Claude Rains movie quotes

“We'll begin with a reign of terror, a few murders here and there, murders of great men, murders of little men - well, just to show we make no distinction.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“I'm going to miss you. Apparently you're the only one in Casablanca with less scruples than I.”

Claude Rains - Captain Louis Renault

“All astronomers are amateurs. When it comes to the heavens, there's only one professional.”
Claude Rains - Sir John Talbot

“If we've been telling lies, you've been telling half-lies. A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.”
Claude Rains - Mr. Dryden

“An old friend is never an extra guest.”
Claude Rains - Alexander Sebastian

“- Alexander Sebastian: I'm not afraid to die.
- Devlin: You've got your chance, here and now.”
Claude Rains - Alexander Sebastian
Cary Grant - Devlin

“You overestimate the influence of the Gestapo. I don't interfere with them and they don't interfere with me. In Casablanca I am master of my fate!”

Claude Rains - Captain Louis Renault

“In the 13th Century, man was happier and more comfortable in his world than he is now. I'm speaking of psychic man and his relationship with his whole universe.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower

“I find one should never look for admirers while at the same time one is falling to bits.”
Claude Rains - Job Skeffington

“He still fights. The bombs they're dropping tonight are editorials the Germans will understand.”
Claude Rains - Capt. Freycinet

“In this modern complicated world, man breaks down under the strain, the bewilderment, disappointment, and disillusionment. He gets lost, goes crazy, commits suicide.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower

“Look at your lake, Christine. You'll love it here when you get used to the dark. And you'll love the dark, too. It's friendly and peaceful. It brings rest and relief from pain.”

Claude Rains - Erique Claudin

“- Dr. Jaquith: I thought you came up here to have a nervous breakdown.
- Charlotte Vale: I've decided not to have one, if it's all the same to you.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith
Bette Davis - Charlotte Vale

“Any fool can ride to glory on a helpless Negro janitor. I'm out for bigger game.”
Claude Rains - Andy Griffin

“I'll tell you my approach to medicine! It is a game in which man pits his brains against the forces of destruction and disease.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower

“- Flora Cranley: I want to help you.
- Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man: There is nothing left for you to do, my dear, except to go. I shall come back. I swear, I shall come back because I shall defeat them.”
Gloria Stuart - Flora Cranley
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“I began five years ago, in secret. Working all night, every night, right into the dawn. A thousand experiments. A thousand failures. And then, at last, the great, wonderful day.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“- Dr. Jaquith: If you had deliberately and maliciously planned to destroy your daughter's life, you couldn't have done it more completely.
- Mrs. Henry Vale: How? By having exercised a mother's rights?
- Dr. Jaquith: A child has rights, a person has rights, to discover her own mistakes, to make her own way, to grow and blossom in her own...” (continue)(continue reading)
Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith
Gladys Cooper - Mrs. Henry Vale

“I came here for quiet and secrecy. I'm carrying out a difficult experiment. I must be left alone. It's vital! It's life and death that I should be left alone. You don't understand.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“You policemen are always in such a hurry. As if dead men didn't have all eternity.”

Claude Rains - Sir John Talbot

“Power to walk into the gold vaults of the nations, into the secrets of kings, into the Holy of Holies; power to make multitudes run squealing in terror at the touch of my little invisible finger.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“Such insolence must support a healthy appetite!”
Claude Rains - Prince John

“- Charlotte Vale: How does it feel to be the Lord?
- Dr. Jaquith: Not so very wonderful, since the Free Will Bill was passed. Too little power.”
Bette Davis - Charlotte Vale
Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith

“Even the moon's frightened of me, frightened to death! The whole world's frightened to death!”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret. He can rob, and rape, and kill!”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man