North by Northwest

Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.

Bureaucrat So horribly sad. How is it I feel like laughing?

Roger Thornhill is wearing sunglasses indoors. Ticket Seller (Ned Glass) Something wrong with your eyes? Roger Thornhill Yes, they're sensitive to questions.

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 (Eva Marie Saint) What makes you think you have to conceal it? Roger Thornhill She might find the idea objectionable. Eve Kendall Then again, she might not.

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.

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

Eve Kendall I'm a big girl. Roger Thornhill Yeah, and in all the right places, too.

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.

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.

Roger Thornhill He'll be right up. Eve Kendall Better take your things off. Roger Thornhill Now, 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.

Roger Thornhill How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you? Eve Kendall Lucky, I guess.

Philip Vandamm (James Mason) 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 (Martin Landau) He was in your room? Roger Thornhill Sure. Isn't everybody?

Roger Thornhill I didn't realize you were an art collector. I thought you only collected corpses.

Philip Vandamm Seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actors Studio. Roger Thornhill Apparently the only performance that'll satisfy you is when I play dead. Philip Vandamm Your very next role. You'll be quite convincing, I assure you.

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? Roger Thornhill I may go back to hating you. It was more fun.

Roger Thornhill I don't like the games you play, professor. The Professor (Leo G. Carroll) War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even when it's a cold one.

Philip Vandamm You seem to be trying to fill my mind with rotten apples. Leonard Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms. Philip Vandamm Truth? I've heard nothing but innuendos. Leonard Call it my women's intuition, if you will.

Philip Vandamm This matter is best disposed of from a great height, over water.