Laura (1944 film) Quotes

Laura (1944 film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Laura ended in 1970.

It features Otto Preminger as producer, David Raksin in charge of musical score, and Joseph LaShelle as head of cinematography.

Laura (1944 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Laura (1944 film) is 88 minutes long. Laura (1944 film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Clifton Webb as Waldo Lydecker, Vincent Price as Shelby Carpenter, Dana Andrews as Mark McPherson, Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt, Dana Andrews as Mark MacPherson, and Dorothy Adams as Bessie Clary.

Laura (1944 film) Quotes

Clifton Webb as Waldo Lydecker

• (Clifton Webb) "Murder is my favorite crime."

• (Clifton Webb) "She was quick to seize upon anything that would improve her mind or her appearance. Laura had innate breeding, but she deferred to my judgment and taste. I selected a more attractive hairdress for her. I taught her what clothes were more becoming to her. Through me, she met everyone: The famous and the infamous. Her youth and beauty, her poise and charm of manner captivated them all. She had warmth, vitality. She had authentic magnetism. Wherever we went, she stood out. Men admired her; women envied her. She became as famous as Waldo Lydecker's walking stick and his white carnation."

• (Clifton Webb) "In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention."

• (Clifton Webb) "I cannot stand these morons any longer. If you don't come with me this instant, I shall run amok."

• (Clifton Webb) "I'm not kind, I'm vicious. It's the secret of my charm."

• (Clifton Webb) "Love is eternal. It has been the strongest motivation for human actions throughout history. Love is stronger than life. It reaches beyond the dark shadow of death."

• (Clifton Webb) "I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom."

• (Clifton Webb) "My dear, either you were born on a extremely rustic community, where good manners are unknown, or you suffer from a common feminine delusion that the mere fact of being a woman exempts you from the rules of civilized conduct."

• (Clifton Webb) "Have you ever been in love?"
• (Dana Andrews) "A doll in Washington Heights once got a fox fur outta me."

• (Clifton Webb) "You'd better watch out, McPherson, or you'll finish up in a psychiatric ward. I doubt they've ever had a patient who fell in love with a corpse."

• (Clifton Webb) "I just dropped in to inquire about the state of your health? Insipid, I hope."

• (Clifton Webb) "I shall never forget the weekend Laura died. A silver sun burned through the sky like a huge magnifying glass. It was the hottest Sunday in my recollection. I felt as if I were the only human being left in New York. For with Laura's horrible death, I was alone. I, Waldo Lydecker, was the only one who really knew her, and I had just begun to write Laura's story when another of those detectives came to see me. I had him wait. I could watch him through the half-open door."
• (Clifton Webb) "I noted that his attention was fixed upon my clock. There was only one other in existence, and that was in Laura's apartment, in the very room where she was murdered."

• (Clifton Webb) "How singularly innocent I look this morning."

• (Clifton Webb) "If you come a little bit closer, my boy, I can just crack your skull with my walking stick."

• (Clifton Webb) "Let's not be psychiatric. But in a word, yes."

• (Clifton Webb) "I should be sincerely sorry to see my neighbor's children devoured by wolves."

Vincent Price as Shelby Carpenter

• (Vincent Price) "I forgot to tell you, I also read palms, I swallow swords, I mend my own socks, I never eat garlic or onions, what more could you want of a man?"

• (Vincent Price) "For the last time, Louise, will you marry me?"
• (Louise, Ann's Cook) "No, but I cooked some chicken liver for you."

• (Vincent Price) "I knew there was something on my mind. Ah yes, will you dine with me tomorrow night?"
• (Gene Tierney) "Yes."
• (Vincent Price) "No, it's not that; it's the next night. And what about three weeks from tonight? And all the nights in between?"
• (Gene Tierney) "Shelby, you talk as if I had no other engagements."
• (Vincent Price) "And two months from now? And the month after that?"
• (Gene Tierney) "What about next year?"
• (Vincent Price) "Oh, that's all settled. What about breakfast?"
• (Gene Tierney) "What about dancing?"
• (Vincent Price) "What about lunch? Beautiful lunches, day after day after day?"

• (Vincent Price) "I can afford a blemish on my character, but not on my clothes."

Dana Andrews as Mark McPherson

• (Dana Andrews) "You know you are on the list too."
• (Clifton Webb) "Good. It would insult me to be overlooked."

• (Dana Andrews) "Yeah, dames are always pulling a switch on you."

• (Dana Andrews) "When a dame gets killed, she doesn't worry about how she looks."
• (Clifton Webb) "Will you stop calling her a dame?"

• (Dana Andrews) "Nice little place you have here, Mr. Lydecker."
• (Clifton Webb) "It's lavish, but I call it home."

• (Dana Andrews) "I must say, for a charming, intelligent girl, you certainly surrounded yourself with a remarkable collection of dopes."

• (Dana Andrews) "On Saturday when our men went to the hotel to tell you that Laura Hunt was dead you seemed sincerely shocked."
• (Vincent Price) "I was. I hadn't expected that mistake."
• (Dana Andrews) "But you had your alibi ready no matter who was dead."

• (Dana Andrews) "I suspect nobody and everybody."

• (Dana Andrews) "I suspect nobody and everybody. I am strictly trying to get at the truth."

Dorothy Adams as Bessie Clary

• (Dorothy Adams) "I ain't afraid of cops. I was brought up to spit whenever I saw one."
• (Dana Andrews) "OK, go ahead and spit if that'll make you feel better."

Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt

• (Gene Tierney) "You forced me to give you my word. I never have been and I never will be bound by anything I don't do of my own free will."

• (Gene Tierney) "By stooping so low you only degrade yourself."

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