“Now you listen to me, I’m an advertising man, not a red herring. I’…” — Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest (1959)

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“Now you listen to me, I’m an advertising man, not a red herring. I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders dependent upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself slightly killed.”

Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill · 1959 · film · North by Northwest (1959)

Thornhill protests his innocence to the men who have mistaken him for George Kaplan.

Spoken as Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest (1959).

North by Northwest →hitchcock identity wit

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