Quotes about Trouble

George Armstrong Custer: Well, for one thing you're an Englishman, not an American.
Lt. "Queen's Own" Butler: Not an American! What do you Yankees think you are? The only REAL Americans in this merry old parish are on the other side of the hill with feathers in their hair.
George Armstrong Custer: You're probably right about that. But there's 6,000 of them... and less than 600 of us. The regiment's being sacrificed, Butler, and I wouldn't want to see a foreigner butchered in a dirty deal like this,
Lt. "Queen's Own" Butler: Sporty of you to think of it that way. But I'll remind you, sir, I'm a member of the mess of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry. Fancy walking into the Service Club in Picadilly if the regiment... Get somebody else to post your blinking letter!
George Armstrong Custer: Thanks, 'Queen's Own'. Just so long as you know.

- Errol Flynn (as George Armstrong Custer) in They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

Devlin: You don't look so hot. Sick?
Alicia: [lies defiantly] No. Hangover.
Devlin: That's news. Back to bottle again, huh?
Alicia: It sort of... lightens my chores.

- Ingrid Bergman (as Alicia Huberman) in Notorious (1946)

Helen: Kane will be a dead man in half an hour and nobody's gonna do anything about it. And when he dies, this town dies too. I can feel it. I am all alone in the world. I have to make a living. So I'm going someplace else. That's all.

- Katy Jurado (as Helen Ramírez) in High Noon (1952)

Sam: (to his wife) Well, whaddya want? Do you want me to get killed? Do you want to be a widow, is that what you want?

- Harry Morgan (as Sam Fuller) in High Noon (1952)

Marshal Will Kane: Stay at the hotel until it's over.
Amy: No, I won't be here when it's over. You're asking me to wait an hour to find out if I'm going to be a wife or a widow. I say it's too long to wait! I won't do it!
Marshal Will Kane: Amy!
Amy: I mean it! If you won't go with me now, I'll be on that train when it leaves here.

- Grace Kelly (as Amy Fowler Kane) in High Noon (1952)

Roger Thornhill: Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed.

- Cary Grant (as Roger O. Thornhill) in North by Northwest (1959)

Roger Thornhill: And what the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here?
Phillip Vandamm: Games? Must we?
Roger Thornhill: Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets for the theater this evening, to a show I was looking forward to and I get, well, kind of *unreasonable* about things like that.
Phillip Vandamm: With such expert playacting, you make this very room a theater.

- James Mason (as Phillip Vandamm) in North by Northwest (1959)

Man at Prairie Crossing: That's funny, that plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.

- Malcolm Atterbury (as Man at Prairie Crossing) in North by Northwest (1959)

Clara Thornhill: You gentlemen aren't REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?

- Jessie Royce Landis (as Clara Thornhill) in North by Northwest (1959)

Phillip Vandamm: What possessed you to come blundering in here like this? Could it be an overpowering interest in art?
Roger Thornhill: Yes, the art of survival.

- Cary Grant (as Roger O. Thornhill) in North by Northwest (1959)