Roger Thornhill: And what the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here?
Phillip Vandamm: Games? Must we?
Roger Thornhill: Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets for the theater this evening, to a show I was looking forward to and I get, well, kind of *unreasonable* about things like that.
Phillip Vandamm: With such expert playacting, you make this very room a theater.


--James Mason (as Phillip Vandamm) in North by Northwest

Roger Thornhill: Apparently the only performance that will satisfy you is when I play dead.
Phillip Vandamm: Your very next role, and you'll be quite convincing, I assure you.


--James Mason (as Phillip Vandamm) in North by Northwest

Phillip Vandamm: Has anyone ever told you that you overplay your various roles rather severely, Mr. Kaplan?


--James Mason (as Phillip Vandamm) in North by Northwest

Phillip Vandamm: Seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the F.B.I. and a little more from the Actor's Studio.


--James Mason (as Phillip Vandamm) in North by Northwest

Phillip Vandamm: That wasn't very sporting, using real bullets.


--James Mason (as Phillip Vandamm) in North by Northwest