Dr. Dolittle:
If one place is as good as any other, it's high time we decided. Otherwise when we get there, we won't know we've arrived.
--Rex Harrison (as Dr. John Dolittle) in Doctor Dolittle
--Rex Harrison (as Dr. John Dolittle) in Doctor Dolittle
Dr. Dolittle:
Tell me, Stubbins... what would you do if you had two heads?
Tommy Stubbins: I'd join a circus, sir!
Dr. Dolittle: Exactly.
--Rex Harrison (as Dr. John Dolittle) in Doctor Dolittle
Tommy Stubbins: I'd join a circus, sir!
Dr. Dolittle: Exactly.
--Rex Harrison (as Dr. John Dolittle) in Doctor Dolittle
Julius Caesar:
[after the execution of Pothinus] Return Apollodorus's dagger to him, but clean it first. It has Pothinus all over it.
--Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra
--Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra
Julius Caesar:
[speaking of the Grand Eunuch] ... a position not acquired without some, shall we say, sacrifices?
--Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra
--Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra
Julius Caesar:
I do not understand why the eyes of a statue should always lack light.
--Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra
--Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra
Julius Caesar:
Two hours until dawn. We will hold where we are.
Agrippa: And what happens at dawn?
Julius Caesar: I thought you knew. The sun comes up.
--Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra
Agrippa: And what happens at dawn?
Julius Caesar: I thought you knew. The sun comes up.
--Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra
Pope Julius II:
What do you think we should do here? Bramante wants to pull it down. He likes pulling things down! No, I want to do something less destructive.
--Rex Harrison (as Pope Julius II) in The Agony and the Ecstasy
--Rex Harrison (as Pope Julius II) in The Agony and the Ecstasy
Pope Julius II:
You dare to dicker with your pontiff?
--Rex Harrison (as Pope Julius II) in The Agony and the Ecstasy
--Rex Harrison (as Pope Julius II) in The Agony and the Ecstasy
Professor Henry Higgins:
[singing] Women are irrational, that's all there is to that! Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags. They're nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags!
--Rex Harrison (as Professor Henry Higgins) in My Fair Lady
--Rex Harrison (as Professor Henry Higgins) in My Fair Lady
Professor Henry Higgins:
*You* won my bet? You presumptuous insect, *I* won it.
--Rex Harrison (as Professor Henry Higgins) in My Fair Lady
--Rex Harrison (as Professor Henry Higgins) in My Fair Lady