Clark Gable
(as Rhett Butler)
Cary Grant
(as Nick Arden)
Bianca Bates: Why didn't you tell them I'm their new mother?
Nick Arden: Didn't I do that??? Oh well, I didn't want to confuse them.
Nick Arden: Didn't I do that??? Oh well, I didn't want to confuse them.
From My Favorite Wife
Bette Davis
(as Charlotte Vale)
Charlotte: Dr. Jasquith says that tyranny is sometimes expression of the maternal instinct. If that's a mother's love, I want no part of it.
From Now, Voyager
Bette Davis
(as Charlotte Vale)
Charlotte: I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides.
From Now, Voyager
Emory Parnell
(as Mr. Tuerck)
Mr. Tuerck:
Women are always trying to take the blame for men - it's what you call the mother instinct.
W.C. Fields
(as Harold Bissonette)
[Harold ripped a pillow playing with the dog]
Amelia: Those were my mother's feathers!
Harold: Never knew your mother had feathers.
Amelia: Those were my mother's feathers!
Harold: Never knew your mother had feathers.
From It's a Gift
Katharine Hepburn
(as Eleanor of Aquitaine)
Anthony Perkins
(as Norman Bates)
Marion Crane:
Do you go out with friends?
Norman Bates: A boy's best friend is his mother.
Norman Bates: A boy's best friend is his mother.
From Psycho
James Cagney
(as Cody Jarrett)
Tony Curtis
(as Joe/Josephine)
Sugar:
If my mother could only see me now.
Josephine (Joe): I hope my mother never finds out.
Josephine (Joe): I hope my mother never finds out.
From Some Like It Hot
