Brice Chamberlain:
Why do women insist on loving men for what they want them to be instead of what they are?
--Melvyn Douglas (as Brice Chamberlain) in The Sea of Grass
--Melvyn Douglas (as Brice Chamberlain) in The Sea of Grass
Charles Stanton:
You're not going to throw me out of the house. I'll go out in the ordinary way, thank you.
--Melvyn Douglas (as ) in Dangerous Corner
--Melvyn Douglas (as ) in Dangerous Corner
Henry Linden:
[Sarcastically] Hannah, why don't you have all your teeth pulled out? It sometimes helps.
--Melvyn Douglas (as ) in The Shining Hour
--Melvyn Douglas (as ) in The Shining Hour
Homer Bannon:
Hud, how'd a man like you come to be a son to me?
--Melvyn Douglas (as Homer Bannon) in Hud
--Melvyn Douglas (as Homer Bannon) in Hud
Homer Bannon:
It don't take long to kill things, not like it takes to grow.
--Melvyn Douglas (as Homer Bannon) in Hud
--Melvyn Douglas (as Homer Bannon) in Hud
Homer Bannon:
Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You're just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what's right and wrong.
--Melvyn Douglas (as Homer Bannon) in Hud
--Melvyn Douglas (as Homer Bannon) in Hud
Homer Bannon:
You don't care about people Hud. You don't give a damn about 'em. Oh, you got all that charm goin' for ya. And it makes the youngsters want to be like ya. That's the shame of it because you don't value anything. You don't respect nothing. You keep no check on your appetites at all. You live just for yourself. And that makes you not fit to live with.
--Melvyn Douglas (as Homer Bannon) in Hud
--Melvyn Douglas (as Homer Bannon) in Hud
Karl Brettschneider:
Goodnight, gentlemen. Don't let the vampires get you.
--Melvyn Douglas (as ) in The Vampire Bat
--Melvyn Douglas (as ) in The Vampire Bat
Leon:
A radio's a little box that you buy on the installment plan, and before you tune it in, they tell you there's a new model out.
--Melvyn Douglas (as Leon) in Ninotchka
--Melvyn Douglas (as Leon) in Ninotchka
Leon:
A Russian! I love Russians! Comrade, I've been fascinated by your five-year plan for the last fifteen years.
--Melvyn Douglas (as Leon) in Ninotchka
--Melvyn Douglas (as Leon) in Ninotchka
