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“You don’t belong with a grifter like me. You just got some mud on your dress, that’s all. Give it time, let it dry. It’ll brush off.”
Joe Adams · 1943 · film · Mr. Lucky (1943)
The con man Joe Adams warns Captain Steadman away from himself as he begins to change under her influence.
Screen dialogue, spoken by Joe Adams in Mr. Lucky (1943).
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