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Men, are you over 40? When you wake up in the morning, do you feel tired and rundown? Do you have that listless feeling...
[the camera pans around the courtyard; cut to later in the day]
Jeff: [answering phone]
Jefferies.
Gunnison:
Congratulations, Jeff!
Jeff:
For what?
Gunnison:
For getting rid of that cast!
Jeff:
Who said I was getting rid of it?
Gunnison:
This is Wednesday; seven weeks from the day you broke your leg. Yes or no?
Jeff:
Gunnison, how did you ever get to be such a big editor with such a small memory?
Gunnison:
By thrift, industry, and hard work... and, uh, catching the publisher with his secretary. Did I get the wrong day?
Jeff:
No... no, wrong week. *Next* Wednesday I emerge from this plaster cocoon.
Lisa:
How's your leg?
Jeff:
Hurts a little.
Lisa:
Your stomach?
Jeff:
Empty as a football.
Lisa:
And your love life?
Jeff:
Not too active.
Lisa:
Anything else bothering you?
Jeff:
Uh-huh, who are you?
Jeff:
She wants me to marry her.
Stella:
That's normal.
Jeff:
I don't want to.
Stella:
That's abnormal.
Jeff:
When am I going to see you again?
Lisa: [angry]
Not for a long time...
[softening]
Lisa:
At least not until tomorrow night.
Lisa:
I wish I were creative.
Jeff:
You are. You're great at creating difficult situations.
Lisa:
What's a logical explanation for a woman taking a trip with no luggage?
Jeff:
That she didn't know she was going on a trip and where she was going she wouldn't need any luggage.
Lisa:
Exactly.
Stella:
We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?
Jeff:
Readers Digest, April 1939.
Stella:
Well, I only quote from the best.
Jeff: [Lisa wants to be part of Jeff's globe-trotting life of adventure]
You don't sleep much, you bathe even less and you'd have to eat things that you wouldn't want to look at while they were alive.
Lt. Doyle:
You didn't see the killing or the body. How do you know there was a murder?
Jeff:
Because everything this fellow's done has been suspicious: trips at night in the rain, knifes, saws, trunks with rope, and now this wife that isn't there anymore.
Lt. Doyle:
I admit it does have a mysterious sound. But it could be any number of things for the wife disappearing. Murder is the least part.
Jeff:
Now, Doyle, don't tell me that he's just an unemployed magician amusing the neighborhood with his sleight of hand. Don't tell me that.
Newlywed woman:
...but if you'd told me you quit your job, we wouldn't have gotten married.
Newlywed man:
Oh, honey, come on.
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