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His Girl Friday Quotes

His Girl Friday is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . His Girl Friday ended in 1970.

It features Howard Hawks as producer, Sidney Cutner in charge of musical score, and Joseph Walker (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

His Girl Friday is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of His Girl Friday is 92 minutes long. His Girl Friday is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Gene Lockhart as Sheriff Hartwell, Cary Grant as Walter Burns, Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson, Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin, Porter Hall as Murphy, Abner Biberman as Louis, Helen Mack as Molly Malloy, Billy Gilbert as Joe Pettibone, Regis Toomey as Sanders, and Ernest Truex as Bensinger.

His Girl Friday Quotes

Cary Grant as Walter Burns

  • (Cary Grant) "Diabetes. I ought to know better than to hire anybody with a disease."
  • (Cary Grant) "You've got the brain of a pancake. This isn't just a story you're covering; it's a revolution. This is the greatest yarn in journalism since Livingstone discovered Stanley."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "It's the other way around."
  • (Cary Grant) "Oh, well, don't get technical at a time like this."
  • (Cary Grant) "Look, Hildy, I only acted like any husband that didn't want to see his home broken up."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "What home?"
  • (Cary Grant) ""What home"? Don't you remember the home I promised you?"
  • (Cary Grant) "Listen, you insignificant, square-toed, pimpled-headed spy."
  • (Cary Grant) "Oh and I see you've got your rubbers too, always good to be prepared for anything."
  • (Cary Grant) "What? A strike? What strike? Where? Albany? Well, I know it's on the way, Duffy, but I can't ask Hildy to --"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "All right, we'll honeymoon in Albany."
  • (Cary Grant) "Okay, Duffy."
  • (Cary Grant) "Well, isn't that a coincidence, we're going to Albany. I wonder if Bruce can put us up."
  • (Cary Grant) "Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page."
  • (Cary Grant) "Oh, you're losing your arm. You used to be able to pitch better than that."
  • (Cary Grant) "Let's see this paragon. Is he as good as you say?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Why, he's better."
  • (Cary Grant) "Well then, what does he want with you?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Ah-ha-ha, now you got me."
  • (Cary Grant) "There's been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey -- here."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Oh, I jumped out that window a long time ago."
  • (Cary Grant) "He looks like that fellow in the movies; Ralph Bellamy."
  • (Cary Grant) "Bruce, I, uh -- let me get this straight. I must have misunderstood you. You mean you're taking the sleeper today and then getting married tomorrow?"
  • (Ralph Bellamy) "Oh, well, it's not like that."
  • (Cary Grant) "Well, what's it like?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Poor Walter. He'll toss and turn all night. Perhaps we better tell him Mother's coming along, too."
  • (Cary Grant) "Mother? Why, your mother kicked the bucket."
  • (Ralph Bellamy) "No, my mother, my mother."
  • (Cary Grant) "Oh, your mother. Oh, well, that relieves my mind."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "It was cruel of us to let you suffer that way."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Isn't Walter sweet? Always wanting to protect me."
  • (Cary Grant) "What do you think I am, a crook?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Yes."
  • (Cary Grant) "Hey, Duffy, listen. Is there any way we can stop the 4:00 train to Albany from leaving town?"
  • (Duffy - Copy Editor) "We might dynamite it."
  • (Cary Grant) "Could we?"
  • (Cary Grant) "What were you when you came here five years ago; a little college girl from a school of journalism. I took a doll-faced hick --"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Well, you wouldn't take me if I hadn't been doll-faced."
  • (Cary Grant) "Well, why should I? I thought it would be a novelty to have a face around here a man could look at without shuddering."
  • (Cary Grant) "Well Butch, where are you? -- Well, what are you doing there? Haven't you even started? -- Listen, it's a matter of life and death --. Well, you can't stop for a dame now. I don't care if you've been after her for six years. Butch; our whole lives are at stake. Are you going to let a woman come between us after all we've been through? -- Butch, I'd put my arm in fire for you, up to here. Now you can't double-cross me -- Put her on, I'll talk to her."
  • (Cary Grant) "Oh, good evening madam. Now listen, you ten-cent glamour girl. You can't keep Butch away from his duty --. What's that? -- You say that again, I'll come over there and kick you in the teeth --. Say, what kind of language is that? Now look here you.;"
  • (Cary Grant) "She hung up. What did I say?"

Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson

  • (Rosalind Russell) "Listen to me, you great big bubble-headed baboon."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "A big fat lummox like you hiring an airplane to write: "Hildy, don't be hasty. Remember my dimple. Walter." Delayed our divorce 20 minutes while the judge went out and watched it."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Walter."
  • (Cary Grant) "What?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "The mayor's first wife, what was her name?"
  • (Cary Grant) "You mean the one with the wart on her?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Right."
  • (Cary Grant) "Fanny."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "I suppose I proposed to you?"
  • (Cary Grant) "Well, you practically did, making goo-goo eyes at me for two years until I broke down."
  • (Cary Grant) ""Oh, Walter." And I still claim I was tight the night I proposed to you. If you had been a gentleman, you would have forgotten all about it. But not you."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Why, you;."
  • (Cary Grant) "You're losing your eye. You used to be able to pitch better than that."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Now, get this, you double-crossing chimpanzee: There ain't going to be any interview and there ain't going to be any story. And that certified check of yours is leaving with me in twenty minutes. I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up. If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "He treats me like a woman."
  • (Cary Grant) "Oh he does, does he? Mm-hm -- how did I treat you? Like a water buffalo?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "All I know is that instead of two weeks in Atlantic City with my bridegroom, I spent two weeks in a coal mine with John Krupsky. You don't deny that, do you Walter?"
  • (Cary Grant) "Deny it? I'm proud of it. We beat the whole country on that story."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Well, suppose we did. That isn't what I got married for."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Did you hear that? That's the story I just wrote. Yes, yes, I know we had a bargain. I just said I'd write it, I didn't say I wouldn't tear it up. It's all in little pieces now, Walter, and I hope to do the same for you some day."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "And that, my friends, is my farewell to the newspaper game."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Take your hands off me. What are you playing osteopath?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "There's an old newspaper superstition that the first big check you get, you put in the lining of your hat. In your hat. It brings good luck."
  • (Porter Hall) "I've been a reporter for 20 years; I never heard that before."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Neither did I."

Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin

  • (Ralph Bellamy) "I like him; he's got a lot of charm."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Well he comes by it naturally his grandfather was a snake."
  • (Ralph Bellamy) "Mighty nice little town, Albany. They've got the state capitol there, you know."
  • (Ralph Bellamy) "You know, Hildy, he's not such a bad fellow."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "No, he should make some girl real happy."
  • (Ralph Bellamy) "Uh-huh."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Slap-happy."
  • (Ralph Bellamy) "He's not the man for you. I can see that. But I sort of like him. He's got a lot of charm."
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Well, he comes by it naturally; his grandfather was a snake."

Ernest Truex as Bensinger

  • (Ernest Truex) "Are we invited to the wedding?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Well, I might use you for a bridesmaid, Roy."

Gene Lockhart as Sheriff Hartwell

  • (Gene Lockhart) "Aiding an escaped criminal and a little charge of kidnapping."
  • (Fred, the Mayor) "Well, looks like about ten years a piece for you two birds."
  • (Cary Grant) "Does it?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "If you think you've got The Morning Post licked it's time for you to get out of town."
  • (Fred, the Mayor) "Whistling in the dark. Well that isn't going to help you this time. You're through."
  • (Cary Grant) "Listen the last man that said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat."

Billy Gilbert as Joe Pettibone

  • (Fred, the Mayor) "Who else was there when he gave you this?"
  • (Billy Gilbert) "Nobody. He was out fishing."
  • (Fred, the Mayor) "Get the Governor on the phone."
  • (Billy Gilbert) "No, he's not there. He's out duck shooting."
  • (Fred, the Mayor) "The blasted nimrod -- fishing, duck shooting. A guy who's done nothing for the last forty years but play pinochle gets elected governor and right away he thinks he's a Tarzan."

Abner Biberman as Louis

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Helen Mack as Molly Malloy

  • (Helen Mack) "If you was worth breaking my nails on I'd tear your face wide open."

Regis Toomey as Sanders

  • (Regis Toomey) "Where'd ya get the hat?"
  • (Rosalind Russell) "Hey. I paid twelve bucks for that hat."

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