Most-quoted role: Leon in Ninotchka (1939), 21 quotes
Movies Leon What kind of a girl are you anyway?
Just what you see. A tiny cog in the great wheel of evolution.
Leon You're the most adorable cog I've ever seen. Ninotchka, let me confess something. Never did I dream I could feel like this toward a sergeant.
I don't look too foolish?
Leon Foolish? If this dress were walking down the boulevard all by itself, I would follow it from one end of Paris to the other, and when I caught up with it, I would say, 'Wait a moment, you charming little dress. I want you to meet Ninotchka...you two were meant for each other.'
Radio. What's radio?
Leon Radio is a little box that you buy on the installment plan and before you tune it in, they tell you there's a new model out.
Homer Bannon It don't take long to kill things, not like it takes to grow.
Homer Bannon Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You're just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what's right and wrong.
Homer Bannon You don't care about people Hud, you don't give a damn about 'em. Oh, you got all that charm goin' for ya, and it makes the youngsters want to be like ya. That's the shame of it 'cause you don't value nothin', you don't respect nothin'. You keep no check on your appetites at all. You live just for yourself. And that makes you not fit to live with.
Karl Brettschneider Goodnight, gentlemen. Don't let the vampires get you.
