Cary Grant movie quotes

“- 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

“Insanity runs in my family... it practically gallops.”
Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster

“You think a great offense is a great defense. Don't try to justify your behavior by insinuating things about me.”

Cary Grant - Jerry Warriner

“- Susan Vance: Is there anything in the world that doesn't belong to you?
- David Huxley: Yes, thank heaven, you!”
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”
Cary Grant

“- Hildy Johnson: You are no longer my husband and no longer my boss. And you're not going to be my boss.
- Walter Burns: All right, take it. Work for somebody else. That's the gratitude I get.”
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Susan Vance: Now please listen to me - you certainly can't think that I did that intentionally!
- David Huxley: Well, if I could think, I'd have run when I saw you!”
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“I improve on misquotation.”
Cary Grant

“- Susan Vance: You mean you want me to go home?
- David Huxley: Yes.
- Susan Vance: You mean you don't want me to help you any more?
- David Huxley: No.
- Susan Vance: After all the fun we've had?
- David Huxley: Yes.
- Susan Vance: And after all the things I've done for you?
- David Huxley: That's what I mean.”
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“- Susan Vance: You've just had a bad day, that's all.
- David Huxley: That's a masterpiece of understatement.”
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“- Susan Vance: Well, don't you worry, David, because if there's anything that I can do to help you, just let me know and I'll do it.
- David Huxley: Well, er - don't do it until I let you know.”
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“For what it's worth, I never stole from anybody who would go hungry.”
Cary Grant - John Robie

“- Frances Stevens: John, why bother?
- John Robie: It's sort of a hobby of mine - the truth.”
Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens
Cary Grant - John Robie

“- John Robie: Why don't you own a place like this?
- Frances Stevens: Palaces are for royalty. We're just common people with a bank account.”

Cary Grant - John Robie
Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens

“- H. H. Hughson: You are a man of obvious good taste in everything. Why did you...
- John Robie: Why did I take up stealing? To live better, to own things I couldn't afford, to acquire this good taste that you now enjoy and which I should be very reluctant to give up.”
John Williams - H. H. Hughson
Cary Grant - John Robie

“- Jack Clayton: You were wonderful tonight.
- Tira: Yeah, I'm always wonderful at night.”
Cary Grant - Jack Clayton
Mae West - Tira

“They say money talks... all it's ever said to me is goodbye.”
Cary Grant - Ernie Mott

“I would that I had been worthy to kiss the hem of her garment. Never during our marital bliss did she cause me one moment's uneasiness.”

Cary Grant - Jerry Warriner

“I was jealous. I was sore because he could offer you the kind of life I can't give you.”

Cary Grant - Walter Burns