Quotes about Worry

Charles J. Pendergast: Mr. Carter, I lie awake nights just worrying about the situation.
Benjamin Dingle: Little do you know how much you've got to worry about.
Charles J. Pendergast: Oh yes I do.
Benjamin Dingle: Oh no you don't.
Charles J. Pendergast: Oh yes I do.
Benjamin Dingle: Oh no you don't!

- Charles Coburn (as Benjamin Dingle) in The More the Merrier (1943)

Grandpa Vanderhoff: Stop worrying. If I know my granddaughter, she isn't going to marry Tony without your blessing. So the only thing you've got to be concerned about is this big deal of yours. So what if it does fall through? What if all your deals fall through? Might be a good thing for you.

- Lionel Barrymore (as Martin Vanderhof) in You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Sig Poliakoff: You're the wrong shape. Goodbye!
Joe: What are you looking for - hunchbacks or something?
Sig Poliakoff: It's not the backs that worry me.

- Billy Gray (as Sig Poliakoff) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Helen: What kind of woman are you? How can you leave him like this? Does the sound of guns frighten you that much?
Amy: I've heard guns. My father and my brother were killed by guns. They were on the right side but that didn't help them any when the shooting started. My brother was nineteen. I watched him die. That's when I became a Quaker. I don't care who's right or who's wrong. There's got to be some better way for people to live. Will knows how I feel about it.

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

Thomas Dunson: Give me ten years, and I'll have that brand on the gates of the greatest ranch in Texas. The big house will be down by the river, and the corrals and the barns behind it. It'll be a good place to live in. Ten years and I'll have the Red River D on more cattle than you've looked at anywhere. I'll have that brand on enough beef to feed the whole country. Good beef for hungry people. Beef to make 'em strong, make 'em grow. But it takes work, and it takes sweat, and it takes time, lots of time. It takes years.

- John Wayne (as Thomas Dunson) in Red River (1948)

[after observing the gambling tables at Rick's]
Customer: Are you sure this place is honest?
Carl: Honest? As honest as the day is long!

- S.Z. Sakall (as Carl) in Casablanca (1942)

[as he goes to hand Renault a bribe]
Jan Brandel: Captain Renault... may I?
Captain Renault: Oh no! Not here please! Come to my office tomorrow morning. We'll do everything businesslike.
Jan Brandel: We'll be there at six!
Captain Renault: I'll be there at ten.

- Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca (1942)

Prince Feisal: To be great again, it seems that we need the english... or...
T.E. Lawrence: Or?
Prince Feisal: What no man can provide, Mr. Lawrence. We need a miracle.

- Alec Guinness (as Prince Feisal) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Captain William Bligh: During the recent heavy weather, I've had the opportunity to watch all of you at work on deck and aloft. You don't know wood from canvas! And it seems you don't want to learn! Well, I'll have to give you a lesson

- Charles Laughton (as Bligh) in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Professor Henry Higgins: Would I run off and never tell me where I'm going?

- Rex Harrison (as Professor Henry Higgins) in My Fair Lady (1964)