Cary Grant movie quotes

“Take good care of her. Maybe you'll succeed where I failed.”

Cary Grant - Jerry Warriner

“- John Robie: Danielle, you are just a girl. She is a woman.
- Danielle Foussard: Why buy an old car if you can get a new one cheaper? It will run better and last longer.”
Cary Grant - John Robie
Brigitte Auber - Daniele Foussard

“- Hildy Johnson: He treats me like a woman.
- Walter Burns: Oh he does, doesn't he? How did I treat you? Like a water buffalo?”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“I improve on misquotation.”
Cary Grant

“I think making love is the best form of exercise.”
Cary Grant

“The first time I saw her... she looked so little and helpless. I didn't know babies were so, so little. And then she took a-hold of my finger and I held onto it. She just sort of walked into my heart, Judge.”

Cary Grant - Roger Adams

“- Lucy Warriner: Don't you see that there can't be any doubt in marriage? The whole thing's built on faith. If you've lost that, well, you've lost everything.
- Jerry Warriner: Then I guess we're washed up because we've lost faith in each other.”
Irene Dunne - Lucy Warriner
Cary Grant - Jerry Warriner

“- Johnnie Aysgarth: He doesn't like me.
- Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: I know.
- Johnnie Aysgarth: He doesn't trust me from here to there.”

Cary Grant - Johnnie Aysgarth
Joan Fontaine - Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth

“- Marion Kerby: George, look. You know something George? I think we're dead.
- George Kerby: I think you're right. Funny... I don't feel any difference.”

Constance Bennett - Marion Kerby
Cary Grant - George Kerby

“Perhaps our marriage doesn't mean anything to you? Perhaps you have no sentiment left for me.”

Cary Grant - Jerry Warriner

“You can't have a happy married life if you're always suspicious. No. There can't be any doubts in marriage. Marriage is based on faith and if you've lost that, you've lost everything.”

Cary Grant - Jerry Warriner

“It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments.”
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“- Photographer: I wonder if I could have just a little bit more of your smile?
- Johnnie Aysgarth: Oh not at this hour of the morning.”
Clyde Cook - Photographer
Cary Grant - Johnnie Aysgarth

“- John Robie: You know as well as I do: this necklace is imitation.
- Frances Stevens: Well, I'm not.”
Cary Grant - John Robie
Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens

“Our divorce was one of those tragedies that you read about in the papers - a trusting woman and a worthless man. I was never good enough for Lucy, and well, finally she found it out.”
Cary Grant - Jerry Warriner

“I admit I wasn't much of a husband, but you can always count on me, Hildy.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Ernie Mott: Did you love my old man?
- Ma Mott: Love's not for the poor, son. No time for it.”
Cary Grant - Ernie Mott
Ethel Barrymore - Ma Mott

“- H. H. Hughson: How many did you kill?
- John Robie: 72. But I know something that'll please you: none of them were insured.”
John Williams - H. H. Hughson
Cary Grant - John Robie

“I'm so broke I'm in two halves.”
Cary Grant - Ernie Mott

“What is the law? It's a gun pointed at somebody's head. All depends upon which end of the gun you stand, whether the law is just or not.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“- David Huxley: My dear young lady, I'm not losing my temper. I'm merely trying to play some golf!
- Susan Vance: Well you choose the funniest places, this is a parking lot.”
Cary Grant - David Huxley
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance

“- Frances Stevens: What do you say?
- John Robie: My only comment would be highly censorable.”
Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens
Cary Grant - John Robie

-Walter Burns: You're a newspaperman.
- Hildy Johnson: That's why I'm quitting. I want to go someplace where I can be a woman.
- Walter Burns: You mean "be a traitor".

Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“- Walter Burns: You've got the brain of a pancake. This isn't just a story you're covering - it's a revolution. This is the greatest yarn in journalism since Livingstone discovered Stanley.
- Hildy Johnson: It's the other way around.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“Certainly there are thirteen bodies in the cellar and there are hundreds more in the attic!”
Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster