Cedrick Webster Hardwicke movie quotes

“- Sethi: Rameses, do you believe this slave deliverer is a myth?
- Rameses: What I believe is of no account. What matters is the slaves believe in him.
- Sethi: Of course, of course. Then you, too, shall go to Goshen. Learn if this deliverer be a myth or a man. If a myth, bring him to me in a bottle. If a man, bring him to me in chains.
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Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Sethi
Yul Brynner - Rameses

“- Sir Francis Gromarty: One thousand pounds for an elephant? It's outrageous! You've been diddled.
- Phileas Fogg: Undoubtedly. But it's not often one needs an elephant in a hurry.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Sir Francis Cromarty - Bombay to Calcutta Train
David Niven - Phileas Fogg

“Unknowingly I gave it a criminal brain. With your knowledge of science, you can cure that.”

Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Ghost of Henry Frankenstein

“Ordeal by comment card, known otherwise as death by a thousand cuts.”

Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“On Hollywood's theory that the audience knows best, the schoolboy's 'lousy' is the last word in dramatic criticism.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“I suffer from what used to be called Sir tax. A knighthood inflates the cost of living beyond belief.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“I believe that God felt sorry for actors, so He created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“- Ygor: You cannot take my friend away from me. He's all that I have. Nothing else. You're going to make him your friend and I'll be alone.
- Ludwig Frankenstein: It will be as I say or he must be destroyed.”

Béla Lugosi - Ygor
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“- Chief Constable: He seems to recognize you, Doctor.
- Ludwig Frankenstein: I never saw this... man before in my life. I know nothing about him.”

Leyland Hodgson - Chief Constable
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene. ”
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“- Ghost of Henry Frankenstein: Nevertheless, I was near to solving a problem that has baffled man since the beginning of time, the secret of life artificially created.
- Ludwig Frankenstein: But it has brought death to everything that it's touched.”

Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Ghost of Henry Frankenstein
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“- Ghost of Henry Frankenstein: Would you destroy that which I, your father, dedicated his life to creating?
- Ludwig Frankenstein: I must. The monster you created is in itself destruction.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Ghost of Henry Frankenstein
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“The press should be destroyed and the printer hanged for blasphemy.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Frollo

“- Ygor: You're going to help him Doctor? You are giving him life?
- Ludwig Frankenstein: Yes but not for the purposes that you think Ygor. I'm giving him strength so that an operation may be successful.
- Ygor: An operation?
- Ludwig Frankenstein: Yes. I'm giving him another brain.”
Béla Lugosi - Ygor
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“Being an intelligence officer destroys all faith in human nature.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Admiral Bowen

“I have replaced an evil brain with a good one. I have made amends for the great tragedies my father and my brother unintentionally brought to this community. I have restored the good name of Frankenstein.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“Ever since the day my father put life into that creature, it has been a curse. The terrible consequences of his creation killed my father, drove my brother into exile. The monster shall not ruin my life. I'm happy here. I have a lovely daughter, friends. They know nothing of all this.”

Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“Good actors are good because of the things they can tell us without talking. When they are talking, they are the servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“- Ygor: You can make us one. We'll be together always. My brain and his body. Together.
- Ludwig Frankenstein: You're a cunning fellow Ygor. Do you think I would put your sly and sinister brain into the body of a giant? That would be a monster indeed. You will do as I tell you or I will not be responsible for the consequences.”

Béla Lugosi - Ygor
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“- Ygor: Whose brain?
- Ludwig Frankenstein: Kettering. A man of character and learning. The monster will cease to be an evil influence and become everything that is good.”

Béla Lugosi - Ygor
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“- Nefretiri: Are you afraid of Moses?
- Rameses: Yes, because now he holds Ethiopia in his left hand, Goshen in right, and you, my Pharaoh, are in-between them.
- Sethi: Do you imply that he would raise the slaves against me? I've been his father.
- Jannes: Ambition knows no father.”
Anne Baxter - Nefretiri
Yul Brynner - Rameses
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Sethi
Douglass Dumbrille - Jannes

“- Ludwig Frankenstein: Your dream of power is over, Bohmer. You didn't realize his blood is the same type as Kettering's, but not the same as Ygor's. It will not feed the sensory nerves.
- The Monster: Bohmer! You played me a trick! What good is a brain without eyes to see? What good is a brain without eyes?”

Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Ludwig Frankenstein
Lon Chaney Jr. - The Monster

“Harden yourself against subordinates. Have no friend. Trust no woman.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Sethi