
I apologise.
Susan Caldwell aka Estrellita: [smiling] Apology accepted. And no offense taken I'm sure.
Luke Jordan: Thank you very much. I'm sure.
[pause]
Luke Jordan: Gladly.
Susan Caldwell aka Estrellita: [smiling] Apology accepted. And no offense taken I'm sure.
Luke Jordan: Thank you very much. I'm sure.
[pause]
Luke Jordan: Gladly.
--
Melvyn Douglas
(as Luke Jordan)
in
A Woman's Secret
(1949)
Year: 1936
Director:
Richard Boleslawski
Director:
Richard Boleslawski
Michael Grant:
Not too heavy, not too light, eat more fish, sits just right.
--
Melvyn Douglas
in
Theodora Goes Wild
(1936)
Year: 1962
Director:
Peter Ustinov
Director:
Peter Ustinov
The Dansker, sailmaker:
[At Billy's court-martial] I look around and sense finality here.
--
Melvyn Douglas
(as The Dansker, sailmaker)
in
Billy Budd
(1962)
Year: 1962
Director:
Peter Ustinov
Director:
Peter Ustinov
[Billy and the Dansker have just witnessed a flogging]
Billy Budd: What was his crime?
The Dansker, sailmaker: Any one of many possible reasons.
Billy Budd: You mean you don't know what he did?
The Dansker, sailmaker: Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!
Billy Budd: What was his crime?
The Dansker, sailmaker: Any one of many possible reasons.
Billy Budd: You mean you don't know what he did?
The Dansker, sailmaker: Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!
--
Melvyn Douglas
(as The Dansker, sailmaker)
in
Billy Budd
(1962)
Year: 1932
Director:
James Whale
Director:
James Whale
[Morgan slowly opens the door]
Morgan: [groaning and muttering]
Roger Penderel: Even Welsh ought not to sound like that!
Morgan: [groaning and muttering]
Roger Penderel: Even Welsh ought not to sound like that!
--
Melvyn Douglas
(as Roger Penderel)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)