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

“- Eve Kendall: I want you to do a favor for me. A big, big favor.
- Roger Thornhill: Name it.
- Eve Kendall: I want you to leave right now, stay far away from me, and don't come near me again. We're not going to get involved. Last night was last night, and it's all there was, and it's all there is. There isn't going to be anything more between...” (continue)(continue reading)
Eva Marie Saint - Eve Kendall
Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill

“- Eve Kendall: Patience is a virtue.
- Roger Thornhill: So is breathing.”
Eva Marie Saint - Eve Kendall
Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill

“- The Professor: If I thought there was any chance of changing your mind, I'd talk about Miss Kendall, of whom you so obviously disapprove.
- Roger Thornhill: Yes, for using sex like some people use a flyswatter.”
Leo G. Carroll - The Professor
Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill

“- Roger Thornhill: How do we know it's not a fake? It looks like a fake.
- Bidder: Well, one thing we know. You're no fake. You are a genuine idiot.”
Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill
Helen Spring - Bidder

“- Roger Thornhill: What's wrong with men like me?
- Eve Kendall: They don't believe in marriage.
- Roger Thornhill: I've been married twice.
- Eve Kendall: See what I mean?”
Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint - Eve Kendall

“In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.”
Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill

“- Roger Thornhill: The moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her.
- Eve Kendall: What makes you think you have to conceal it?
- Roger Thornhill: She might find the idea objectionable.
- Eve Kendall: Then again, she might not.”
Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint - Eve Kendall

“- Roger Thornhill: My wives divorced me.
- Eve Kendall: Why?
- Roger Thornhill: They said I led too dull a life.”
Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint - Eve Kendall

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 - Roger Thornhill

“- Ticket Seller: Something wrong with your eyes?
- Roger Thornhill: Yes, they're sensitive to questions.”

Ned Glass - Ticket Seller
Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill

“- 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 sillysong is a sillyopinion.”
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