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“I don’t approve of, but I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions. They’re the dreamers, poets, tragic figures in this world, but interesting.”
Leopold Dilg · 1942 · film · The Talk of the Town (1942)
Dilg muses on idealists during a fireside debate with Lightcap.
Screen dialogue, spoken by Leopold Dilg in The Talk of the Town (1942).
On the same subject.
“Acting is a matter of hiding what you have to show and showing what you have to hide.”
Cary Grant
“You mean nothing must interfere with your work? Our marriage must entail no domestic entanglements of any kind.”
Cary Grant as David Huxley · 1938
“Hello, friends and enemies.”
Cary Grant as C. K. Dexter Haven · 1940
“This is developing into a very bad habit!”
Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster · 1944