Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Cary Grant: David Huxley
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Quotes
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Mrs. Random : Well who are you?
David Huxley : I don't know. I'm not quite myself today.
Mrs. Random : Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.
David Huxley : These aren't *my* clothes.
Mrs. Random : Well, where *are* your clothes?
David Huxley : I've *lost* my clothes!
Mrs. Random : But why are you wearing *these* clothes?
David Huxley : Because I just went *GAY* all of a sudden!
Mrs. Random : Now see here young man, stop this nonsense. What are you doing?
David Huxley : I'm sitting in the middle of 42nd Street waiting for a bus.
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David Huxley : You don't understand: this is *my* car!
Susan Vance : You mean *this* is your car? *Your* golf ball? *Your* car? Is there anything in the world that doesn't belong to you?
David Huxley : Yes, thank heaven, YOU!
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David Huxley : Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but - well, there haven't been any quiet moments.
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[David discovers the leopard in Susan's bathroom]
David Huxley : Susan, you have to get out of this apartment!
Susan Vance : I can't, I have a lease.
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David Huxley : When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run.
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[Susan is stealing David's car from the golf course]
Susan Vance : Now, don't lose your temper.
David Huxley : My dear young lady, I'm not losing my temper. I'm merely trying to play some golf!
Susan Vance : Well you choose the funniest places; this is a *parking-lot*.
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[In jail]
Susan Vance : Anyway, David, when they find out who we are they'll let us out.
David Huxley : When they find out who *you* are they'll pad the cell.
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[David and Susan have just discovered that Baby is missing]
David Huxley : Now don't lose your head, Susan.
Susan Vance : My what?
David Huxley : Don't lose your head!
Susan Vance : I've got my head, I've lost my leopard!
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[last lines]
Susan Vance : Oh, David, can you ever forgive me?
David Huxley : I... I... I...
Susan Vance : You can! And you still love me.
David Huxley : Susan, that... that...
Susan Vance : You do. Oh, David.
David Huxley : Oh, dear. Oh, my.
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Susan Vance : You've just had a bad day, that's all.
David Huxley : That's a masterpiece of understatement.
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David Huxley : [Susan is collecting pebbles] Susan, what are you doing?
Susan Vance : Pebbles.
David Huxley : Pebbles? What for?
Susan Vance : Well, I've heard that if you throw pebbles up against a window, the people think it's hail and then they come and close the windows.
David Huxley : I, I, I - Oh!
[Susan throws the pebbles and they loudly crash against Peabody's window]
David Huxley : Oh, I know we ought to go now, but somehow I can't move.
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Susan Vance : [Susan is pretending to be a gun moll who is turning on supposed mobster partner David Bone by exposing his supposed alias to Constable Slocum] You mean to say you don't remember 'Jerry the Nipper' ?
David Huxley : Constable she's making all this up out of motion pictures she's seen!
[Irene Dunne refers to Cary Grant as 'Jerry the Nipper' in 'The Awful Truth']
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David Huxley : My bone. It's rare. It's precious. What did you do with it?
Susan Vance : The bone!
David Huxley : Susan, you had it. Give it to me.
Susan Vance : No, I haven't got it.
David Huxley : Did you carry it somewhere?
Susan Vance : No, David. Why would I carry a bone around?
David Huxley : I wouldn't dare give a reason for anythting you do.
Susan Vance : Well, I guess you'll have to find another one.
David Huxley : It took three expeditions and five years to find that one!
Susan Vance : David, now that they know where to find one, couldn't you send them back to get another one?
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Susan Vance : You mean you want *me* to go home?
David Huxley : Yes.
Susan Vance : You mean you don't want me to help you any more?
David Huxley : No.
Susan Vance : After all the fun we've had?
David Huxley : Yes.
Susan Vance : And after all the things I've done for you?
David Huxley : That's what I mean.
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David Huxley : Alice I think this one must belong in the tail.
[referring to a bone he is holding]
Alice Swallow : Nonsense. You tried it in the tail yesterday, and it didn't fit.
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Susan Vance : Well, don't you worry, David, because if there's anything that I can do to help you, just let me know and I'll do it.
David Huxley : Well, er - don't do it until I let you know.
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[Susan is pretending to be a mobster]
David Huxley : Constable, she's making all this up out of motion pictures she's seen!
Susan Vance : Oh, I suppose I saw you with that red-headed skirt in a motion picture ?
