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“I’m so broke I’m in two halves.”
Ernie Mott · 1944 · film · None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
Ernie Mott, a restless drifter in London's East End, laments his poverty.
Screen dialogue, spoken by Ernie Mott in None But the Lonely Heart (1944).
On the same subject.
“Danielle, do me a favor. Don’t call me a cat.”
Cary Grant as John Robie · 1955
“Everybody thinks I’m relaxed. I’ve spent my whole life tense.”
Cary Grant
“I’ve been called cheap so often I no longer wince at the word.”
Cary Grant
“For more than half my fifty-eight years I have cautiously peered from behind the facade of a man known as Cary Grant. The protection of that facade proved both an advantage and a disadvantage. If I couldn’t clearly see out, how could anyone see in?”
Cary Grant · 1963