Quotes about The Opposite Sex

Adam Bonner: Ah. Guaranteed heart-melter. A few female tears, stronger than any acid.

- Spencer Tracy (as Adam Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Tom Winters: Cinzia, Cinzia!
David Winters: Ssshh! You'll wake her.
Tom Winters: That's exactly what I intend to do. I have to be at the office in 45 minutes now.
David Winters: Then just shake her a little.
Tom Winters: Uh, uh, uh. You shake her.
David Winters: What's the matter, you scared?
Tom Winters: Yes, I'm scared.

- Cary Grant (as Tom Winters) in Houseboat (1958)

Tom Winters: She's a very nice girl, isn't she?
Angelo Donatello: Yeah, and that can louse up an evening faster than anything.

- Harry Guardino (as Angelo Donatello) in Houseboat (1958)

Cinzia Zaccardi: Will you assist me? This is the necklace my mother wore the night my father proposed to her.
Angelo Donatello: Proposed???
Cinzia Zaccardi: Uh huh. I never had it on before.
Angelo Donatello: Excuse me, I -- I just remembered something... My brother's very sick -- very, very sick. I was, uh, I was bringing him these flowers. That's why I came over to talk to you about. Really. My apologies. Forgive me. Shoot me -- but I'm not taking you to no dance!

- Harry Guardino (as Angelo Donatello) in Houseboat (1958)

Cherry: There are only two things more beautiful than a gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. Ever had a good... Swiss watch?

- John Ireland (as Cherry Valance) in Red River (1948)

Jerry: Will you look at that! Look how she moves! It's like Jell-O on springs. Must have some sort of built-in motor or something. I tell you, it's a whole different sex!

- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Daphne: How about that talent, huh? It's like falling into a tub of butter.
Joe: Watch it, Daphne!
Daphne: When I was a kid, Joe, I used to have a dream. I was locked up overnight in a pastry shop, and there was goodies all around. There was jelly rolls, and mocha eclairs, and sponge cake and Boston cream pie...
Joe: Look, Stoop...
Daphne: and cherry tart...
Joe: Stoop, listen to me! No butter, no pastry. We're on a diet!

- Tony Curtis (as Joe/Josephine) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Bake Baker: [about Bilge] He's stuck on that Iris Manning. Say, what's she like?
Sherry Martin: Anything in a uniform.

- Ginger Rogers (as Sherry Martin) in Follow the Fleet (1936)

Aunt Hortense: You know, you're beginning to fascinate me, and I resent that in any man.

- Alice Brady (as Aunt Hortense) in The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Egbert Fitzgerald: Guy, you're not pining for that girl!
Guy Holden: Pining? Men don't pine. Girls pine. Men just... suffer.

- Fred Astaire (as Guy Holden) in The Gay Divorcee (1934)