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“What do you think I want to break out of — a bloomin’ pudding? Now go on, get something big.”
Sergeant Archibald Cutter · 1939 · film · Gunga Din (1939)
Cutter mocks the small tools Gunga Din has brought him while planning his escape from a prison cell.
Screen dialogue, spoken by Sergeant Archibald Cutter in Gunga Din (1939).
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