Cary Grant movie quotes

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

“- 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

“- 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

“- 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

“To hardly know him is to know him well. And perhaps it offends my vanity to have anyone who is even remotely my wife re-marry so obviously beneath her.”

Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven

“You'll never be a first class human being or a first class woman until you've learned to have some regard for human frailty.”
Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven

“- John Robie: You're here in Europe to buy a husband.
- Frances Stevens: The man I want doesn't have a price.
- John Robie: That eliminates me.”
Cary Grant - John Robie
Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens

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

“- Jack Clayton: Oh I'm crazy about you.
- Tira: I did my best to make you that way.”
Cary Grant - Jack Clayton
Mae West - Tira

“- Reggie Lampert: The man and woman are married.
- Peter Joshua: I can see that. They're batting each other over the head.”

Audrey Hepburn - Regina Lampert
Cary Grant - Peter Joshua

“- Peter Joshua: All right, get set for the story of my life.
- Reggie Lampert: Fiction or non-fiction?”
Cary Grant - Peter Joshua
Audrey Hepburn - Regina Lampert

“- Reggie Lampert: You're blocking my view.
- Peter Joshua: Ohh... which view would you prefer?
- Reggie Lampert: The one you're blocking.”
Audrey Hepburn - Regina Lampert
Cary Grant - Peter Joshua

“- Peter Joshua: Do we know each other?
- Reggie Lampert: Why, do you think we're going to?
- Peter Joshua: How would I know?
- Reggie Lampert: Because I already know an awful lot of people, so until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else.
- Peter Joshua: Well, if anyone goes on the critical list, let me know.”
Cary Grant - Peter Joshua
Audrey Hepburn - Regina Lampert

“- 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

“- 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

“- 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

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

“- 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