Cary Grant movie quotes

“- Walter Burns: You persuade Hildy to do the story and you can write out a nice fat insurance policy for me.
- Bruce Baldwin: I refuse to use my wife for business purposes.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Ralph Bellamy - Bruce Baldwin

“Now you're all under arrest. Her Majesty's very touchy about having her subjects strangled.”
Cary Grant - Cutter

“- Frances Stevens: I'm in love with you.
- John Robie: Now that's a ridiculous thing to say.”
Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens
Cary Grant - John Robie

“- Mortimer Brewster: Wait outside.
- Dr. Gilchrist: But it's Halloween!
- Mortimer Brewster: Don't worry about Halloween. The pixies won't be out till after midnight”
Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster
Chester Clute - Dr. Gilchrist

“I made a great reporter out of you, Hildy. But you won't be half as good on any other paper and you know it. We're a team. That's what we are. You need me and I need you, and the paper needs both of us.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Frances Stevens: Money handles most people.
- John Robie: Do you honestly believe that?
- Frances Stevens: I've proved it.”
Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens
Cary Grant - John Robie

“When you walk out that door, part of me will go right with you. But a whole new world's gonna open up for you.”

Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“How can we get a nice little war going?”
Cary Grant - Cutter

“I think I'm falling in love with you, and I don't quite like it.”

Cary Grant - Johnnie Aysgarth

“- Daniel Leeson: Glad to know you.
- Jerry Warriner: How can you be glad to know me? I know how I'd feel if I was sitting with a girl and her husband walked in.”
Ralph Bellamy - Daniel Leeson
Cary Grant - Jerry Warriner

“I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. One time I secretly wanted to be a writer.”
Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven

“- Dr. Fritz Lehman: She's going to give me an explanation...
- David Huxley: No no no and my dear sir, it never will be clear, as long as she's explaining it!”

Fritz Feld - Dr. Fritz Lehman
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“- Frances Stevens: I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's stimulating. It's like... It's like...
- John Robie: Like sitting in a hot tub?”
Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens
Cary Grant - John Robie

“- C.K. Dexter Haven: The moon is also a goddess, chaste and virginal.
- Tracy Lord: Stop using those foul words.”
Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven
Katharine Hepburn - Tracy Lord

- Bertani: There will be many women, rich jewels.
- John Robie: Just the bait I need.
- Bertani: Something "The Cat" can't resist, huh?
Charles Vanel - Bertani
Cary Grant - John Robie

“- Nick Arden: The moment I saw you I knew...
- Ellen Wagstaff Arden: I bet you say that to all your wives.”
Cary Grant - Nick Arden
Irene Dunne - Ellen Wagstaff Arden

“- John Robie: You know what I think?
- Frances Stevens: About what?
- John Robie: You.
- Frances Stevens: I don't really care.”
Cary Grant - John Robie
Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens

“You wouldn't want to have children with three heads, would you? I mean, you wouldn't want to set up housekeeping in a padded cell. Oh, it would be bad.”

Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster

“- John Robie: Say something nice to her, Danielle.
- Danielle Foussard: She looks a lot older up close.”
Cary Grant - John Robie
Brigitte Auber - Daniele Foussard

“- Jack Clayton: Tonight, you were especially good.
- Tira: Well, when I'm good, I'm very good. But, when I'm bad... I'm better!”
Cary Grant - Jack Clayton
Mae West - Tira

“- H. H. Hughson: Then you are frankly dishonest.
- John Robie: I try to be.”
John Williams - H. H. Hughson
Cary Grant - John Robie

“- H. H. Hughson: The pastries are light as air.
- John Robie: Germaine has very sensitive hands and an exceedingly light touch. She strangled a German general - without a sound.”
John Williams - H. H. Hughson
Cary Grant - John Robie

“- Johnnie Aysgarth: Don't do that.
- Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: Why not?
- Johnnie Aysgarth: Because your ucipital mapilary is quite beautiful.”

Cary Grant - Johnnie Aysgarth
Joan Fontaine - Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth

“She finds human imperfection unforgiveable. And when I gradually discovered that my relationship to her was supposed to be not that of a loving husband and a good companion, but... but that of a kind of high priest to a virgin goddess, then my drinks grew deeper and more frequent.”

Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven

“- Lady Lou: Those absolutely necessary? You know I wasn't born with them.
- Captain Cummings: No. A lot of men would've been safer if you had.
- Lady Lou: Oh, I don't know hands ain't everything.”

Mae West - Lady Lou
Cary Grant - Captain Cummings