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“I’m sorry you think more of your diamonds than you do of your soul.”
Captain Cummings · 1933 · film · She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Cummings, posing as a temperance reformer, chides Lady Lou about her priorities.
Screen dialogue, spoken by Captain Cummings in She Done Him Wrong (1933).
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