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Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Katharine Hepburn: Susan Vance

Bringing Up Baby

Katharine Hepburn credited as playing...

Susan Vance

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  • David Huxley: You don't understand: this is *my* car!
  • Susan Vance: You mean *this* is your car? *Your* golf ball? *Your* car? Is there anything in the world that doesn't belong to you?
  • David Huxley: Yes, thank heaven, YOU!
  • [reading letter about new leopard]
  • Susan Vance: "He's three years old, gentle as a kitten, and likes dogs." I wonder whether Mark means that he eats dogs or is fond of them?
  • [David discovers the leopard in Susan's bathroom]
  • David Huxley: Susan, you have to get out of this apartment!
  • Susan Vance: I can't, I have a lease.
  • [In jail]
  • Susan Vance: Anyway, David, when they find out who we are they'll let us out.
  • David Huxley: When they find out who *you* are they'll pad the cell.
  • [Susan is stealing David's car from the golf course]
  • Susan Vance: Now, don't lose your temper.
  • David Huxley: My dear young lady, I'm not losing my temper. I'm merely trying to play some golf!
  • Susan Vance: Well you choose the funniest places; this is a *parking-lot*.
  • [David and Susan have just discovered that Baby is missing]
  • David Huxley: Now don't lose your head, Susan.
  • Susan Vance: My what?
  • David Huxley: Don't lose your head!
  • Susan Vance: I've got my head, I've lost my leopard!
  • [last lines]
  • Susan Vance: Oh, David, can you ever forgive me?
  • David Huxley: I... I... I...
  • Susan Vance: You can! And you still love me.
  • David Huxley: Susan, that... that...
  • Susan Vance: You do. Oh, David.
  • David Huxley: Oh, dear. Oh, my.
  • Susan Vance: You've just had a bad day, that's all.
  • David Huxley: That's a masterpiece of understatement.
  • David Huxley: [Susan is collecting pebbles] Susan, what are you doing?
  • Susan Vance: Pebbles.
  • David Huxley: Pebbles? What for?
  • Susan Vance: Well, I've heard that if you throw pebbles up against a window, the people think it's hail and then they come and close the windows.
  • David Huxley: I, I, I - Oh!
  • [Susan throws the pebbles and they loudly crash against Peabody's window]
  • David Huxley: Oh, I know we ought to go now, but somehow I can't move.
  • David Huxley: My bone. It's rare. It's precious. What did you do with it?
  • Susan Vance: The bone!
  • David Huxley: Susan, you had it. Give it to me.
  • Susan Vance: No, I haven't got it.
  • David Huxley: Did you carry it somewhere?
  • Susan Vance: No, David. Why would I carry a bone around?
  • David Huxley: I wouldn't dare give a reason for anythting you do.
  • Susan Vance: Well, I guess you'll have to find another one.
  • David Huxley: It took three expeditions and five years to find that one!
  • Susan Vance: David, now that they know where to find one, couldn't you send them back to get another one?
  • [Limping after losing a heel from one shoe]
  • Susan Vance: I was born on the side of a hill.
  • Susan Vance: [Susan is pretending to be a gun moll who is turning on supposed mobster partner David Bone by exposing his supposed alias to Constable Slocum] You mean to say you don't remember 'Jerry the Nipper' ?
  • David Huxley: Constable she's making all this up out of motion pictures she's seen!
  • [Irene Dunne refers to Cary Grant as 'Jerry the Nipper' in 'The Awful Truth']
  • Susan Vance: You mean you want *me* to go home?
  • David Huxley: Yes.
  • Susan Vance: You mean you don't want me to help you any more?
  • David Huxley: No.
  • Susan Vance: After all the fun we've had?
  • David Huxley: Yes.
  • Susan Vance: And after all the things I've done for you?
  • David Huxley: That's what I mean.
  • Susan Vance: Well, don't you worry, David, because if there's anything that I can do to help you, just let me know and I'll do it.
  • David Huxley: Well, er - don't do it until I let you know.
  • [Susan is pretending to be a mobster]
  • David Huxley: Constable, she's making all this up out of motion pictures she's seen!
  • Susan Vance: Oh, I suppose I saw you with that red-headed skirt in a motion picture ?
  • Constable Slocum: There you are doc - another woman.
  • Susan Vance: Sure, I wouldn't be squealing if he hadn't give me the run-around with that other twist.
  • Constable Slocum: Oh, so he's a lady killer.
  • Susan Vance: A lady killer? Why he's a regular Don Swan. Loves the ladies, don't ya, honey? He bops them over, one, two, three - boom - just like that.
  • [Pretends to open a cork and toss it away]
  • Susan Vance: He's a wolf.
  • David Huxley: [Claps his head] Oh, so now I'm a wolf!
  • [Collapses on a cot]
  • Susan Vance: There *is* a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.
  • Susan Vance: [watching George the dog dig up what they think is David's dinosaur bone] Oh, look, David, a boot.
  • David Huxley: [angrily] A boot.
  • [picks it up and makes like he's going to swing with it]
  • Susan Vance: Don't hit George, David.
  • David Huxley: I wasn't going to hit *George*!
  • Susan Vance: I won't leave you, David! I love you!
  • David Huxley: What?
  • Mrs. Random: Who is this David?
  • Susan Vance: He's a friend of Mark's.
  • Mrs. Random: Is that all you know about him?
  • Susan Vance: No, I know that I'm gonna marry him. He doesn't know it but I am.
  • Mrs. Random: Now see here, if you're planning to marry him on my money you are very much mistaken. I don't want another lunatic in the family I have lunatics enough all ready. When are you going to marry him? What's his name?
  • Susan Vance: It's uh Bone
  • Mrs. Random: Bones ?
  • Susan Vance: One Bone
  • Mrs. Random: Well one bone or two bones it's a ridiculous name.
  • Mrs. Random: What does he do?
  • Susan Vance: He hunts
  • Mrs. Random: Hunts? Hunts what?
  • Susan Vance: Well - animals I should think.
  • Susan Vance: Oh, I'm caught on something - David, help me, will you?
  • David Huxley: Oh, no. That's poison ivy.
  • Susan Vance: I bet you wouldn't treat Miss Swallow this way.
  • David Huxley: I bet Miss Swallow knows poison ivy when she sees it.
  • Susan Vance: Yes, I bet poison ivy runs when it sees her.

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