1- “Sorry love, I’m sentimental.” –Roger Thornhill, ‘North by Northwest’.
2- “I don’t like the way Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me.” –Roger Thornhill, ‘North by Northwest’.
3- “I didn’t realize you were an art collector. I thought you just collected corpses.” –Roger Thornhill, ‘North by Northwest’.
4- “I may go back to hating you. It was more fun.” –Roger Thornhill, ‘North by Northwest’.
5- “In the world of advertising, there’s no such thing as a lie. There’s only expedient exaggeration.” –Roger Thornhill, ‘North by Northwest’.
6- “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.” –Roger Thornhill, ‘North by Northwest’.
7- “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.” –Roger Thornhill, ‘North by Northwest’.
8- “You gentlemen aren’t REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?” –Clara Thornhill, ‘North by Northwest’.
9- “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.” –Phillip Vandamm,‘North by Northwest’.
10- “That wasn’t very sporting, using real bullets.” –Phillip Vandamm,‘North by Northwest’.
11- “Has anyone ever told you that you overplay your various roles rather severely, Mr. Kaplan?” –Phillip Vandamm,‘North by Northwest’.
12- “That’s funny, that plane’s dustin’ crops where there ain’t no crops.” –Man at Prairie Crossing, ‘North by Northwest’.
13- “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.” –‘North by Northwest’.
14- “Ticket Seller: Something wrong with your eyes?
Roger Thornhill: Yes, they’re sensitive to questions.” –‘North by Northwest’.
15- “Eve Kendall: Roger O. Thornhill. What does the O stand for?
Roger Thornhill: Nothing.” –‘North by Northwest’.
16- “Eve Kendall: I’m a big girl.
Roger Thornhill: Yeah, and in all the right places, too.” –‘North by Northwest’.
17- “Roger Thornhill: I don’t like the games you play, professor.
The Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even when it’s a cold one.” –‘North by Northwest’.
18- “Leonard: Your 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.” –‘North by Northwest’.
19- “Roger Thornhill: How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?
Eve Kendall: Lucky, I guess.” –‘North by Northwest’.
20- “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.” –‘North by Northwest’.
21- “Roger Thornhill: Now, what can a man do with his clothes off for twenty minutes? Couldn’t he have taken an hour?
Eve Kendall:You could always take a cold shower.” –‘North by Northwest’.
22- “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.” –‘North by Northwest’.
23- “Roger Thornhill: You’re police, aren’t you? Or is it FBI?
The Professor: FBI, CIA, ONI… we’re all in the same alphabet soup.” –‘North by Northwest’.
24- “[Roger is wearing sunglasses to hide his identity] Ticket Seller: Something wrong with your eyes?
Roger: Yes, they’re sensitive to questions.” –‘North by Northwest’.
25- “Roger Thornhill:When we get out of this, you can ride the train with me again.
Eve Kendall:Is that a proposition?
Roger Thornhill:It’s a proposal, sweetie!” –‘North by Northwest’.
26- “Eve Kendall: I want you to do a favor for me. A big, big favor.
Roger Thornhill: Name it.
Eve Kendall: I want you to leave right now, stay far away from me, and don’t come near me again. We’re not going to get involved. Last night was last night, and it’s all there was, and it’s all there is. There isn’t going to be anything more between us. So please. Goodbye, good luck, no conversation, just leave.” –‘North by Northwest’.
27- “Roger: 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.
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:Yes, for using sex like some people use a fly swatter.” –‘North by Northwest’.
28- “Roger: If we ever get out of this alive, let’s go back to New York on the train together, all right?
Eve: Is that a proposition?
Roger: It’s a proposal, sweetie.
Eve: What happened to the first two marriages?
Roger: My wives divorced me.
Eve: Why?
Roger: Well, I think they said I led too dull a life.” –‘North by Northwest’.
29- “Roger: To a long and lasting friendship, meaning from now on, I’m not going to let you out of my sight, sweetheart.
