James Stewart quotes
- From the movie: Harvey
- Dr. Sanderson: I think that your sister's condition stems from trauma.
- Elwood P. Dowd: From what?
- Dr. Sanderson: Uh, trauma. Spelled t-r-a-u-m-a. It means shock. There's nothing unusual about it. There's the "birth trauma" - the shock of being born...
- Elwood P. Dowd: That's the one we never get over. - From the movie: Harvey
“- Elwood P. Dowd: You see, science has overcome time and space. Well, Harvey has overcome not only time and space, but any objections.
- Dr. Chumley: Fly specks, fly specks! I've been spending my life among fly specks while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 18th and Fairfax!” - From the movie: Harvey
“I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I'm with.”
- From the movie: Harvey
“- Wilson: Who's Harvey?
- Miss Kelly: A white rabbit, six feet tall.
- Wilson: Six feet?
- Elwood P. Dowd: Six feet three and a half inches. Now let's stick to the facts.” - From the movie: Harvey
“Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.”
- From the movie: After the Thin Man
“I've got six bullets in this gun. One for her, one for myself. One for myself, and the rest for anyone who tries to stop me.”
- From the movie: The Shop Around the Corner
“There might be a lot we don't know about each other. You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”
- From the movie: The Philadelphia Story
“- Macaulay Connor: It can't be anything like love, can it?
- Tracy Lord: No, no, it can't be.
- Macaulay Connor: Would it be inconvenient?
- Tracy Lord: Terribly.” - La trovi in History of Cinema in Quotes
“There are down-beat, dirty pictures. They deal with futility and hopelessness. The hell with them. I'm not going to make them. ”
- From the movie: Mr. Smith goes to Washington
- From the movie: The Philadelphia Story
“The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.”
- From the movie: Mr. Smith goes to Washington
“Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.”
- From the movie: After the Thin Man
“- Nick Charles: Who's Dr. Kammer?
- David Graham: Oh, I don't know? He's some nut psychologist. He sits around and talks about her dreams by the hour. I get the creeps every time I look at him.” - From the movie: Mr. Krueger's Christmas
“I got mad with Mabel Huntington because she broke her pipes on purpose just so she could have somebody to see while I came up and fixed them for her. Boy, I hollered at her, boy I hollered real loud. But then, then I got to thinking - you loved Mabel just as much as you loved me and I should treat her the way you want me to. I believe I talked...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: The Philadelphia Story
- From the movie: It's a Wonderful Life
- From the movie: Destry Rides Again
- From the movie: The Philadelphia Story
“Are you still in love with her? Or perhaps you consider that to be a very personal question. Liz thinks you are. All though of course women like to romanticize things a bit.”
- From the movie: It's a Wonderful Life
“- Mary Hatch: What do you want?
- George Bailey: Me? Nothing! I just came in to get warm.
- Mary Hatch: He's making violent love to me, mother!” - From the movie: It's a Wonderful Life
“- George Bailey: How old are you anyway?
- Mary Hatch: 18.
- George Bailey: 18! Why it was only last year you were 17?” - From the movie: Mr. Smith goes to Washington
“Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery; you'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Mr. Smith goes to Washington
“Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.”
- From the movie: Destry Rides Again
- From the movie: The Shop Around the Corner
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