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

“- Barnaby: Do you regret not having married him?
- Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Look who's talking! What about Elvira Bliss?
- Barnaby: Oh, for heaven's sake. Elvira Bliss. That was in grammar school.
- Mrs. Edwina Fulton: I know. She was the teacher.”
Cary Grant - Dr. Barnaby Fulton
Ginger Rogers - Mrs. Edwina Fulton

“- Oliver Oxley: Now, the question is, how much cash do you want? Barnaby, I said how much cash do you want? Name any amount.
- Barnaby: A zillion dollars!
- Oliver Oxley: What?
- G.J. Culverly: How much did he say?
- Barnaby: A zillion dollars - that's a million trillion.”
Charles Coburn - Mr. Oliver Oxley
Cary Grant - Dr. Barnaby Fulton
Larry Keating - G.J. Culverly

“- Barnaby: Edwina, imagine: people never aging.
- Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Oh, it sounds frightening.”
Cary Grant - Dr. Barnaby Fulton
Ginger Rogers - Mrs. Edwina Fulton

“- Barnaby: I was just thinking, it's queer about people.
- Mrs. Edwina Fulton: What about people?
- Barnaby: Through no fault of their own they get older.
- Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Now, that's a profound remark.
- Barnaby: They get older, something happens to them.
- Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Are you referring to me Barnaby?
- Barnaby: Nah, I was thinking...” (continue) (continue reading)
Cary Grant - Dr. Barnaby Fulton
Ginger Rogers - Mrs. Edwina Fulton

“In my opinion, your opinion that it's a silly song is a silly opinion.”
Cary Grant - Dr. Barnaby Fulton

“I'm beginning to wonder if being young is all it's cracked up to be. We dream of youth. We remember it as a time of nightingales and valentines. But what are the facts? Maladjustment, near idiocy, and a series of low comedy disasters. That's what youth is. I don't see how anyone survives it.”
Cary Grant - Dr. Barnaby Fulton

“I couldn't see straight or think straight. I was a fat-headed guy, full of pain.”
Cary Grant - Devlin

“Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.”

Cary Grant - Devlin

“- Alexander Sebastian: I'm not afraid to die.
- Devlin: You've got your chance, here and now.”
Claude Rains - Alexander Sebastian
Cary Grant - Devlin

“- Alicia: I'm terrified.
- Devlin: Just pretend you're a janitor. Janitors are never terrified.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman
Cary Grant - Devlin

“- Alicia: Don't ever leave me.
- Devlin: You'll never get rid of me again.
- Alicia: Never tried to.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman
Cary Grant - Devlin

“- Alicia: Say it again, it keeps me awake.
- Devlin: I love you.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman
Cary Grant - Devlin

“- Alicia: This is a very strange love affair.
- Devlin: Why?
- Alicia: Maybe the fact that you don't love me.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman
Cary Grant - Devlin

“A man doesn't tell a woman what to do. She tells herself.”
Cary Grant - Devlin

“- 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