Eve:I’m afraid you’ll have to.
Roger:Oh no.
Eve:I do have plans of my own, you know, and you do have problems.
Roger:Well, wouldn’t it be nice if my problems and your plans were somehow connected? Then we could always stay close to each other and not have to go off in separate directions. Togetherness, you know what I mean?” –‘North by Northwest’.
30- “Roger: Now, what can a man do with his clothes off for twenty minutes? Couldn’t he have taken an hour?
Eve: You could always take a cold shower. [she takes off his jacket]
Roger: That’s right. When I was a little boy, I wouldn’t even let my mother undress me.
Eve: You’re a big boy now.
Roger: Yes, tell me. How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?
Eve: Lucky, I guess.
Roger: No, not lucky. Naughty, wicked, up to no good. Ever kill anyone? Because I bet you could tease a man to death without half trying. So stop trying, huh? ” –‘North by Northwest’.
31- “Roger: And what the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here?
Vandamm:Games, must we?
Roger:Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets for the theatre this evening, to a show I was looking forward to and I get, well, kind of unreasonable about things like that.
Vandamm:With such expert play-acting, you make this very room a theatre. My secretary is a great admirer of your methods, Mr. Kaplan. Elusiveness, however misguided …
Roger:My name is Thornhill, Roger Thornhill! It’s never been anything else … So obviously, your friends picked up the wrong package when they bundled me out here in the car.” –‘North by Northwest’.
32- “Leonard: You surely would have suspected. Why else would you have decided not to tell Miss Kendall why our little treasure here has a belly full of microfilm?
Phillip Vandamm: You seem to be trying to fill mine with rotten apples.
Leonard: Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms.
Phillip Vandamm: Truth? I’ve heard nothing but innuendos.
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.” –‘North by Northwest’.
33- “Phillip Vandamm: What possessed you to come blundering in here like this? Could it be an overpowering interest in art?
Roger Thornhill: Yes, the art of survival.
Eve Kendall: He followed me here from the hotel.
Leonard: He was in your room?
Roger Thornhill: Sure. Isn’t everybody?” –‘North by Northwest’.
34- “Roger Thornhill: What’s wrong with men like me?
Eve Kendall: They don’t believe in marriage.
Roger Thornhill: I’ve been married twice.
Eve Kendall: See what I mean?” –‘North by Northwest’.
35- “Eve Kendall: How do I know you aren’t a murderer?
Roger Thornhill: You don’t.
Eve Kendall: Maybe you’re planning to murder me right here, tonight.
Roger Thornhill: Shall I?
Eve Kendall: Please do.” –‘North by Northwest’.
36- “Roger Thornhill: The moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her.
Eve Kendall: What makes you think you have to conceal it?
Roger Thornhill: She might find the idea objectionable.”
Eve Kendall: Then again, she might not.” –‘North by Northwest’.
37- “Eve Kendall: It’s going to be a long night.
Roger Thornhill: True.
Eve Kendall: And I don’t particularly like the book I’ve started.
Roger Thornhill: Ah.
Eve Kendall: You know what I mean?
Roger Thornhill: Ah, let me think. Yes, I know exactly what you mean.” –‘North by Northwest’.
38- “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.” –‘North by Northwest’.
39- “Eve Kendall: I tipped the steward five dollars to seat you here if you should come in.
Roger Thornhill: Is that a proposition?
Eve Kendall: I never discuss love on an empty stomach.
Roger Thornhill: You’ve already eaten!
Eve Kendall: But you haven’t.” –‘North by Northwest’.
40- “Roger Thornhill: And what the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here?
Phillip Vandamm: Games, must we?
Roger Thornhill: Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets for the theater this evening, to a show I was looking forward to and I get, well, kind of *unreasonable* about things like that.
Phillip Vandamm: With such expert playacting, you make this very room a theater.” –‘North by Northwest’.
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