Gregory Anton Jewels are wonderful things. They have a life of their own.
Played by Charles Boyer 
Gaslight (1944) · 15 quotes
Gaslight (1944) · 15 quotes
Most-quoted character in Gaslight (1944): in 9 of its 15 quotes
Most scenes with: Paula Alquist Anton (2), Cameron (2)
I don't ask you to understand me. Between us all the time were those jewels, like a fire - a fire in my brain that separated us - those jewels which I wanted all my life. I don't know why...Goodbye, Paula.
More lines from Gregory Anton
2 quotes Gregory Anton Gregory Anton I know you never lie to me. I believe you. You're not lying. It's worse than lying. You've forgotten. You've forgotten him as you forget everything. But perhaps I'm wrong to try to handle this myself. The case is one for people who know about those things.
Scenes with Gregory Anton
6 scenes
It's all dead in here. The whole place seems to smell of death. No, I can't stay here.
Gregory Suppose we make it a new house, with new things, beautiful things for a new beautiful life for us? Later, yes, but not just at once. Let us have our honeymoon here by ourselves for a little longer.
Gregory You're looking very pretty this afternoon, Nancy. Do you know that?
Nancy I don't know it at all, sir, I'm sure.
Gregory Tonight is your night out, isn't it?
Nancy That's right, sir.
Gregory And who are you meeting tonight?...I see they've changed the policeman on the beat. Is his heart going to be added to the list of those you've broken?
Nancy I did not broken any, sir.
Gregory Oh, now, I'm sure that's not true. And that complexion of yours. That's something that's not quite true, either. Oh, you do it very cleverly, I grant you. In fact, I was wondering whether you might not care to pass some of your secrets on to your mistress and help her get rid of her pallor.
Nancy Sure, I'd be very pleased to do anything I can, sir.
Nancy Gonna work on your tunes again tonight, sir? You're always working, aren't you?
Gregory Yes. What are you doing with your evening out?
Nancy Oh, I'm going to a music hall...[She begins singing 'Up in a balloon']
Gregory I've never been to an English music hall.
Nancy Oh, you don't know what you've missed, sir...
Gregory And whom are you going to the music hall with?
Nancy A gentleman friend, sir.
Gregory Oh, now, you know, Nancy, don't you, that gentlemen friends are sometimes inclined to take liberties with young ladies?
Nancy Oh, no, sir, not with me. I can take care of myself - when I want to.
Gregory You know, Nancy, it strikes me that you're not at all the kind of girl that your mistress should have for a housemaid.
Nancy [flirtatiously]
No, sir? She's not the only one in the house - is she?
Gregory I've tried so hard to keep it within these walls - in my own house. Now, because you would go out tonight, the whole of London knows it. If I could only get inside that brain of yours and understand what makes you do these crazy, twisted things.
Gregory, are you trying to tell me I'm insane?
Gregory It's what I'm trying NOT to tell myself.
But that's what you think, isn't it? That's what you've been hinting and suggesting for months now, ever since...the day I lost your brooch. That's when it all began. No, no, no, it began before that. The first day here when I found that letter. :[Gregory stops and abruptly turns]
Gregory What letter?
That one I found among the music from that man...
Gregory Yes, you're right. That's when it began...I can see you still, standing there and saying, 'Look. Look at this letter.' And staring at nothing.
What?
Gregory You had NOTHING in your hand.
What?
Gregory I was staggered, but I didn't know then how much reason I had to be...
I don't know. What dream?
Gregory I didn't know that about your mother.
What about my mother?
Gregory Your mother was mad.
Gregory.
Gregory She died in an asylum when you were a year old.
That's not true!
Gregory It began with her imagining things, that she heard noises, footsteps, voices, and then the voices began to speak to her. And in the end, she died in an asylum with no brain at all.
Gregory I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to me.
I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to her.
Gregory For the last time, what do you want of me?
The jewels - and justice. How does it feel, Bauer, to have planned and killed and tortured for something and then to know it's been for nothing?
Gregory For nothing?