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“What is the law? It’s a gun pointed at somebody’s head. All depends upon which end of the gun you stand, whether the law is just or not.”
Leopold Dilg · 1942 · film · The Talk of the Town (1942)
The fugitive Dilg argues legal philosophy with the punctilious Professor Lightcap while hiding in his house.
Screen dialogue, spoken by Leopold Dilg in The Talk of the Town (1942).
On the same subject.
“Judy, Judy, Judy.”
Cary Grant · 1939
“I refuse to discuss my private life and my friendships and my family, present, past and future.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.”
Cary Grant · 1958
“The film I most cared about was a flop. None But the Lonely Heart was the only time I played a character very near myself, a man unsure of himself, a drifter, a rake.”
Cary Grant · 1980