Cary Grant Movie Quotes           North by Northwest (1959)                 Cary Grant as Roger O. 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" killed.                     Mother, this is your son, 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.                     In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only the expedient exaggeration.                      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.                     Yes, for using sex like some people use a fly swatter.                     I may go back to hating you. It was more fun.                     Oh well, put "Something for your sweet tooth, baby, and all your other sweet parts".                     Apparently the only performance that will satisfy you is when I play dead.                     Now, what can a man do with his clothes off for twenty minutes? Couldn't he have taken an hour?                     Good, because honest women frighten me.                     What's wrong with men like me?                     The three of you together. Now, that's a picture only Charles Addams could draw.                     I think they said I led too dull a life.                     If you fellas can't lick the Vandamms of this world, without asking girls like her to bed down with him and fly away with him and probably never come back, perhaps you ought to start learning how to lose a few cold wars!                     Well, you lend a certain air of respectability.                     When I was a little boy, I wouldn't even let my mother undress me.                     I'd invite you to my bedroom if I had a bedroom.                     The moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her.                     You're the smartest girl I ever spent the night with on the train.                     I didn't realize you were an art collector. I thought you just collected corpses.