Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Katharine Hepburn: Susan Vance

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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!

• [reading letter about new leopard] 

  Susan Vance : "He's three years old, gentle as a kitten, and likes dogs." I wonder whether Mark means that he eats dogs or is fond of them?

• [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.

• [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*.

• [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.

• [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!

• [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.

• Susan Vance : You've just had a bad day, that's all.

  David Huxley : That's a masterpiece of understatement.

• 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.

• 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'] 

• 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?

• 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.

• [Limping after losing a heel from one shoe] 

  Susan Vance : I was born on the side of a hill.

• 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.

• [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] 

• Susan Vance : There *is* a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.

• 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*!

• Susan Vance : I won't leave you, David! I love you!

  David Huxley : What?

• Mrs. Random : Who is this David?

  Susan Vance : He's a friend of Mark's.

  Mrs. Random : Is that all you know about him?

  Susan Vance : No, I know that I'm gonna marry him. He doesn't know it but I am.

  Mrs. Random : Now see here, if you're planning to marry him on my money you are very much mistaken. I don't want another lunatic in the family I have lunatics enough all ready. When are you going to marry him? What's his name?

  Susan Vance : It's uh Bone

  Mrs. Random : Bones ?

  Susan Vance : One Bone

  Mrs. Random : Well one bone or two bones it's a ridiculous name.

  Mrs. Random : What does he do?

  Susan Vance : He hunts

  Mrs. Random : Hunts? Hunts what?

  Susan Vance : Well - animals I should think.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• Mrs. Random : [Mrs. Random finds David and Susan running out of the house]  Susan Susan - come back here - come back here this minute! What are you doing?

  Susan Vance : Hunting for George.

  Mrs. Random : Why?

  Susan Vance : [In a rush]  David wants him, David loves him, David thinks he's such a nice dog.

  Mrs. Random : George is a fiend and you know it!

  Susan Vance : But David doesn't.

• David Huxley : But Susan, you can't climb in a man's bedroom window!

  Susan Vance : I know, it's on the second floor!

• 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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!

• 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!

• 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!

• Susan Vance : What would you say about a man who follows a girl around...

  Dr. Fritz Lehman : Follows her around...

  Susan Vance : ...And then when she talks to him, he fights with her?

  Dr. Fritz Lehman : Fights with her... is the young man your fiance?

• Dr. Fritz Lehman : Well, the love impulse in men very frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.

  Susan Vance : [Excitedly]  The love impulse!

  Dr. Fritz Lehman : Without my knowing anything about it, my rough guess would be, that he has a fixation on you, a fixation...

  Susan Vance : No no wait a minute, I can't remember any more than that!

• Susan Vance : [to David]  You know why you're following me? You're a fixation.

• 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.

• Mrs. Random : Well, what does he do?

  Susan Vance : He's a big game hunter.

  Mrs. Random : [She sees David chasing George around]  You call that big game hunting?

• 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!

• David Huxley : I don't like leopards!

  Susan Vance : Well, just pretend he's a housecat.

  David Huxley : I don't like cats, either.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?

• Constable Slocum : Say, hold on, you fool. You can't spell "leopard" with a "U".

  Elmer : How do you spell it?

  Susan Vance : Double "U".

  Constable Slocum : Double "U".

• Susan Vance : [From her car]  Good morning, professor.

  David Huxley : [Walking along the sidewalk, with the leopard trotting along beside]  Good morning, ohhh.

• Dr. Fritz Lehman : [unable to toss olive in his mouth] 

  Susan Vance : [sees Fritz miss his mouth with an olive toss]  ... ..missed!