Eve Kendall: What happened with your first two marriages?
Roger Thornhill: My wives divorced me.
Eve Kendall: Why?
Roger Thornhill: They said I led a dull life.


--Cary Grant (as Roger O. Thornhill) in North by Northwest

Phillip Vandamm: What possessed you to come blundering in here like this? Could it be an overpowering interest in art?
Roger Thornhill: Yes, the art of survival.


--Cary Grant (as Roger O. Thornhill) in North by Northwest

Interviewer: I'm sure you had some wonderful experiences in Europe.
Nickie Ferrante: Yes.
Interviewer: Would you care to expand on that statement?
Nickie Ferrante: No.


--Cary Grant (as Nickie Ferrante) in An Affair to Remember

Soldier: You're not Mrs. Rochard!
Capt. Henri Rochard: I'm *Mr.* Rochard.
Soldier: Well, it's your *wife* who must report here for transportation to Bremerhaven.
Capt. Henri Rochard: According to the War Department, I *am* my wife.
Soldier: You can't be your wife!
Capt. Henri Rochard: If the American army says I can be my wife, who am I to dispute them?


--Cary Grant (as Capt. Henri Rochard) in I Was a Male War Bride

[Elaine is impatient to leave on the honeymoon]
Elaine Harper: But, darling - Niagara Falls.
Mortimer Brewster: It does? Well, let it.


--Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace

[on the telephone]
Mortimer Brewster: Hello... Operator? Can you hear my voice? You can? Are you sure?
[hangs up]
Mortimer Brewster: Well, then I must be here.


--Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace

[to Jonathan]
Mortimer Brewster: Where did you get that face? Hollywood?


--Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace

David Huxley: I'll be with you in a minute Mr. Peabody!


--Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby

Angelo Donatello: Did you make up your mind about the boat? You wanna rent, do you wanna buy, you wanna make a deal?
Tom Winters: It's a leaky, broken down soggy derelict that'll probably sink and dump us all into the river --- but I wouldn't think of living any other place. Yeh, I'll make a deal.


--Cary Grant (as Tom Winters) in Houseboat

Joan Blandings: Miss Stellwagon says advertising is a basically parasitic profession.
Jim Blandings: You don't say?
Joan Blandings: Miss Stellwagon says advertising makes people who can't afford it, buy things they don't want, with money they haven't got.
Jim Blandings: Oh she does, does she? Well perhaps your Miss Stellwagon is right. Perhaps I should quit this basically parasitic profession, which at the very moment is paying for your fancy tuition and those extra French lessons and that progressive summer camp - to say nothing of the very braces on your back teeth.

--Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House