Topper (1937)
Cary Grant: George Kerby
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Quotes
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Cosmo Topper : My wife objects to drinking.
George Kerby : Then she shouldn't drink.
Cosmo Topper : She doesn't.
George Kerby : What's her objection?
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Marion Kerby : Oh, George, I can see right through you.
George Kerby : Say, that's funny. I can see through you, too.
Marion Kerby : [seeing her body lying next to George's beside the car, which has just crashed] George, look. You know something George? I think we're dead.
George Kerby : I think you're right. Funny; I don't *feel* any different.
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George Kerby : Say, if I'm in the way, you folks could leave.
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George Kerby : My pet, resting's the sort of thing you've got to work up to gradually... very dangerous to rest all of a sudden.
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Marion Kerby : Hey, George, is this 10:30 in the morning?
George Kerby : No, this is Topper's bank.
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[George and Marion watch a drunk Topper laying on the floor, passed out]
Marion Kerby : I don't think he's ever had a drink in his life.
George Kerby : Poor Topper.
Marion Kerby : Poor Topper.
Cosmo Topper : [mutters] Poor Topper.
George Kerby : You keep out of this.
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[Topper reading annual report of his bank]
Cosmo Topper : Bullion abroad and in transit, thirteen million, two hundred and two thousand, eight hundred and fifty-four dollars and no cents.
George Kerby : No sense.
Cosmo Topper : I just said that, Mr. Kerby.
George Kerby : So did I.
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George Kerby : [goes to change Topper's flat tire] Well, I'll be darned if I waste any ectoplasm doing it.
[turns invisible]
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Cosmo Topper : [drunk] Well, that's how I dance. How do you like it?
George Kerby : [smiles and nods politely] Yes, I thought that was pretty - bad.
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Kerby, George : Say, if I'm in the way, you folks could leave.
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Casey : What's wrong here?
George Kerby : You are. Take a walk.
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George Kerby : Quiet, I'm practicing to be an angel.
Marion Kerby : Some angel you'd make.
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Marion Kerby : [the club owner closes the piano and sits on it to get the Kerbys to leave] Maybe the poor man's tired.
George Kerby : Oh, I don't know why he should be tired. We did all the singing.