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“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster · 1944 · film · Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
As Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, dir. Frank Capra.
Spoken as Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), directed by Frank Capra.
On the same subject.
“Judy, Judy, Judy.”
Cary Grant · 1939
“It took time to be accepted; it almost took twenty years until I got to be like a well-advertised brand of tea. Housewives bought that kind rather than take a chance on a brand they are not familiar with.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“Sure it was your fault. You were gonna have dinner with him, the Dutchman hired him, I sent him up on schedule, the fog came in, a tree got in the way. All your fault. Forget it.”
Cary Grant as Geoff Carter · 1939
“Let me tell you something. I am not a father figure. I am not an uncle figure, or a brother or a cousin figure. In fact, the only figure I intend being is a total stranger figure.”
Cary Grant as Walter Eckland · 1964