Holiday (1938 film) Quotes

Holiday (1938 film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Holiday ended its run in 1970.

It features Everett Riskin as producer, Sidney Cutner in charge of musical score, and Frank F. Planer as head of cinematography.

Holiday (1938 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Holiday (1938 film) is 95 minutes long. Holiday (1938 film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton, Cary Grant as Johnny Case, Henry Kolker as Edward Seton, Edward Everett Horton as Professor Nick Potter, and Doris Nolan as Julia Seton.

Holiday (1938 film) Quotes

Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton

• (Katharine Hepburn) "But, why hasn't he a right to live part of his life as he wants to?"
• (Henry Kolker) "Linda, I should like to understand what he and you are aiming at -- but, I confess I cannot. I consider his whole attitude un-American."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh, are you serious?"
• (Henry Kolker) "Entirely."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Well, then, he is, and he won't go to Heaven when he dies, because apparently, he can't quite believe that a life devoted to piling of money is all it's cracked up to be. Strange, isn't it, when he has us right before his eyes for such a shining example."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "It'll be a pity if this doesn't come off, it'll be a real pity."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Yes, it'll be a pity if this doesn't come off, too."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "What is it you want, Julia? Just security? To sit smugly back in your bank vault among the worthys of the world?"
• (Doris Nolan) "Well, one thing I don't want is to start this endless, aimless discussion all over again."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "What's the use of having all this jack around if it can't get us a superior kind of man?"

• (Katharine Hepburn) "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is all right with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "Well, well, let's ring bells. Let's send up skyrockets.... Well, let's turn on all the lights in the house."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "You see Case, the trouble with me is that I never could decide whether I wanted to be Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, or John L. Lewis."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "For the love of Pete -- it's the witch and Dopey."

• (Mrs. Laura Cram) "I've never been up here before. It's awfully quaint, isn't it?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "We like it."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "My brother Ned; Mr and Mrs Potter; they're friends of Johnny's."
• (Mrs. Susan Elliott Potter) "He used to live with us."
• (Edward Everett Horton) "We've come to warn his future bride about him; he never puts the cap back on the toothpaste."
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "Mm-hmm. Then we'll drink a toast to Johnny; he needs it."
• (Mrs. Susan Elliott Potter) "Needs it ?"
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "Oh. I'm wrong. He doesn't need it. Johnny's doing all right."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "What's on your mind Ned ?"
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "Nothing's on my mind."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "What do you mean; Johnny's doing all right ?"
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "I mean he's doing All Right. He's having a whirl. Julia's got his hair slicked down and Father's seeing that he meets the important people."
• (Edward Everett Horton) "My word; are there important people downstairs ?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh; frightfully important; that's why I want to give a party up here."
• (Edward Everett Horton) "'Miss Linda Seton; on New Year's Eve; entertained a small group of Very Unimportant People.'"
• (Edward Everett Horton) "To our hostess."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "May I drink too ?"

• (Katharine Hepburn) "You mean to say your mother wasn't even a whoozis?"

• (Katharine Hepburn) "What's it like to get drunk, Ned?"
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "Well, I -- how drunk?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Good and drunk."
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "Oh, it's wonderful. You see, you think clear as crystal. But every move, every situation is a problem. It gets pretty interesting."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "You get beaten in the end though, don't you?"
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "Sure, but that's okay."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Where do you wind up?"
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "Where does anybody wind up? You die -- that's okay, too."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh, Ned. that's awful."
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "Think so? Other things are worse."

Cary Grant as Johnny Case

• (Cary Grant) "You poor thing. They won't let you have any fun, and they won't let you have any time to think."

• (Cary Grant) "This is quite different, from the rest of the house I mean."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "This was Mother's idea. She thought there ought to be one room in the house where people could come and have some fun. She used to be up here as much as we were before she died. I think it was kind of an escape for her. She was marvelous."

• (Cary Grant) "Judas."
• (Downstairs Butler Admitting Johnny) "I beg your pardon?"
• (Cary Grant) "Er, I just said Judas. It didn't mean anything."

• (Cary Grant) "Anything else, sir?"
• (Henry Kolker) "I beg your pardon."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "I should think you would."

• (Cary Grant) "I want to save part of my life for myself. There's a catch to it though, it's gotta be part of the young part. You know, retire young, work old, come back and work when I know what I'm working for, does that make any sense?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "That makes a lot of sense. Does Julia know?"
• (Cary Grant) "No, I don't want to raise her hopes until I get enough money together."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh she has enough for two right now, or ten for that matter."
• (Cary Grant) "No, that's out. I don't want her dough, I want to earn it myself."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "That's foolish. You're alright though, Case, you haven't been bitten yet you haven't been caught by it."
• (Cary Grant) "By what?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "The reverence for riches. Look out for that, Johnny."

• (Cary Grant) "Oh, did she love that too?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Now don't you a word about Leopold, he's very sensitive."
• (Cary Grant) "Yours."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Looks like me."

• (Cary Grant) "I don't call what I've been doing living."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "And what do you recommend for yourself, doctor?"
• (Cary Grant) "A holiday."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "For how long?"
• (Cary Grant) "As long as I need."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "You mean just to play?"
• (Cary Grant) "No. I've been working since I was 10, I want to find out why I'm working. It can't just be to pay bills and pile up more money, even if you do the government's going to take most of it."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "But what is the answer?"
• (Cary Grant) "I don't know, that's what I intend to find out. The world's changing out there, there are a lot of new, exciting ideas running around. Some may be right and some may be cockeyed but they're affecting all our lives. I want to know how I stand, where I fit in the picture, what it's all gonna mean to me. I can't find that out sitting behind some desk in an office, so as soon as I get enough money together, I'm going to knock off for a while."

• (Cary Grant) "When I find myself in a position like this, I ask myself what would General Motors do? And then I do the opposite."

• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "You see, Father wanted a large family so Mother promptly had Linda, but Linda was a girl so Mother promptly had Julia, but Julia was a girl and the whole thing seemed hopeless. Then, the following year Mother had me, it was a boy and the fair name of Seaton would flourish."
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "Drink to Mother, Johnny, she tried to be a Seaton for a while, then gave up and died."
• (Cary Grant) "You're talking out of your hat, Ned."
• (Edward 'Ned' Seton) "I'm not."

Edward Everett Horton as Professor Nick Potter

• (Edward Everett Horton) "Congratulations, miss Seton. You're not getting very much, but I'm sure you can improve him."

• (Mrs. Susan Elliott Potter) "Don't tell anyone, but I've got a run in my stocking."
• (Edward Everett Horton) "Good heavens, we're ruined."
• (Edward Everett Horton) "Not a word of this to a soul."

• (Edward Everett Horton) "You know, this reminds me a little of the palace of Caligula. You remember Caligula, don't you dear?"
• (Mrs. Susan Elliott Potter) "Oh, very well indeed. Whatever became of him?"

Henry Kolker as Edward Seton

• (Henry Kolker) "Interesting neck-tie you have."
• (Henry Kolker) "I have a haberdasher whose made my ties for many years and that pattern I seem to recognize."
• (Cary Grant) "Perhaps sir, because this happens to be your neck-tie. Ned thought it might bring me luck."

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