Constable Slocum : There you are doc - another woman.
Susan Vance : Sure, I wouldn't be squealing if he hadn't give me the run-around with that other twist.
Constable Slocum : Oh, so he's a lady killer.
Susan Vance : A lady killer? Why he's a regular Don Swan. Loves the ladies, don't ya, honey? He bops them over, one, two, three - boom - just like that.
[Pretends to open a cork and toss it away]
Susan Vance : He's a wolf.
David Huxley : [Claps his head] Oh, so now I'm a wolf!
[Collapses on a cot]
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David Huxley : The only way you'll ever get me to follow another of your suggestions is to hold a bright object in front of my eyes and twirl it.
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David Huxley : How can all these things happen to just one person?
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Alice Swallow : Oh David, what have you done?
David Huxley : Just name anything, and I've done it.
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[repeated line]
David Huxley : I'll be with you in a minute, Mr. Peabody!
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Susan Vance : [watching George the dog dig up what they think is David's dinosaur bone] Oh, look, David, a boot.
David Huxley : [angrily] A boot.
[picks it up and makes like he's going to swing with it]
Susan Vance : Don't hit George, David.
David Huxley : I wasn't going to hit *George*!
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Susan Vance : I won't leave you, David! I love you!
David Huxley : What?
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Susan Vance : Oh, I'm caught on something - David, help me, will you?
David Huxley : Oh, no. That's poison ivy.
Susan Vance : I bet you wouldn't treat Miss Swallow this way.
David Huxley : I bet Miss Swallow knows poison ivy when she sees it.
Susan Vance : Yes, I bet poison ivy runs when it sees her.
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David Huxley : [David is trying to prove to Susan that she's playing his ball] You see, a PGA has two black dots and a Cro-Flight has a circle.
Susan Vance : Mm-hmm. I'm not superstitious about things like that.
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David Huxley : [Pointing to a mark on the golf ball Susan just sank] There you see, it's a circle.
Susan Vance : Well, of course it is, do you think it would roll if it were square?
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David Huxley : [David has just slipped on the olive Susan had dropped and he has fallen backward - sitting upon his hat] Well I might have known you were here. I had a feeling - just as I hit the floor.
Susan Vance : That was your hat.
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Susan Vance : You're angry, aren't you?
David Huxley : Yes, I am!
Susan Vance : Mm-hmm. The love impulse in man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.
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Susan Vance : Now that's all perfectly clear, isn't it?
Dr. Fritz Lehman : Yeah-No it *isn't* ! You see - she's going to give me an explanation...
David Huxley : No no no and my dear sir, it never *will* be clear, as long as she's explaining it!
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Mr. Gogarty : [Gogarty, David, and Susan are in jail] Miss Susan! How'd you get here?
David Huxley : Influence.
Susan Vance : Don't worry, Gogarty, I'll get you out.
David Huxley : Oh, sure. Look, she got me out.
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David Huxley : But Susan, you can't climb in a man's bedroom window!
Susan Vance : I know, it's on the second floor!
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David Huxley : My glasses! Don't move, Susan.
Susan Vance : Here they are. Oooh, they're broken. I'm so sorry.
David Huxley : It doesn't make any difference. The things I've been doing today, I can do just as well with my eyes shut.
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David Huxley : Susan, is there any way to cross this stream?
Susan Vance : Oh, surely it's shallow. We can wade across.
[they both walk into the stream, then fall in after the floor drops off]
David Huxley : Oh, Susan...
Susan Vance : The riverbed's changed!
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David Huxley : [on the phone] Yes, I did see Mr. Peabody, but I didn't see him. Well that is, I didn't see him really. Yes, I spoke to him twice, but I didn't talk to him.
Alice Swallow : But David, I don't understand. Did you see him or didn't you ?
David Huxley : Well - no I don't know - well how do I know ? well because - because - well there's someone at the door - you see there are some things that are very hard to explain, Alice.
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Alice Swallow : Now once and for all, David, *nothing* must interfere with your work. Our marriage must entail no domestic entanglements of any kind.
David Huxley : [Stammering nervously] You mean... you mean...
Alice Swallow : [Firmly] I mean of *any* kind, David.
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David Huxley : So if you don't mind, Susan, I'll see Mr. Peabody alone, and unarmed.
Susan Vance : Without me?
David Huxley : Yes, without you, and *definitely* without you.
