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Rear Window Quotes

Rear Window is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Rear Window ended its run in 1970.

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

Rear Window is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Rear Window is 112 minutes long. Rear Window is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Thelma Ritter as Stella, James Stewart as Jeff, Grace Kelly as Lisa, Rand Harper and Havis Davenport as Newlywed man, and Raymond Burr as Lars Thorwald.

Rear Window Quotes

James Stewart as Jeff

  • (Voice on radio) "Men, are you over 40? When you wake up in the morning, do you feel tired and rundown? Do you have that listless feeling --"
  • (James Stewart) "Jefferies."
  • (Jeff's Editor) "Congratulations, Jeff."
  • (James Stewart) "For what?"
  • (Jeff's Editor) "For getting rid of that cast."
  • (James Stewart) "Who said I was getting rid of it?"
  • (Jeff's Editor) "This is Wednesday; seven weeks from the day you broke your leg. Yes or no?"
  • (James Stewart) "Gunnison, how did you ever get to be such a big editor with such a small memory?"
  • (Jeff's Editor) "By thrift, industry, and hard work -- and, uh, catching the publisher with his secretary. Did I get the wrong day?"
  • (James Stewart) "No -- no, wrong week. Next Wednesday I emerge from this plaster cocoon."
  • (James Stewart) "Are you interested in solving this case or in making me look foolish?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Well, if possible, both."
  • (James Stewart) "Well then, do a good job of it. Go over there and search Thorwald's apartment. The whole place must be knee-deep in evidence."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "I can't do that."
  • (James Stewart) "No, I mean not right now. Just wait for a while until he goes out later for drink or a paper or something. What he doesn't know woun't hurt him."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "I can't do that even if he isn't there."
  • (James Stewart) "Why not? Does he have a curtesy card from the local police department?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Now don't get me angry. This is America. Not even a detective can just walk into an apartment and search it. Why personaly, if I was caught in there, they'd have my badge within 10 minutes."
  • (James Stewart) "Then make sure you don't get caught, that's all. If you find something, you have a murder. They'd probaly not care very much about a few broken house rules. If you don't find anything, the fellow's clear."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Lars Thorwald -- is no more a murderer than I am."
  • (James Stewart) "You mean that you can explain everything strange that has been going on over there, and is still going on?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "No, and neither can you. That's a secret private world your looking into out there. People do a lot of things in private they couldn't possibly explain in public."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Like killing their wives?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Get that idea out of your head. It will only lead you in the wrong direction."
  • (James Stewart) "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."
  • (James Stewart) "Would you fix me a sandwich, please?"
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Yes, I will. And I'll spread a little common sense on the bread."
  • (James Stewart) "All right, Doyle. I take it that you didn't find the trunk. And all of this is just some speech you made up one night at a policeman's ball."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "I found the trunk, a half-an-hour after I left here this morning. It was at Grand Central Station."
  • (Grace Kelly) "I suppose it's necessary for a man to tie up a trunk with heavy rope?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "If the lock is broken, yes."
  • (James Stewart) "And what did you find inside the trunk? Surely no tomato paste to me?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Mrs. Thorwald's clothes. Clean, well-packed, not stylish, but presentable."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Didn't you take them to the police crime lab to have them examined?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "I re-packed them and sent them on their merry and legal way."
  • (James Stewart) "Why would a woman who is going away for a short trip does she take everything that she owns?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Let's let the female psychologist answer that."
  • (Grace Kelly) "It's looks to me like she is never comming back."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Now, that is known as a private family quarell."
  • (James Stewart) "All right, but if she was never comming back, why didn't he tell his landlord that? I'll tell you why Thorwald never told his landlord that his wife was never comming back. It's because he was hiding something in the apartment -- or he still is."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Do you tell your landlord everything?"
  • (James Stewart) "Uh -- I told you to be careful, Tom."
  • (James Stewart) "Who said they left then?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Who left where?"
  • (James Stewart) "The Thorwalds at six o'clock in the morning yesterday."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "The building superintendant and two tennants in the building lobby. Flat out statements with no hesitation. The Thorwalds were on their way to the railroad station."
