Quotes about Frustration

Susan Vance: What would I be doing carrying a bone around?
David Huxley: I wouldn't dare give a reason for anything you do.

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

Susan Vance: Oh look, David -- a boot!
David Huxley: A boot!
Susan Vance: Don't hit George, David.
David Huxley: I wasn't going to hit GEORGE! (George is a dog)

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

Jan: If I could get a call through once in a while, my life wouldn't be so drab!

- Doris Day (as Jan Morrow) in Pillow Talk (1959)

Beverly Boyer: Are you still harping on that same old string?

- Doris Day (as Beverly Boyer) in The Thrill of It All (1963)

Constance 'Connie' Milligan: You look... messy. Don't you ever brush your hair?
Joe Carter: I bet Mr. Pendergast combs his hair every hour, on the hour.
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Mr. Pendergast has no hair!

- Jean Arthur (as Connie Milligan) in The More the Merrier (1943)

Jan: Mr. Allen, this may come as a surprise to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.

- Doris Day (as Jan Morrow) in Pillow Talk (1959)

Jim Blandings: What a morning! Bunny Funkhouser, blueberry pie and Wham!
Mary (secretary): How's that?
Jim Blandings: Oh nothing, Mary. Just a private joke between me and whoever's gonna be my analyst!

- Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Mario Manetta: What's the matter? Would it break your arm to pick up the phone?
Julius, his son: What's the point, It's for you.
Mario Manetta: How do you know? What are you a mind reader?
Sophie Manetta: Mario!
Mario Manetta: Everything he knows... our brilliant son.
Julius: Nobody would call me here.
Mario Manetta: Nobody should call you anywhere.

- Edward G. Robinson (as Mario Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Phil Green: No, no, I'm fine. I just wish I was dead is all.

- Gregory Peck (as Philip Schuyler Green) in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

Mammy: It ain't fittin', it just ain't fittin'.

- Hattie McDaniel (as Mammy) in Gone with the Wind (1939)