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Rebecca (1940 film) Quotes

Rebecca (1940 film) is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Rebecca ended its run in 1970.

It features David O. Selznick as producer, Franz Waxman in charge of musical score, and George Barnes (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Rebecca (1940 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Rebecca (1940 film) is 130 minutes long. Rebecca (1940 film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers, Florence Bates as Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper, George Sanders as Jack Favell, Nigel Bruce as Major Giles Lacy, and C. Aubrey Smith as Colonel Julyan.

Rebecca (1940 film) Quotes

Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers

  • (Judith Anderson) "I watched you go down just as I watched her a year ago. Even in the same dress you couldn't compare."
  • (The Second Mrs. de Winter) "You knew it. You knew that she wore it, and yet you deliberately suggested I wear it. Why do you hate me? What have I done to you that you should ever hate me so?"
  • (Judith Anderson) "You tried to take her place. You let him marry you. I've seen his face; his eyes. They're the same as those first weeks after she died. I used to listen to him, walking up and down, up and down, all night long, night after night, thinking of her, suffering torture because he lost her."
  • (The Second Mrs. de Winter) "I don't want to know, I don't want to know."
  • (Judith Anderson) "You thought you could be Mrs. de Winter, live in her house, walk in her steps, take the things that were hers. But she's too strong for you. You can't fight her; no one ever got the better of her. Never, never. She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman. It was the sea."
  • (The Second Mrs. de Winter) "Oh, stop it. Stop it. Oh, stop it."
  • (Judith Anderson) "You're overwrought, madam. I've opened a window for you. A little air will do you good."
  • (Judith Anderson) "Why don't you go? Why don't you leave Manderley? He doesn't need you -- he's got his memories. He doesn't love you, he wants to be alone again with her. You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you?"
  • (Judith Anderson) "Look down there. It's easy, isn't it? Why don't you? Why don't you? Go on. Go on. Don't be afraid --"
  • (Judith Anderson) "Oh, you've moved her brush, haven't you?"
  • (Judith Anderson) "There, that's better. Just as she always laid it down. "Come on, Danny, hair drill," she would say."
  • (Judith Anderson) "And I'd stand behind her like this and brush away for twenty minutes at a time."
  • (Judith Anderson) "Then she would say, "Good night, Danny," and step into her bed."
  • (Judith Anderson) "She knew everyone that mattered. Everyone loved her."
  • (Judith Anderson) "You wouldn't think she'd been gone so long, would you? Sometimes, when I walk along the corridor, I fancy I hear her just behind me. That quick light step, I couldn't mistake it anywhere. It's not only in this room, it's in all the rooms in the house. I can almost hear it now."
  • (Judith Anderson) "Do you think the dead come back and watch the living?"
  • (The Second Mrs. de Winter) "N-no, I don't believe it."
  • (Judith Anderson) "Sometimes, I wonder if she doesn't come back here to Manderley, to watch you and Mr. de Winter together. You look tired. Why don't you stay here a while and rest, and listen to the sea? It's so soothing. Listen to it."
  • (Judith Anderson) "Listen. Listen to the sea."
  • (Judith Anderson) "Did you ever see anything so delicate?"
  • (Judith Anderson) "Look, you can see my hand through it."
  • (Judith Anderson) "Go ahead. Jump. He never loved you, so why go on living? Jump and it will all be over --"

Florence Bates as Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper

  • (Florence Bates) "Tennis lessons my foot."
  • (Florence Bates) "THe trouble is, wiith me laid up like this, you haven't had enough to do."
  • (Florence Bates) "Tennis lessons my foot."

George Sanders as Jack Favell

  • (Policeman) "Is this your car, sir ?"
  • (George Sanders) "Yes."
  • (Policeman) "Will you be going soon ? This isn't a parking place, you know."
  • (George Sanders) "Oh, isn't it ? People are entitled -- to leave their cars outside if they want to. It's a pity some of you fellows haven't anything better to do."
  • (George Sanders) "I'd like to have your advice on how to live comfortably without hard work."
  • (George Sanders) "You know, old boy, I have a strong feeling -- that before the day is out, somebody's going to make use of that -- rather expressive, though somewhat old-fashioned term ''foul play.''"
  • (George Sanders) "I say, marriage with Max is not exactly a bed of roses, is it?"

Nigel Bruce as Major Giles Lacy

  • (Nigel Bruce) "Strong man, Old man."

C. Aubrey Smith as Colonel Julyan

  • (C. Aubrey Smith) "Well, let me tell you something, Favell: blackmail isn't so pure nor so simple, and it brings a great deal of trouble to a great many people before it's through, and we know how to deal with it in our part of the world. And, sometimes, the blackmailer finds himself in jail at the end of it."

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