The Moon's Our Home (1936)

Henry Fonda: Anthony Amberton, John Smith

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Quotes 

• Anthony Amberton : [after jumping into Cherry's carriage to escape a horde of female autograph hounds]  Don't you really know who I am?

  Cherry Chester : No. Just because you know who I am doesn't mean that I know who you are.

  Anthony Amberton : Well, I haven't any idea who you are.

  Cherry Chester : You mean you've never seen me before?

  Anthony Amberton : No. As a matter of fact, I'm sorry I haven't. You're rather attractive in an elementary sort of way.

  Cherry Chester : Can't you manage to be a little less personal?

• Anthony Amberton : I loathe women like that. Give me a simple, primitive woman with a small, high chest.

  Ogden Holbrook : Well, I'm only your publisher, but I'll see what I can do.

• Anthony Amberton : [Tipping the talkative train porter]  We'll swap travelogues in the morning. In the meantime I don't wanna see a single soul. Have my dinner in here.

• Anthony Amberton : Give me the simple, primitive woman with a small, high chest! A woman of long silences, consuming in love, enduring in marriage.

• Anthony Amberton : How do you like New York?

  Cherry Chester : I loathe it. I loathe all cities.

  Anthony Amberton : Fine. That's two of us.

• Anthony Amberton : It's the musk in that perfume I can't stand. Once I was marooned in a plague-ridden African village. Ever since then, the smell of musk knocks me cold.

• Train stenographer : We've got another celebrity on board, Mr. Amberton - Cherry Chester.

  Anthony Amberton : Cherry Chester? Nobody's named Cherry Chester. What is Cherry Chester - some kind of new soft drink?

  Train stenographer : She's a motion picture star.

  Anthony Amberton : Never go to pictures. Marshmallow-faced movie stars make me sick.

• Anthony Amberton : But head hunters - they're out in force.

  Ogden Holbrook : Mmm. But Cherry Chester came in on this train too.

  Anthony Amberton : Who?

  Ogden Holbrook : Well, you know...

  Anthony Amberton : Oh, that movie marshmallow... Yeah, she probably lives on this sort of thing.

• Anthony Amberton : [Looking at his wrist]  Somebody stole my watch.

  Cherry Chester : It's 27 minutes past three.

  Anthony Amberton : I'm late. I have to go.

  [He gets out of the carriage as it moves on, and leave the money she had given him thinking he was a poor thief out of work, and leaves a card of the lodgings he will be at in the mountains of New Hampshire] 

• Anthony Amberton : When marriage comes in the door, love flies out the window. Marriage is the mortgage a woman holds on a man's future. There shouldn't be any future to have, or any past. Only the present, the glorious present.

• Cherry Chester : If only I could be alone on a mountain top, with the sunshine, with the stars.

  Anthony Amberton : Listen to me. There's a destiny in this. I've been sent to save you. You've got to come with me.

  Cherry Chester : Come with...

  Anthony Amberton : No, don't speak. I'm going away. Far away from cites and people, and you've got to come with me.

  Cherry Chester : I don't...

  Anthony Amberton : You don't have to know my name. I don't have to know your name. All that matters is us - two free people with a world behind 'em.

• Anthony Amberton : All my life I've hated laws, conventions, regulations, marriage.

  Cherry Chester : Well, what's the matter with marriage?

  Anthony Amberton : It's so unimportant.

  Cherry Chester : You're mother and father didn't think so. Or, did they?

  Anthony Amberton : Well, theirs was a different generation.

• Anthony Amberton : [as Sarah struggles to get up after falling with her skis, stubbornly refusing his help]  A friend of mine spent three weeks once trying to get up. We had to feed her out of a bottle.

• Cherry Chester : Wait! Wait a minute. Have I told you about my temper?

  Anthony Amberton : I've had complaints about mine.

  Cherry Chester : We'll fight every day.

  Anthony Amberton : We'll make up every night.

  Cherry Chester : I'll leave you over and over again.

  Anthony Amberton : I'll always find you.

• Anthony Amberton : I don't say that marriage is perfect, but it's the only solution for the average woman.

  Cherry Chester : But I'm not an average woman. Would you have fallen in love with an average woman?

  Anthony Amberton : Certainly not! Would you have fallen in love with an average man?

  Cherry Chester : Certainly not! What makes you think I've fallen in love?

• Anthony Amberton : If you call making faces on the screen a career.

  Cherry Chester : What?

  Anthony Amberton : You certainly can't call it acting.

  Cherry Chester : I suppose you call that tripe you turn out writing?

  Anthony Amberton : Ah ha! So you've read my book?

  Cherry Chester : I started one.

  Anthony Amberton : What one?

  Cherry Chester : That masterpiece where you look down all six of the pyramids.

  Anthony Amberton : There are nine pyramids.

  Cherry Chester : Six!

  Anthony Amberton : Nine!

• Cherry Chester : Didn't you ever want to find me again?

  Anthony Amberton : Did you want to be found?

  Cherry Chester : Here I am.

  Anthony Amberton : Here you are. And if you think you'll ever get away again

  Cherry Chester : You think I ever want to get away again?

• Anthony Amberton : All I can say is, you're a stubborn, disagreeable little brat.

  Cherry Chester : And all I can say is you're a contemptable, nasty, ill-tempered conceited monster.

• Anthony Amberton , Cherry Chester : I married Sarah Brown, and now I find I'm the husband of Cherry Chester too. So what?

  Cherry Chester : I married John Smith and I find I'm the wife of Anthony Amberton besides. So what?

  Anthony Amberton : Darling, we're bigamists, do you mind?

  Cherry Chester : I love it.

• Anthony Amberton : If you can't get up, marry me. Is it a bet?

  Cherry Chester : It's a bet.

• Anthony Amberton : Haven't I seen you somewhere before?

  Cherry Chester : Possibly. I'm the girl you married once.

  Anthony Amberton : I knew it. I never forget a face.

• Anthony Amberton : Oh well, that's all taken care of.

  Cherry Chester : How's that?

  Anthony Amberton : Cause you're not going to marry him -- you're going to marry me.

  Cherry Chester : Eh, heh, are you proposing to me?

  Anthony Amberton : Of course I am, what'd you think I was doing?

  Cherry Chester : Well, thank you very much, but I can't.

  Anthony Amberton : Why not?

  Cherry Chester : Oh, I don't believe in marriage. The minute marriage comes in the door, love flies out the window.

  Anthony Amberton : Where did you get those half-baked ideas?

• Mitty Simpson : Aren't you going to bed?

  Anthony Amberton : Oh, we're low characters. Sometimes we stay up as late as half past nine.