Tommy Albright:
Let me ask you something... suppose someone in Brigadoon got fed up and wanted to leave? What then?
Mr. Lundie: Och, he canna leave!
Jeff Douglas: You mean *I've* got to stay here now?
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
Mr. Lundie: Och, he canna leave!
Jeff Douglas: You mean *I've* got to stay here now?
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
Helen Ellswirth:
I've been having a bad day for a year now, maybe it's time to grow up.
Charles Wills: It's too late to grow up.
--Van Johnson (as ) in The Last Time I Saw Paris
Charles Wills: It's too late to grow up.
--Van Johnson (as ) in The Last Time I Saw Paris
Carson:
My usual fee is 5 thousand, but...
Tracy Malvoisie: I don't expect any favors from a cut-price Galahad!
Carson: You didn't let me finish, I was going to say for you 10 thousand.
--Van Johnson (as ) in Action of the Tiger
Tracy Malvoisie: I don't expect any favors from a cut-price Galahad!
Carson: You didn't let me finish, I was going to say for you 10 thousand.
--Van Johnson (as ) in Action of the Tiger
Henry Carson:
All those nights I was away from the farm, I dreamed of nothing but being up here. Place all fixed up and you waiting for me as I came up the trail. It's ours, Lissy. Nothing's gonna keep us from having it now.
--Van Johnson (as ) in The Romance of Rosy Ridge
--Van Johnson (as ) in The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Holley:
That the new platoon leader?
Pvt. Johnny Rodriguez: Yeah, fresh off the boat.
Pvt. Ernest J. "Pop" Stazak: I understand your problems, men. I was once an enlisted man, myself.
Holley: For six months, maybe. Then seventeen weeks at OCS and he's an officer and gentleman by special act of Congress.
--Van Johnson (as Holley) in Battleground
Pvt. Johnny Rodriguez: Yeah, fresh off the boat.
Pvt. Ernest J. "Pop" Stazak: I understand your problems, men. I was once an enlisted man, myself.
Holley: For six months, maybe. Then seventeen weeks at OCS and he's an officer and gentleman by special act of Congress.
--Van Johnson (as Holley) in Battleground
Jeff Douglas:
...There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiancee's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out.
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
Jeff Douglas:
Can you think of one good reason why I, a strange man, should be interested in proposing to you, a mighty strange woman and at this hour of the day?
Meg Brockie: Because you're a lad and I'm a lass!
Jeff Douglas: Well, with that philosophy you must have had a provocative career!
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
Meg Brockie: Because you're a lad and I'm a lass!
Jeff Douglas: Well, with that philosophy you must have had a provocative career!
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
Jeff Douglas:
If there's *anything* I hate... it's *you*!
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
Jeff Douglas:
If they want to disregard two hundred years of human bing-bang, that's their privilege.
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
Jeff Douglas:
Well, most of my friends who have inferiority complexes are absolutely right. They're *not* as good as everybody else!
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
--Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon
