North by Northwest Quotes

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Eve Kendall: [Hanging by their fingers from Mount Rushmore] What happened with your first two marriages? Roger Thornhill: My wives divorced me. Eve Kendall: Why? Roger Thornhill: They said I led too dull a life.

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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" k...

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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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Clara Thornhill: You gentlemen aren't REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?

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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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[Thornhill is wearing sunglasses to hide his identity] Ticket Seller: Something wrong with your eyes? Roger Thornhill: Yes, they're sensitive to questions.

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Phillip Vandamm: Has anyone ever told you that you overplay your various roles rather severely, Mr. Kaplan?

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Phillip Vandamm: Mr. Kaplan, you are quite the performer. First you're the outraged Madison Avenue advertising executive who claims that he has been mistaken for someone else. Next, you play the fugitive from justice supposedly trying to clear himsel...

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Phillip Vandamm: That wasn't very sporting, using real bullets.

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Man at Prairie Crossing: That's funny, that plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.

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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: Th...

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Clara Thornhill: Roger... Pay the two dollars.

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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 y...

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Eve Kendall: Roger O. Thornhill. What does the O stand for? Roger Thornhill: Nothing.

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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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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 Tho...

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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?

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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. Roger Thornhill: If you fellows can't lick the VanDamm's of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with t...

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