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“You see, when a girl is under 21, she’s protected by law. When she’s over 65, she’s protected by nature. Anywhere in between, she’s fair game! Look out!”
Cary Grant as Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman · 1959 · film · Operation Petticoat (1959)
Sherman warns his crew about the nurses now aboard his submarine.
Spoken as Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman in Operation Petticoat (1959).
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