Quotes about Confusion

David Huxley: What do you want?
Mrs. Random: Well who are you?
David Huxley: Who are you?
Mrs. Random: Well, who are you?
David Huxley: What do you want?

- Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Mrs. Random: I want you to meet Mr. Bone.
David and Major Applegate simultaneously: How do you do Mr. Bone.
Mrs. Random: (to David): No, YOU'RE Mr. Bone. This is Major Applegate.

- May Robson (as Aunt Elizabeth Random) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Susan Vance: I was just telling Major Applegate that you were horribly clawed by a tiger in the Malay Peninsula.
David Huxley: I've never been there.

- Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Babe Bennett: That guy is either the dumbest, stupidest, most imbecilic idiot in the world, or else he's the grandest thing alive. I can't make him out.

- Jean Arthur in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Bill Cole: I kind of felt that he kind of felt that if I kind of told you that you'd know that he knew that you knew... or something.

- Melvyn Douglas (as Bill Cole) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

[He is reading a telegram]
Alberto Beddini: 'Come ahead. stop. Stop being a sap. stop. You can even bring Alberto. stop. My husband is stopping at your hotel. stop. when do you start. stop.' I cannot understand who wrote this.
Dale Tremont: Sounds like Gertrude Stein.

- Ginger Rogers (as Dale Tremont) in Top Hat (1935)

Jerry Travers: [realising why Dale has been behaving so peculiarly] She's been mistaking me for you this whole time.
Madge Hardwick: Well, no wonder she said he was interesting.
Horace Hardwick: Yes, no wonder... I resent that!

- Edward Everett Horton (as Horace Hardwick) in Top Hat (1935)

Mabel Anderson: [Mable thinks she's talking to Pop and turns to a young lady sitting at one of the tables] Oh, listen girlie! Don't worry about me. I always talk to myself... you see, I'm my own grandmother and I have to keep the old girl interested!

- Helen Broderick (as Mabel Anderson) in Swing Time (1936)

Mabel Anderson: Beautiful, isn't it?
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: What is?
Mabel Anderson: The music.
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: What music?
Mabel Anderson: The music they're playing.
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: Oh, yeah.
[pause]
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: What made you think of it?
Mabel Anderson: Think of what?
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: The music.
Mabel Anderson: [said sarcastically] Oh, I don't know; my mind was wandering, I guess.

- Helen Broderick (as Mabel Anderson) in Swing Time (1936)

[Quintas Arrius woke up, chained, on ship debris; the chain is held by Judah Ben-Hur]
Quintus Arrius: Why did you save me?
Judah Ben-Hur: Why did you have me un-chained?
[they struggle briefly, Arrius is overpowered; he looks at the shackle on Judah's ankle]
Quintus Arrius: What is your name, forty-one?
Judah Ben-Hur: Judah Ben-Hur.
Quintus Arrius: Judah Ben-Hur. Let me die.
Judah Ben-Hur: [echoing Arrius' words to the galley slaves] We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well, and live.

- Charlton Heston (as Judah Ben) in Ben-Hur (1959)