Fredric March movie quotes

“- Matthew Harrison Brady: Why is it, my old friend, that you've moved so far away from me?
- Henry Drummond: All motion is relative, Matt. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.”
Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“My argument in defense of make-up stems to 1932 when I won an Academy Award for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. At that time I too was a young leading man. I accepted the role because it afforded me the opportunity to do something besides smile and make love to lovely leading ladies.”
Fredric March

“Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young.”
Fredric March

“- Matthew Harrison Brady: I do not think about things I do not think about.
- Henry Drummond: Do you ever think about things that you do think about?”
Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“- Matthew Harrison Brady: We must not abandonfaith! Faith is the most important thing!
- Henry Drummond: Then why did God plague us with the capacity to think?”
Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“- Anna Karenina: I didn't know you were going back to St. Petersburg so soon. Why this change of plan?
- Count Vronsky: Why? To be where you are.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Fredric March - Count Vronsky

“- Dr. John Lanyon: You told me you became that monster tonight not of your own accord. It will happen again.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: It never will. I'm sure of it. I'll conquer it!
- Dr. John Lanyon: Too late. You cannot conquer it. It has conquered you!”

Holmes Herbert - Dr. John Lanyon
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“- Dr. John Lanyon: Perhaps you're forgetting, you're engaged to Muriel.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Forgotten it? Can a man dying of thirst forget water? And do you know what would happen to that thirst if it were to be denied water?”
Holmes Herbert - Dr. John Lanyon
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“One must never pardon an insult, but may freely give one.”
Fredric March - Count Vronsky

“I had a dream. I dreamt I was home. I've had that same dream hundreds of times before. This time, I wanted to find out if it's really true. Am I really home?”
Fredric March - Al Stephenson

“When I leave you, I'm lost in a world of strangers. When I touch your hand, we're alone.”

Fredric March - Count Vronsky

“- Count Vronsky: I want my comrades and my career! And love isn't everything.
- Anna Karenina: One only says that when love is over.”
Fredric March - Count Vronsky
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina

“You're going to have plenty of reasons to hate me. I'm going to show you cards and spades and lying for the next 50 years.”

Fredric March - Wally Cook

“Things one can't do, are the ones I want to.”
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“Isn't Hyde a lover after your own heart?”

Fredric March - Mr. Edward Hyde

“- Poole: You should go out, sir. London offers many amusements for a gentlemen like you, sir.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Yes, but gentlemen like me daren't take advantage of them, Poole. Gentlemen like me have to be very careful of what we do or say.”
Edgar Norton - Poole
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“- Count Vronsky: Our meetings are so brief, the dance also.
- Anna Karenina: But our reunions are so frequent.”
Fredric March - Count Vronsky
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina

“I'm going to do everything I can to keep her away from you, to help her forget about you, and get her married to some decent guy who can make her happy.”

Fredric March - Al Stephenson

“- Anna Karenina: I feel pain. I feel tears.
- Count Vronsky: Why?
- Anna Karenina: Because I'm so happy. Not to think, only to live, only to feel.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Fredric March - Count Vronsky

“Mere physical beauty isn't everything.”
Fredric March - Wallace Wooley

“Ladies and gentlemen, William Shakespeare, the greatest author in the English language is dead... and I feel far from well myself.”
Fredric March - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

“I found out what a mine is anyway. It's a hole in the ground with a darn fool at the end of it.”
Fredric March - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

“- Al Stephenson: So you're gonna break this marriage up. Have you decided yet how you're gonna do it? Are you gonna do it with an axe?
- Peggy Stephenson: It's none of your business how I'm gonna do it. You've forgotten what it's like to be in love.”

Fredric March - Al Stephenson
Teresa Wright - Peggy Stephenson

“- Milly Stephenson: You're crazy.
- Al Stephenson: No. Too sane for my own good.”
Myrna Loy - Milly Stephenson
Fredric March - Al Stephenson

“- Anna Karenina: We'll be punished.
- Count Vronsky: Punished?
- Anna Karenina: For being so happy.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Fredric March - Count Vronsky