Cary Grant
(as Dr. David Huxley)
Susan Vance: He said that David was an old, old friend of his, that he'd been working very, very hard in town and that he was on the point of having a nervous breakdown.
David Huxley: Oh, and I'm a nut from Brazil!
David Huxley: Oh, and I'm a nut from Brazil!
From Bringing up Baby
Dana Andrews
(as Fred Derry)
Fred Derry: You know what it'll be, don't you, Peggy? It may take us years to get anywhere. We'll have no money, no decent place to live. We'll have to work, get kicked around.
Michael Chekhov
(as Dr. Alexander Brulov)
Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
Secretary of Labor:
The Department of Labor wishes to note that the workers of Freedonia are demanding shorter hours.
Rufus T. Firefly: Very well, we'll give them shorter hours. We'll start by cutting their lunch hour to 20 minutes.
Rufus T. Firefly: Very well, we'll give them shorter hours. We'll start by cutting their lunch hour to 20 minutes.
From Duck Soup
Henry Travers
(as Clarence)
Clarence:
Clarence Oddbody, AS2.
George Bailey: Oddbody... Hey, what's an AS2?
Clarence: Angel, Second Class.
[the bridgekeeper, overhearing it, falls backwards in his chair]
George Bailey: Oddbody... Hey, what's an AS2?
Clarence: Angel, Second Class.
[the bridgekeeper, overhearing it, falls backwards in his chair]
Marlon Brando
(as Terry Malloy)
Audrey Hepburn
(as Eliza Doolittle)
Eliza Doolittle:
I sold flowers; I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else.
From My Fair Lady
Howland Chamberlain
(as Mr. Thorpe)
[Mr. Thorpe has offered Derry a job as asst. floor manager and part-time soda jerk]
Fred Derry: At what salary?
Mr. Thorpe: Thirty-two fifty per week.
Fred Derry: Thirty-two fifty. I used to make over four hundred dollars a month in the Air Force.
Mr. Thorpe: The war is over, Derry.
Fred Derry: At what salary?
Mr. Thorpe: Thirty-two fifty per week.
Fred Derry: Thirty-two fifty. I used to make over four hundred dollars a month in the Air Force.
Mr. Thorpe: The war is over, Derry.
Dana Andrews
(as Fred Derry)
Peggy Stephenson:
Well, what have you been doing with yourself lately?
Fred Derry: Working.
Peggy Stephenson: Yes, Dad told me he heard you were in some kind of building work.
Fred Derry: Well, that's a hopeful way of putting it. I'm really in the junk business - an occupation for which many people feel I'm well-qualified by temperament and training.
Fred Derry: Working.
Peggy Stephenson: Yes, Dad told me he heard you were in some kind of building work.
Fred Derry: Well, that's a hopeful way of putting it. I'm really in the junk business - an occupation for which many people feel I'm well-qualified by temperament and training.
Oscar Levant
(as Adam Cook)
Adam Cook:
I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm... unemployed at the moment.
From An American in Paris