  • (James Stewart) "Now Tom, how could anyone possible guess that? Did they have signs on their luggage saying 'Grand Central or Bust'?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "The superintenant met Thorwald when he came back. When he asked where he'd been, Mr. Thorwald told him that he took his wife to Grand Central Railroad Station and put her on a train for the country. See?"
  • (James Stewart) "I see. This superintenant must be a pretty bright guy. Have you checked his bank statements recently? See if he was paid off?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Huh?"
  • (James Stewart) "Well, what good is his information? It's a second-hand version of an unsupported story by the murderer himself: Thorwald. Now, did anyone actually see the woman that Thorwald was with get on the train?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Jeff, I hate to bring this up but this whole thing started because you said she was murdered. Now, did you or anyone else see Mrs. Thorwald being murdered?"
  • (James Stewart) "She sure is the "eat, drink and be merry" girl."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Yeah, she'll wind up fat, alcoholic and miserable."
  • (James Stewart) "She's too perfect, she's too talented, she's too beautiful, she's too sophisticated, she's too everything but what I want."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Is, um, what you want something you can discuss?"
  • (James Stewart) "I just can't figure it. He went out several times last night in the rain carrying his sample case."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Well, he's a salesman, isn't he?"
  • (James Stewart) "Well, what would he be selling at three o'clock in the morning?"
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Flashlights. Luminous dials for watches. House numbers that light up."
  • (James Stewart) "When am I going to see you again?"
  • (Grace Kelly) "Not for a long time --"
  • (Grace Kelly) "at least not until tomorrow night."
  • (Jeff's Editor) "It's about time you got married, before you turn into a lonesome and bitter old man."
  • (James Stewart) "Yeah, can't you just see me, rushing home to a hot apartment to listen to the automatic laundry and the electric dishwasher and the garbage disposal and the nagging wife --"
  • (Jeff's Editor) "Jeff, wives don't nag anymore. They discuss."
  • (James Stewart) "Oh, is that so, is that so? Well, maybe in the high-rent district they discuss. In my neighborhood they still nag."
  • (James Stewart) "Why would a man leave his apartment three times on a rainy night with a suitcase and come back three times?"
  • (Grace Kelly) "He likes the way his wife welcomes him home."
  • (James Stewart) "Come on, Thorwald, answer it. Come on, your curious. You wonder if it's your girlfriend calling. The one you killed for. Go on, pick it up."
  • (Raymond Burr) "Hello?"
  • (James Stewart) "Did you get my note? Well, did you get it Thorwald?"
  • (Raymond Burr) "Who are you?"
  • (James Stewart) "I'll give you a chance to find out. Meet me in the bar at the Albert Hotel. Do it right away."
  • (Raymond Burr) "Why should I?"
  • (James Stewart) "A little business meeting -- to settle the estate of your late wife."
  • (Raymond Burr) "I -- I don't know what you mean."
  • (James Stewart) "Come on, quit stalling or I'll hang up and call the police. Would you like that?"
  • (Raymond Burr) "I only have 100 dollars or so."
  • (James Stewart) "That's a start. I'm at the Albert now. I'll be looking for you."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "You didn't see the killing or the body. How do you know there was a murder?"
  • (James Stewart) "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."
  • (James Stewart) "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."
  • (James Stewart) "What do you need as evidence? Bloody footprints leading up to his door?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "One thing I don't need is heckling. You called me and asked for help. Now you're behaving like a taxpayer."
  • (James Stewart) "You know by tomorrow morning, there may not be any evidence left in that apartment, you know that?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "A detective's worst nightmare."
  • (James Stewart) "What about the knife and saw I saw him wrapping up in newspaper?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Do you own a saw?"
  • (James Stewart) "Well -- yeah. At home in my garage, I keep --"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "How many people did you cut up with it?"
  • (James Stewart) "He killed a dog last night because the dog was scratching around in the garden. You know why? Because he had something buried in that garden that the dog scented."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Like an old hambone?"
  • (James Stewart) "I don't know what pet names Thorwald had for his wife."
  • (James Stewart) "I get myself half killed for you and you reward me by stealing my assignments."
  • (Jeff's Editor) "I didn't ask you to stand in the middle of that automobile racetrack."
  • (James Stewart) "You asked for a, something dramatically different. You got it."
  • (Jeff's Editor) "So did you."
  • (James Stewart) "How's your wife?"
  • (James Stewart) "I've seen bickering and family quarrels and mysterious trips at night, and knives and saws and ropes, and now since last evening, not a sign of the wife. How do you explain that?"
  • (Grace Kelly) "Maybe she died."
  • (James Stewart) "Where's the doctor? Where's the undertaker?"

