North by Northwest Quotes (1959)

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Roger Thornhill 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.
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Roger Thornhill 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.
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Roger Thornhill In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.
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Ticket Seller Something wrong with your eyes?
Roger Thornhill Yes, they're sensitive to questions.
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Eve Kendall I'm a big girl.
Roger Thornhill Yeah, and in all the right places, too.
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Roger Thornhill Apparently the only performance that will satisfy you is when I play dead.
Phillip Vandamm Your very next role, and you'll be quite convincing, I assure you.
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Phillip Vandamm That wasn't very sporting, using real bullets.
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The Professor If I thought there was any chance of changing your mind, I'd talk about Miss Kendall, of whom you so obviously disapprove.
Roger Thornhill Yes, for using sex like some people use a flyswatter.
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Roger Thornhill How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?
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Roger Thornhill I don't like the way Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me.
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Eve Kendall What happened with your first two marriages?
Roger Thornhill My wives divorced me.
Eve Kendall Why?
Roger Thornhill They said I led a dull life.
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Roger Thornhill When I was a little boy, I wouldn't even let my mother undress me.
Eve Kendall Well, you're a big boy now.
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Roger Thornhill I may go back to hating you. It was more fun.
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Leonard Call it my women's intuition, if you will. But I've never trusted neatness. Neatness has always been the form of very deliberate planning.
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Leonard You're not taking her on the plane with you?
Phillip Vandamm 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.
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Roger Thornhill I didn't realize you were an art collector. I thought you just collected corpses.
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The Professor FBI, CIA, ONI... we're all in the same alphabet soup.
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Phillip Vandamm 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.
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Eve Kendall You've got taste in clothes, taste in food.
Roger Thornhill Hmm, And taste in women. I like your flavor.
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Eve Kendall Patience is a virtue.
Roger Thornhill So is breathing.
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Roger Thornhill Well, didn't you hear what I said? I want to be taken to police headquarters. I'm a dangerous assassin, I'm a mad killer on the loose!
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Roger Thornhill Handle with care, fellas. I'm valuable property.
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The Professor War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even when it's a cold one.
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Roger Thornhill (On phone) Tomorrow morning, he says. I dunno, I'll ask him. (To policeman) She wants to know who says.
Sergeant Emile Klinger Sergeant Emile Klinger.
Roger Thornhill (On phone) Sergeant Emile...Emile! Sergeant Emile Klinger. No, I didn't believe it either!
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Roger Thornhill We'll get 'em. We'll throw the book at 'em. Assault and kidnapping. Assault with a gun and a bourbon and a sports car. We'll get 'em.
  • In today's dollars
    Domestic $13,275,000
  • = total worldwide gross $13,275,000
  • - a reported budget of $4,000,000
  • = a 231.9% net profit of $9,275,000
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