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“It’s a conspiracy, I tell you. The minute you start they put you on the all-American sucker list. You start out to build a home and wind up in the poorhouse.”
Jim Blandings · 1948 · film · Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Blandings rants about the escalating cost of building his house in Connecticut.
Screen dialogue, spoken by Jim Blandings in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948).
On the same subject.
“I’ve been called the longest lasting young man about town. It’s ridiculous for a man in his ’fifties: but then until thirty-five a man is often a self-centered idiot. After 35, he should try to begin to make more sense. I know I was impossible before 35; I’m hardly possible now.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“My father made no more than a modest living and we had little money. Yet today I am considered, except among the wealthy, to be wealthy.”
Cary Grant · 1963
“I learned that you appreciate work most while you’re at leisure, and leisure while you’re at work. It’s like being married or single. You can’t be both at the same time.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“Everybody thinks I’m relaxed. I’ve spent my whole life tense.”
Cary Grant