Grace Kelly as Lisa

  • (Grace Kelly) "Well, if there's one thing I know, it's how to wear the proper clothes."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Why would Thorwald want to kill a little dog? Because it knew too much?"
  • (Grace Kelly) "I'm not much on rear window ethics."
  • (Grace Kelly) "You can't ignore the wife dissapearing, and the trunk, and the jewelery."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "I checked the railroad station. Yesterday at 6:20 am, he bought a ticket. Ten minutes later, he put his wife on a train. Destination: Meritsville. I asure you, the witnesses are that deep."
  • (Grace Kelly) "That might have been a woman, but it couldn't have been Mrs. Thorwald. That jewelery --"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Look, Miss Fremont, that feminine intuition stuff sells magazines, but in real life it's still a fairy tale. I don't know how many times I chased down leads based on women's intuition."
  • (Grace Kelly) "The last thing Mrs. Thorwald would leave behind would be her wedding ring. Stella, do you ever leave yours at home?"
  • (Thelma Ritter) "The only way somebody would get that would be to chop off my; finger. Let's go down to the garden and find out what's buried there."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Why not? I always wanted to meet Mrs. Thorwald."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "Oh, Jeff, if you need any more help, consult the yellow pages in your telephone directory."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Oh, I love funny exit lines."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "What do you say we all sit down and have a nice friendly drink too, hmm? Forget all about this. We can tell lies about the good old days during the war."
  • (Grace Kelly) "So that's it? You're through with the case?"
  • (Lt. Doyle) "There is no case to be solved. There never was."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Today's a very special day."
  • (James Stewart) "It's just another run-of-the-mill Wednesday. The calendar's full of 'em."
  • (Grace Kelly) "What's a logical explanation for a woman taking a trip with no luggage?"
  • (James Stewart) "That she didn't know she was going on a trip and where she was going she wouldn't need any luggage."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Exactly."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Tell me exactly what you saw and what you think it means."
  • (Grace Kelly) "How's your leg?"
  • (James Stewart) "Hurts a little."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Your stomach?"
  • (James Stewart) "Empty as a football."
  • (Grace Kelly) "And your love life?"
  • (James Stewart) "Not too active."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Anything else bothering you?"
  • (James Stewart) "Uh-huh, who are you?"
  • (Grace Kelly) "Oh I love funny exiting lines."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known."
  • (Grace Kelly) "What's he doing? Cleaning house?"
  • (James Stewart) "He's washing and scrubbing down the bathroom walls."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Must've splattered a lot."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Come on, that's what were all thinkin'. He killed her in there, now he has to clean up those stains before he leaves."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Stella -- your choice of words."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killin' yet."
  • (Lt. Doyle) "How do you do?"
  • (Grace Kelly) "We think Thorwald's guilty."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Did Lt. Doyle think I stole this purse?"
  • (James Stewart) "No, Lisa, I don't think he did."
  • (Grace Kelly) "A woman never goes anywhere but the hospital without packing makeup, clothes, and jewelry."
  • (Grace Kelly) "A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window."
  • (Grace Kelly) "Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that?"
  • (James Stewart) "He gets it from the landlady once a month."
  • (Grace Kelly) "A steal at $1,100."
  • (James Stewart) "Eleven hundred? They ought to list that dress on the stock exchange."

Rand Harper and Havis Davenport as Newlywed man

  • (Newlywed woman) "-- but if you'd told me you quit your job, we wouldn't have gotten married."
  • (Rand Harper and Havis Davenport) "Oh, honey, come on."

Thelma Ritter as Stella

  • (Thelma Ritter) "He's gonna run out on her, the coward."
  • (James Stewart) "Sometimes it's worse to stay than it is to run."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "When I married Miles, we were both a couple of maladjusted misfits. We are still maladjusted misfits, and we have loved every minute of it."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse."
  • (James Stewart) "Oh, hello, Stella."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "And they got no windows in the workhouse."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "When two people love each other, they come together; WHAM; like two taxis on Broadway."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "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?"
  • (James Stewart) "Readers Digest, April 1939."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Well, I only quote from the best."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Every man's ready to get married when the right girl comes along."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Maybe one day she'll find her happiness."
  • (James Stewart) "Yeah, some man'll lose his."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "You'd think the rain would've cooled things down. All it did was make the heat wet."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Mind if I use that portable keyhole?"
  • (Thelma Ritter) "You heard of that market crash in '29? I predicted that."
  • (James Stewart) "Oh, just how did you do that, Stella?"
  • (Thelma Ritter) "Oh, simple. I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said. Nerves, I said. And I asked myself, "What's General Motors got to be nervous about?" Overproduction, I says; collapse. When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country's ready to let go."
  • (Thelma Ritter) "You haven't spent much time around cemeteries, have you?"
  • (Thelma Ritter) "I can hear you now: "Get out of my life, you wonderful woman. You're too good for me.""

Raymond Burr as Lars Thorwald

  • (Raymond Burr) "What do you want from me?"
  • (Raymond Burr) "Your friend, the girl, could have turned me in. Why didn't she?"
  • (Raymond Burr) "What do you want? A lot of money? I don't have any money."
  • (Raymond Burr) "Say something."
  • (Raymond Burr) "Say something. Tell me what you want."
  • (Raymond Burr) "Can you get me that ring back?"
  • (James Stewart) "No."
  • (Raymond Burr) "Tell her to bring it back."
  • (James Stewart) "I can't. The police have it by now."

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