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Film Quotes by Robert Young

17 quotes
Stowaway
Year: 1936

Director:
William A. Seiter
Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching: This is Susan Parker, my best friend. He's my best friend, too. Don't you think she's extravagant?
Tommy Randall: She's magnificent.
Susan Parker: Thank you. Charming little niece you have there.
Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching: I'm not really his niece, Susan. I'm just pretending.
Captain of SS Victoria: Mr. Randall, aren't you the child's uncle?
Tommy Randall: No, we met in Shanghai yesterday for the first time.
-- Robert Young (as Tommy Randall) in Stowaway (1936)
Stowaway
Year: 1936

Director:
William A. Seiter
Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching: To be with the one you love is better for your health than medicine.
Judge J.D. Booth: That sounds like a Chinese proverb.
Tommy Randall: Oh, Judge, you haven't heard anything yet.
-- Robert Young (as Tommy Randall) in Stowaway (1936)
Northwest Passage
Year: 1940

Director:
King Vidor*Jack Conway*W.S. Van Dyke
Cap Huff: [to Langton] If you're tryin' to drink yourself outta lovesickness, why don't you switch to rum? We've got some rum that'll burn the knots out of a pine plank.
Langdon Towne: [Drunkenly] Bring 'em me.
Northwest Passage
Year: 1940

Director:
King Vidor*Jack Conway*W.S. Van Dyke
Maj. Robert Rogers: [referring to Langdon's abdominal wound] Are ypu hurt bad?
Langdon Towne: First thing I've had in my stomach in days.
Western Union
Year: 1941

Director:
Fritz Lang
Sue Creighton: You're happy, aren't you?
Richard Blake: Every man is when his dream is materialized.
-- Robert Young (as Richard Blake) in Western Union (1941)
Secret Agent
Year: 1936

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Mrs. Caypor: Do you understand German, Mr. Marvin?
Robert Marvin: No, but I speak it fluently.
-- Robert Young (as Robert Marvin) in Secret Agent (1936)
Stowaway
Year: 1936

Director:
William A. Seiter
Susan Parker: Richard! This is a surprise!
Richard Hope: It's a surprise for me, too.
Susan Parker: Oh, uh, Richard, this is Mr. Randall, and this is Miss Ching-Ching Stewart. I never thought I'd see you here.
Richard Hope: Evidently not.
Susan Parker: Weren't you surprised to see him here?
Mrs. Hope: Hardly. I sent for him.
Susan Parker: Marvelous. I love surprises, and I hardly ever get them.
Mrs. Hope: Susan, I think your friends will excuse you.
Susan Parker: Oh, Tommy, I must be going. You'll look after Ching-Ching, won't you?
Tommy Randall: She'll be perfectly fine.
Susan Parker: [leaving] Goodbye, darling.
Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching: Goodbye, Aunt Susan. You like Susan, don't you, Uncle Tommy?
Tommy Randall: You could call it that.
Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching: I don't see how anyone could have fun with that Mr. Hope.
Tommy Randall: I'm afraid fun isn't everything, Ching-Ching.
-- Robert Young (as Tommy Randall) in Stowaway (1936)
Remember Last Night?
Year: 1935

Director:
James Whale
Carlotta Milburn: I feel like the bride of Frankenstein.
Tony Milburn: Thanks a lot.
Stowaway
Year: 1936

Director:
William A. Seiter
Atkins: There's a young lady to see you, sir, I think it's rather urgent.
Tommy Randall: Oh, that's bad.
Atkins: She's very beautiful, sir.
Tommy Randall: Oh? That's not so bad.
Atkins: She has a child with her, sir.
Tommy Randall: Oh, that is bad.
Atkins: She also has the captain with her, and he insists upon seeing you, sir.
Tommy Randall: Oh, that's very bad!
Atkins: Here you are, sir?
Tommy Randall: What's that?
Atkins: Your checkbook, sir.
Tommy Randall: I don't know what your game is, young lady, but it won't work! I've never seen you before in my life, and besides I have witnesses to account for my whereabouts for the past twenty-seven years!
Susan Parker: Mr. Randall!
Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching: Uncle Tommy!
Tommy Randall: Ching-Ching!
-- Robert Young (as Tommy Randall) in Stowaway (1936)
Slightly Dangerous
Year: 1943

Director:
Wesley Ruggles
Bob Stuart: I couldn't hate you, darling. Unless you turned out to be a... female impersonator. And I'll bet you my bottom dollar you're not.