Fredric March movie quotes

“Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young.”
Fredric March

“- Matthew Harrison Brady: Why is it, my old friend, that you've moved so far away from me?
- Henry Drummond: All motion is relative, Matt. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.”
Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“My argument in defense of make-up stems to 1932 when I won an Academy Award for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. At that time I too was a young leading man. I accepted the role because it afforded me the opportunity to do something besides smile and make love to lovely leading ladies.”
Fredric March

“- Matthew Harrison Brady: I do not think about things I do not think about.
- Henry Drummond: Do you ever think about things that you do think about?”
Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“- Matthew Harrison Brady: We must not abandon faith! Faith is the most important thing!
- Henry Drummond: Then why did God plague us with the capacity to think?”
Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“- Anna Karenina: I didn't know you were going back to St. Petersburg so soon. Why this change of plan?
- Count Vronsky: Why? To be where you are.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Fredric March - Count Vronsky

“- Dr. John Lanyon: You told me you became that monster tonight not of your own accord. It will happen again.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: It never will. I'm sure of it. I'll conquer it!
- Dr. John Lanyon: Too late. You cannot conquer it. It has conquered you!”

Holmes Herbert - Dr. John Lanyon
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“- Dr. John Lanyon: Perhaps you're forgetting, you're engaged to Muriel.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Forgotten it? Can a man dying of thirst forget water? And do you know what would happen to that thirst if it were to be denied water?”
Holmes Herbert - Dr. John Lanyon
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“One must never pardon an insult, but may freely give one.”
Fredric March - Count Vronsky

“I had a dream. I dreamt I was home. I've had that same dream hundreds of times before. This time, I wanted to find out if it's really true. Am I really home?”
Fredric March - Al Stephenson

“When I leave you, I'm lost in a world of strangers. When I touch your hand, we're alone.”

Fredric March - Count Vronsky

“- Count Vronsky: I want my comrades and my career! And love isn't everything.
- Anna Karenina: One only says that when love is over.”
Fredric March - Count Vronsky
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina

“You're going to have plenty of reasons to hate me. I'm going to show you cards and spades and lying for the next 50 years.”

Fredric March - Wally Cook

“Things one can't do, are the ones I want to.”
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“Isn't Hyde a lover after your own heart?”

Fredric March - Mr. Edward Hyde

“- Poole: You should go out, sir. London offers many amusements for a gentlemen like you, sir.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Yes, but gentlemen like me daren't take advantage of them, Poole. Gentlemen like me have to be very careful of what we do or say.”
Edgar Norton - Poole
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“- Count Vronsky: Our meetings are so brief, the dance also.
- Anna Karenina: But our reunions are so frequent.”
Fredric March - Count Vronsky
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina

“I'm going to do everything I can to keep her away from you, to help her forget about you, and get her married to some decent guy who can make her happy.”

Fredric March - Al Stephenson

“- Anna Karenina: I feel pain. I feel tears.
- Count Vronsky: Why?
- Anna Karenina: Because I'm so happy. Not to think, only to live, only to feel.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Fredric March - Count Vronsky

“Mere physical beauty isn't everything.”
Fredric March - Wallace Wooley

“Ladies and gentlemen, William Shakespeare, the greatest author in the English language is dead... and I feel far from well myself.”
Fredric March - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

“I found out what a mine is anyway. It's a hole in the ground with a darn fool at the end of it.”
Fredric March - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

“- Al Stephenson: So you're gonna break this marriage up. Have you decided yet how you're gonna do it? Are you gonna do it with an axe?
- Peggy Stephenson: It's none of your business how I'm gonna do it. You've forgotten what it's like to be in love.”

Fredric March - Al Stephenson
Teresa Wright - Peggy Stephenson

“- Milly Stephenson: You're crazy.
- Al Stephenson: No. Too sane for my own good.”
Myrna Loy - Milly Stephenson
Fredric March - Al Stephenson

“- Anna Karenina: We'll be punished.
- Count Vronsky: Punished?
- Anna Karenina: For being so happy.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Fredric March - Count Vronsky