Cary Grant movie quotes

“Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but secrets.”
Cary Grant

“Little friend of all the world, nobody's enemy but my own.”
Cary Grant - Jimmy Monkley

“- Mortimer Brewster: How can I believe you? There are twelve men down in the cellar and you admit you poisoned them.
- Abby Brewster: Yes, I did. But you don't think I'd stoop to telling a fib.”
Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster
Josephine Hull - Abby Brewster

“- John Robie: I only regret one thing.
- Danielle Foussard: That you never asked me to marry you?
- John Robie: No, that I never taught you better English.”
Cary Grant - John Robie
Brigitte Auber - Daniele Foussard

“- Mrs. Random: Well who are you?
- David Huxley: I don't know. I'm not quite myself today.
- Mrs. Random: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.”

May Robson - Mrs. Random
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“He was lucky — and he knew it.”

Cary Grant

“Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.”
Cary Grant

“- Walter Burns: Sorta wish you hadn't done that, Hildy.
- Hildy Johnson: Done what?
- Walter Burns: Divorced me. Makes a fella lose all faith in himself. Gives him a... almost gives him a feeling he wasn't wanted.
- Hildy Johnson: That's what divorces are for!”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“She talked badly. Not dirty. I mean when she was called to set she’d yell, ‘I ain’t ready!’ That kind of bad. She was actually a prude. Innuendo was her game and not explicitness.”
Cary Grant On Mae West

“Divorce is a game played by lawyers.”
Cary Grant

“Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.”
Cary Grant

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
Cary Grant

“Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.”
Cary Grant

“- Mortimer Brewster: You mean you knew what you'd done and you didn't want the Reverend Harper to see the body?
- Abby Brewster: Not at tea. That wouldn't have been very nice.”

Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster
Josephine Hull - Abby Brewster

“The woman who talks baby talk. She's gotta go.”
Cary Grant

“- Jonathan Brewster: If you tell O'Hara what's in the window seat, I'll tell him what's in the cellar.
- Mortimer Brewster: Cellar?
- Jonathan Brewster: There's an elderly gentleman down there who seems to be very dead.”

Raymond Massey - Jonathan Brewster
Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster

“Nobody in Hollywood is innocent.”
Cary Grant

We're absolutely stupid to be embarked in a business where our face is connected with our accomplishments. When you get it from morning to night, it's no longer wonderful. No dear public ever did anything for me, and a few people in our industry have the courage to say, "Oh, my dear public, I'd kick 'em if I could".

Cary Grant

“- C. K. Dexter Haven: How in the world could you even think of it?
- Tracy Lord: Because he is everything you're not. He's been poor. He's had to work and he's had to fight for everything. And I love him, as I never even began to love you.”

Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven
Katharine Hepburn - Tracy Lord

“Resting's the sort of thing you've got to work up to gradually... very dangerous to rest all of a sudden.”
Cary Grant - George Kerby

“Never give a sucker an even break and always keep an eye on your pals.”

Cary Grant - Joe Adams - posing as Joe Bascopolous

“Can't you understand? I'm trying to do something noble for once in my life. Now get out of here before I change my mind. Come on.”

Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Hildy Johnson: I suppose I proposed to you?
- Walter Burns: Well, you practically did, making goo-goo eyes at me for two years until I broke down.”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Jerry Warriner: Naturally she's anxious to meet you, too, but...
- Lucy Warriner: Yes, tell her I'd love to meet her. Tell her to wear boxing gloves.”

Cary Grant - Jerry Warriner
Irene Dunne - Lucy Warriner

“This is developing into a very bad habit! I don't know if I can explain it to you. It's not only against the law, it's wrong!”

Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster