Baron Oh, you're a little stenographess?
Yes, I'm a little stenographess.
Baron Fascinating. I don't suppose you'd, uh, take some dictation from me sometime, would you?
Played by John Barrymore 
Grand Hotel (1932) · 15 quotes
Grand Hotel (1932) · 15 quotes
Tied for most-quoted character in Grand Hotel (1932): in 5 of its 15 quotes
Most scenes with: Grusinskaya (3), Flaemmchen (2)
Scenes with Baron
5 scenes Baron Baron 
Who are you?
Baron Someone who could love you, that's all. Someone who's forgotten everything else but you.
You could love me?
Baron I've never seen anything in my life as beautiful as you are.
Can you imagine a hundred girls in the ballet school, each thinking she would become the most famous dancer in all the world? I was ambitious then. We were drilled like little soldiers. No rest, no stopping. I was little, slim, but hard as a diamond. Then I became famous and - But why am I telling you all this? Last night, I didn't know you at all. Who are you, really?
Baron What?
I don't even know your name.
Baron [laughs]
I am Felix Benvenuto Freihern von Geigern. My mother called me "Flix".
[joyously]
No! Flix! Oh, that's sweet. And how do you live? And what kind of a person are you?
Baron I'm a prodigal son, the black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
Baron You're so beautiful. It tore my heart to see you in despair like that...Please don't cry any more...I'd no idea you were so beautiful. I'd like to take you in my arms, and not let anything happen to you, ever...I've never seen anything in my life as beautiful as you are....
Baron I'm not going. You know I'm not going. Oh, please let me stay.
But I want to be alone.
Baron That isn't true. You don't want to be alone. You were in despair just now. I can't leave you now. You, you musn't cry any more. You must forget. Let me stay just for a little while. Ah, please let me stay.
For just a minute, then.
Bolded portion is ranked #30 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
Baron [looking down from the sixth-floor balcony over the front desk]
You know, I've often wondered what'd happen to that old porter if somebody jumped on him from here.
I'm sure I don't know. Why don't you try it and find out?
