North by Northwest Quotes

North by Northwest is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . North by Northwest ended its run in 1970.

It features Alfred Hitchcock as producer, Bernard Herrmann in charge of musical score, and Robert Burks as head of cinematography.

North by Northwest is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of North by Northwest is 136 minutes long. North by Northwest is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: [[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]] as Roger Thornhill, Jessie Royce Landis as Clara Thornhill, Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall, James Mason as Phillip Vandamm, Martin Landau as Leonard, Leo G. Carroll as The Professor, Patrick McVey as Sergeant Flamm - Chicago Policeman, Adam Williams as Valerian, Robert Ellenstein as Licht, Robert Shayne as Larry Wade, Philip Coolidge as Dr. Cross, and Edward Platt as Victor Larrabee.

North by Northwest Quotes

[[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]] as Roger Thornhill

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "I don't like the games you play, Professor."
• (Leo G. Carroll) "War is hell, Mr. Thornhill. Even when it's a cold one."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "If you fellows can't lick the VanDamm's of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them and fly away with them and probably never come back, perhaps you ought to start learning how to lose a few cold wars."
• (Leo G. Carroll) "I'm afraid we're already doing that."

• (Hospital Patient) "STOP."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Oh. Excuse me."
• (Hospital Patient) "Stop."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Who are you kidding? You have no feelings to hurt."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Jack Philips, manager for Kingby Electronics."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "No, you're not, you're Roger Thornhill of Madison Avenue, and you're wanted for murder on every front page in America. Don't be modest."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Say, do I look heavyish to you?"

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "What's wrong with men like me?"
• (Eva Marie Saint) "They don't believe in marriage."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "I've been married twice."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "See what I mean?"

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "How do we know it's not a fake? It looks like a fake."
• (Bidder) "Well, one thing we know. You're no fake. You are a genuine idiot."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?"
• (Eva Marie Saint) "Lucky, I guess."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Sorry love, I'm sentimental."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "I've grown accustomed to my bourbon."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "No. No, Mother, I have not been drinking. No. No. These two men, they poured a whole bottle of bourbon into me. No, they didn't give me a chaser."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Handle with care, fellas. I'm valuable property."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Whewwwwww."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Then, then your name isn't Kaplan?"
• (Man at Prairie Crossing) "Can't say it is, 'cause it ain't."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "And what the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here?"
• (James Mason) "Games? Must we?"
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets for the theater this evening, to a show I was looking forward to and I get, well, kind of unreasonable about things like that."
• (James Mason) "With such expert playacting, you make this very room a theater."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "I'm beginning to think I'm underpaid."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "When I was a little boy, I wouldn't even let my mother undress me."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "Well, you're a big boy now."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "it's something about my face."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "It's a nice face."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "You think so?"
• (Eva Marie Saint) "I wouldn't say it if I didn't."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Oh, you're that type."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "What type?"
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Honest."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "I don't think I caught your name."
• (Leo G. Carroll) "I don't think I pitched it."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "We'll get them. We'll throw the book at them. Assault and kidnapping. Assault with a gun and a bourbon and a sports car. We'll get them."

• (Ticket Seller) "Something wrong with your eyes?"
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Yes, they're sensitive to questions."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "I'm being followed. Can you do something about that?"
• (Taxi Driver #2) "Yes I can."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Do it."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Tell me, why are you so good to me?"
• (Eva Marie Saint) "Shall I climb up and tell you why?"

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Seven parking tickets."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "I don't like the way Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me."

• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "The moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "What makes you think you have to conceal it?"
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "She might find the idea objectionable."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "Then again, she might not."

James Mason as Phillip Vandamm

• (James Mason) "Seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the F.B.I. and a little more from the Actor's Studio."

• (James Mason) "Mr. Kaplan, you are quite the performer. First you're the outraged Madison Avenue advertising executive who claims that he has been mistaken for someone else. Next, you play the fugitive from justice supposedly trying to clear himself of a crime he knows he didn't commit. And now, you're the jealous lover spurned by love and betrayal."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Apparently the only performance that will satisfy you is when I play dead."
• (James Mason) "Your very next role, and you'll be quite convincing, I assure you."

• (James Mason) "What possessed you to come blundering in here like this? Could it be an overpowering interest in art?"
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Yes, the art of survival."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "He followed me here from the hotel."
• (Martin Landau) "He was in your room?"
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Sure. Isn't everybody?"

Jessie Royce Landis as Clara Thornhill

• (Jessie Royce Landis) "You gentlemen aren't REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?"

Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall

• (Eva Marie Saint) "It's going to be a long night."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "True."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "And I don't particularly like the book I've started."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Ah."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "You know what I mean?"
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Ah, let me think. Yes, I know exactly what you mean."

• (Eva Marie Saint) "I tipped the steward five dollars to seat you here if you should come in."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Is that a proposition?"
• (Eva Marie Saint) "I never discuss love on an empty stomach."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "You've already eaten."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "But you haven't."

• (Eva Marie Saint) "You've got taste in clothes, taste in food."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Hmm, And taste in women. I like your flavor."

• (Eva Marie Saint) "While I'm calling, you can change your clothes."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Where do you propose I do that? In Marshall Fields' window?"
• (Eva Marie Saint) "I sort of had the men's room in mind."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Did you, now? You're the smartest girl I ever spent the night with on a train."

• (Eva Marie Saint) "Roger O. Thornhill. What does the O stand for?"
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Nothing."

• (Eva Marie Saint) "Patience is a virtue."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "So is breathing."

• (Eva Marie Saint) "How do I know you aren't a murderer?"
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "You don't."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "Maybe you're planning to murder me right here, tonight."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Shall I?"
• (Eva Marie Saint) "Please do."

• (Eva Marie Saint) "I want you to do a favor for me. A big, big favor."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Name it."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "I want you to leave right now, stay far away from me, and don't come near me again. We're not going to get involved. Last night was last night, and it's all there was, and it's all there is. There isn't going to be anything more between us. So please. Goodbye, good luck, no conversation, just leave."

Robert Shayne as Larry Wade

• (Robert Shayne) "We've gotten a head start here, Mr. Thornhill."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "That won't last long."

Leo G. Carroll as The Professor

• (Leo G. Carroll) "War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even when it's a cold one."

• (Leo G. Carroll) "If I thought there was any chance of changing your mind, I'd talk about Miss Kendall, of whom you so obviously disapprove."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Yes, for using sex like some people use a flyswatter."

• (Leo G. Carroll) "We ahh -- we do nothing."

Martin Landau as Leonard

• (Martin Landau) "You're not taking her on the plane with you?"
• (James Mason) "Of course I am. Like our friends, I too believe in neatness, Leonard. This matter is best disposed of from a great height, over water."

Philip Coolidge as Dr. Cross

• (Philip Coolidge) "Have you been drinking?"
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Doctor, I have gas."

Patrick McVey as Sergeant Flamm - Chicago Policeman

• (Charley - Chicago Policeman) "Where are we goin'?"
• (Patrick McVey) "Airport."
• (Charley - Chicago Policeman) "For what?"
• (Patrick McVey) "Orders."

Edward Platt as Victor Larrabee

• (Judge Anson B. Flynn) "How long have you known your client?"
• (Edward Platt) "Seven years, Your Honor."
• (Judge Anson B. Flynn) "Do you know him to be a reasonable man?"
• (Edward Platt) "Absolutely."
• (Jessie Royce Landis) "Ha."
• ([[Ned Glass][Cary Grant]]) "Mother."
• (Judge Anson B. Flynn) "And you believe there is some --"

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