Leo G. Carroll movie quotes

7 quotes from 3 movies

North by Northwest (1959) as The Professor

View Quote Roger: You're police, aren't you? Or is it FBI?
The Professor: FBI, CIA, ONI... we're all in the same alphabet soup.
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The Professor: [referring to Vandamm] Oh, you could say he is a sort of importer/exporter.
Roger: Of what?
The Professor: Oh, government secrets perhaps.

View Quote The Professor: If I thought there was any chance of changing your mind, I'd talk about Miss Kendall, of whom you so obviously disapprove.
Roger: Yes, for using sex like some people use a fly swatter.

View Quote Roger: I don't like the games you play, Professor.
The Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even when it's a cold one.
Roger: 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!
The Professor: I'm afraid we're already doing that.

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Spellbound (1945) as Dr. Murchison

View Quote [with his revolver pointed at Constance] You're an excellent analyst, Dr. Peterson, but a rather stupid woman.

View Quote The old must make way for the new, especially when the old is suspected of senility.

The Paradine Case (1947) as Sir Joseph

View Quote She had patience. She could wait. This was, indeed, no ordinary woman.