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“They say money talks — all it’s ever said to me is goodbye.”
Ernie Mott · 1944 · film · None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
Ernie makes a rueful joke about his chronic lack of funds.
Screen dialogue, spoken by Ernie Mott in None But the Lonely Heart (1944).
On the same subject.
“Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.”
Cary Grant as Dudley · 1947
“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
“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