Bringing up Baby
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David Huxley: How can all these things happen to just one person?

David Huxley: But Susan, you can't climb in a man's bedroom window.
Susan Vance: I know, it's on the second floor.

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.

David Huxley: The only way you'll ever get me to follow another of your suggestions is to hold a bright object in front of my eyes and twirl it.

Susan Vance: You're angry, aren't you?
David Huxley: Yes, I am.
Susan Vance: Mm-hmm. The love impulse in man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.

Susan Vance: What would you say about a man who follows a girl around.
Dr. Fritz Lehman: Follows her around.
Susan Vance: ...And then when she talks to him, he fights with her?
Dr. Fritz Lehman: Fights with her... is the young man your fiance?

Alice Swallow: Oh David, what have you done?
David Huxley: Just name anything, and I've done it.

Susan Vance: I won't leave you, David! I love you.
David Huxley: What?

David Huxley: Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but - well, there haven't been any quiet moments.

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.

David Huxley: When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run.

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: Now that's all perfectly clear, isn't it?
Dr. Fritz Lehman: Yeah-No it isn't! You see - she's going to give me an explanation.
David Huxley: No no no and my dear sir, it never will be clear, as long as she's explaining it.

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.

Continuity mistake: In one of the early scenes where Baby, the pet leopard is introduced, you can tell that the scene was shot twice and overlapped. Baby's leash has an obvious gap in it, and the two halves move independently.

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