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Susan Vance : Now please listen to me - you certainly can't think that I did that intentionally!
David Huxley : Well, if I *could* think, I'd have run when I saw you!
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Susan Vance : [Susan realizes that she has torn the back of her dress] Don't just stand there. Do something! Do something! Oh my goodness! Well, get behind me.
David Huxley : I *am* behind you.
Susan Vance : Well, get closer.
David Huxley : I can't *get* any closer!
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Susan Vance : [One the phone] Have you got a leopard?
David Huxley : No.
Susan Vance : Well, I've got a leopard, and you're a zoologist, so come over and help me.
Susan Vance : [pauses] Yes, David, of course I know what a zoologist is!
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Alice Swallow : You have an appointment this afternoon.
David Huxley : Have I? What for?
Alice Swallow : To play golf with Mr. Peabody.
David Huxley : What Peabody?
Alice Swallow : THE Alexander Peabody who represents Mrs. Carleton Random.
David Huxley : Now let me think.
Alice Swallow : Who may donate $1 million to the museum to complete all this.
David Huxley : Oh, sure! That Mr. Peabody. $1 million. That's pretty white of Mr. Peabody.
Alice Swallow : You haven't got it yet.
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Mrs. Random : What are you doing?
David Huxley : [exasperated and wearing Susan's negligee] I'm sitting in the middle of 42nd Street waiting for a bus!
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David Huxley : First you drop an olive, and then I sit on my hat. It all fits perfectly.
Susan Vance : Oh, yes, but you can't do that trick without dropping some of the olives; it takes practice.
David Huxley : What, to sit on my hat?
Susan Vance : No, to drop an olive.
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Susan Vance : [She brings David his intercostal clavicle] Look! I found your bone!
David Huxley : How did you find it?
Susan Vance : Well, I followed George around for three days. I dug holes with him, and he dug holes with me, and I found your bone!
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David Huxley : I don't like leopards!
Susan Vance : Well, just pretend he's a housecat.
David Huxley : I don't like cats, either.
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Mrs. Random : [after David answers the door to her dressed only in Susan's negligee] Well, who is he?
Susan Vance : Oh, he's a friend of Mark's, from brazil. He's had a nervous breakdown, and it's left him a little...
[Moves her hand in small circles next to her ear to indicate that David is insane]
David Huxley : [Under his breath] Oh, so now I'm a nut from Brazil!
Mrs. Random : Why is he wearing your negligee?
Susan Vance : Mark said that if he wants to wear a negligee, we have to let him wear a negligee.
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David Huxley : What would happen if Baby and George got together?
Susan Vance : They'd probably get along.
David Huxley : And if they didn't?
Susan Vance : Then Baby would eat George.
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Alice Swallow : You're just a butterfly.
David Huxley : Oh, so now I'm a butterfly!
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Susan Vance : [Reading aloud from letter] "He likes music, especially that song 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby'."
[Puts down letter, switches on record player]
Susan Vance : I wonder why he likes that song, it's such an old tune, and...
David Huxley : [Terrified] Susan, if we put the Victrola in the bathroom, would he go back in there?
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Prof. LaTouche : Good morning, Miss Swallow.
Alice Swallow : Shhh!
Prof. LaTouche : Why, what's the matter?
Alice Swallow : Shhh! Dr. Huxley is thinking
David Huxley : Alice, I think this one must belong in the tail.
Alice Swallow : Nonsense. You tried it in the tail yesterday and it didn't fit.
David Huxley : Yes, that's right. I did, didn't I?
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Prof. LaTouche : [the scene opens in a large room with a 30 foot skeletal brontosaurus that is surrounded by scaffolding. Dr. David Huxley, a renowned paleontologist is seated at the top of the scaffolding atop a walk-board at the head of the brontosaurus] Good morning, Miss Swallow.
Alice Swallow : Shhh!
Prof. LaTouche : Why, what's the matter?
Alice Swallow : Shhh! Dr. Huxley is thinking
David : Alice, I think this one must belong in the tail.
Alice Swallow : Nonsense. You tried it in the tail yesterday and it didn't fit.
David : Yes, that's right. I did, didn't I?
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Susan Vance : [From her car] Good morning, professor.
David Huxley : [Walking along the sidewalk, with the leopard trotting along beside] Good morning, ohhh.
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David Huxley : A million dollars! Say, that's pretty white of Mr. Peabody, isn't it?
