Otto Heidemann:
Yes, I understand - but I don't agree with killing helpless men!
General Count von Klugermann: Otto, this is 1918 - things have changed. Unrestricted submarine warfare, bombing of civilians, poison gas. Ask your wife - she's a nurse. Ask Elfi about the mustard gas casualties.
Otto Heidemann: So you approve of this kind of ruthlessness!
General Count von Klugermann: We fight to win, Otto.
--James Mason (as ) in The Blue Max
General Count von Klugermann: Otto, this is 1918 - things have changed. Unrestricted submarine warfare, bombing of civilians, poison gas. Ask your wife - she's a nurse. Ask Elfi about the mustard gas casualties.
Otto Heidemann: So you approve of this kind of ruthlessness!
General Count von Klugermann: We fight to win, Otto.
--James Mason (as ) in The Blue Max
Ann Dobbs:
[shouting] How can you be so aggressive about your job and so gentle about me?
[Sobs]
Charles Dobbs: I've always thought that... being aggressive was the way to... keep my job and being gentle was the way to keep you,
[after a reflective pause]
Charles Dobbs: Well, I've lost my job, haven't I?
--James Mason (as ) in The Deadly Affair
[Sobs]
Charles Dobbs: I've always thought that... being aggressive was the way to... keep my job and being gentle was the way to keep you,
[after a reflective pause]
Charles Dobbs: Well, I've lost my job, haven't I?
--James Mason (as ) in The Deadly Affair
Conseil:
Cannibals! Hundreds of cannibals! Captain, Captain, scores of boats!
Ned Land: Captain, we're under attack!
Captain Nemo: Naturally, since you invaded their privacy, they have every right to invade ours.
--James Mason (as Captain Nemo) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Ned Land: Captain, we're under attack!
Captain Nemo: Naturally, since you invaded their privacy, they have every right to invade ours.
--James Mason (as Captain Nemo) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Bill Appleby:
Are you suggesting that Elsa might have connived in her husband's murder? That's rather a ghoulish thought, Charley.
Charles Dobbs: She's had a rather ghoulish life.
--James Mason (as ) in The Deadly Affair
Charles Dobbs: She's had a rather ghoulish life.
--James Mason (as ) in The Deadly Affair
Judge George J. Barnes:
Were you Norman Maine the actor?
Norman Maine: Yes.
--James Mason (as Norman Maine) in A Star is Born
Norman Maine: Yes.
--James Mason (as Norman Maine) in A Star is Born
Henry Scott:
You're no match for me without that knife.
Capt. Edwin Rummill: I'm not going to throw it away to find out.
--James Mason (as Capt. Edwin Rummill) in The Decks Ran Red
Capt. Edwin Rummill: I'm not going to throw it away to find out.
--James Mason (as Capt. Edwin Rummill) in The Decks Ran Red
Rudolf Rassendyll:
But surely, no woman in her right senses would prefer the duke to you.
Rupert of Hentzau: Women are never in their right senses, thank goodness!
--James Mason (as Rupert of Hentzau) in The Prisoner of Zenda
Rupert of Hentzau: Women are never in their right senses, thank goodness!
--James Mason (as Rupert of Hentzau) in The Prisoner of Zenda
Ted:
Your wife is at peace, Mr. James. A quick and merciful death. I don't suppose she ever knew what hit her.
James Leamington: Something hit her?
--James Mason (as James Leamington) in Georgy Girl
James Leamington: Something hit her?
--James Mason (as James Leamington) in Georgy Girl
Carla Göteborg:
Sir Oliver, you are not going to listen to a murderer?
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Never interrupt a murderer, madam.
--James Mason (as Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook) in Journey to the Center of the Earth
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Never interrupt a murderer, madam.
--James Mason (as Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook) in Journey to the Center of the Earth
Carla Göteborg:
Someone is walking up there. I heard footsteps, human footsteps.
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Since the beginning of time all women have heard footsteps up there.
--James Mason (as Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook) in Journey to the Center of the Earth
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Since the beginning of time all women have heard footsteps up there.
--James Mason (as Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook) in Journey to the Center of the Earth
