Rear Window Quotes
Lisa: How's your leg?
Jeff: Hurts a little.
Lisa: Your stomach?
Jeff: Empty as a football.
Lisa: And your love life?
Jeff: Not too active.
Lisa: Anything else bothering you?
Jeff: Uh-huh, who are you?
Jeff: Hurts a little.
Lisa: Your stomach?
Jeff: Empty as a football.
Lisa: And your love life?
Jeff: Not too active.
Lisa: Anything else bothering you?
Jeff: Uh-huh, who are you?
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Lisa: I wish I were creative.
Jeff: You are. You're great at creating difficult situations.
Jeff: You are. You're great at creating difficult situations.
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Lt. Doyle: What do you say we all sit down and have a nice friendly drink too, hmm? Forget all about this. We can tell lies about the good old days during the war.
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Stella: He's gonna run out on her, the coward.
Jeff: Sometimes it's worse to stay than it is to run.
Jeff: Sometimes it's worse to stay than it is to run.
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Stella: When two people love each other, they come together - WHAM - like two taxis on Broadway.
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Stella: Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
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Stella : When two people love each other, they come together - WHAM - like two taxis on Broadway.
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Lisa : How's your leg?
Jeff : Hurts a little.
Lisa : Your stomach?
Jeff : Empty as a football.
Lisa : And your love life?
Jeff : Not too active.
Lisa : Anything else bothering you?
Jeff : Uh-huh, who are you?
Jeff : Hurts a little.
Lisa : Your stomach?
Jeff : Empty as a football.
Lisa : And your love life?
Jeff : Not too active.
Lisa : Anything else bothering you?
Jeff : Uh-huh, who are you?
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Jeff : She wants me to marry her.
Stella : That's normal.
Jeff : I don't want to.
Stella : That's abnormal.
Stella : That's normal.
Jeff : I don't want to.
Stella : That's abnormal.
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Lisa : Today's a very special day.
Jeff : It's just another run-of-the-mill Wednesday. The calendar's full of 'em.
Jeff : It's just another run-of-the-mill Wednesday. The calendar's full of 'em.
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Jeff : When am I going to see you again?
Lisa : [ angry ] Not for a long time... [ softening ]
Lisa : at least not until tomorrow night.
Lisa : [ angry ] Not for a long time... [ softening ]
Lisa : at least not until tomorrow night.
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Jeff : Why would a man leave his apartment three times on a rainy night with a suitcase and come back three times?
Lisa : He likes the way his wife welcomes him home.
Lisa : He likes the way his wife welcomes him home.
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Lisa : I wish I were creative.
Jeff : You are. You're great at creating difficult situations.
Jeff : You are. You're great at creating difficult situations.
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Jeff : [ into the phone ] He killed a dog last night because the dog was scratching around in the garden. You know why? Because he had something buried in that garden that the dog scented.
Lt. Doyle : [ voice ] Like an old hambone?
Jeff : I don't know what pet names Thorwald had for his wife.
Lt. Doyle : [ voice ] Like an old hambone?
Jeff : I don't know what pet names Thorwald had for his wife.
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Lisa : The last thing Mrs. Thorwald would leave behind would be her wedding ring. Stella, do you ever leave yours at home?
Stella : The only way somebody would get that would be to chop off my - finger. Let's go down to the garden and find out what's buried there.
Lisa : Why not? I always wanted to meet Mrs. Thorwald.
Stella : The only way somebody would get that would be to chop off my - finger. Let's go down to the garden and find out what's buried there.
Lisa : Why not? I always wanted to meet Mrs. Thorwald.
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Jeff : Those two yellow zinnias at the end, they're shorter now. Now since when do flowers grow shorter over the course of two weeks? Something's buried there.
Lisa : Mrs. Thorwald!
Stella : You haven't spent much time around cemeteries, have you? It's impossible that Mr. Thorwald could bury his wife in a hole the size of one square foot. Unless he put her in standing on end, in which case he wouldn't need the knives and saw.
Lisa : Mrs. Thorwald!
Stella : You haven't spent much time around cemeteries, have you? It's impossible that Mr. Thorwald could bury his wife in a hole the size of one square foot. Unless he put her in standing on end, in which case he wouldn't need the knives and saw.
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Lisa : A woman never goes anywhere but the hospital without packing makeup, clothes, and jewelry.
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Lisa : What's a logical explanation for a woman taking a trip with no luggage?
Jeff : That she didn't know she was going on a trip and where she was going she wouldn't need any luggage.
Lisa : Exactly.
Jeff : That she didn't know she was going on a trip and where she was going she wouldn't need any luggage.
Lisa : Exactly.
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Stella : Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
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Lisa : You can't ignore the wife dissapearing, and the trunk, and the jewelery.
Lt. Doyle : I checked the railroad station. Yesterday at 6: 20 am, he bought a ticket. Ten minutes later, he put his wife on a train. Destination: Meritsville. I asure you, the witnesses are that deep.
Lisa : That might have been a woman, but it couldn't have been Mrs. Thorwald. That jewelery...
Lt. Doyle : Look, Miss Fremont, that feminine intuition stuff sells magazines, but in real life it's still a fairy tale. I don't know how many times I chased down leads based on women's intuition.
Lt. Doyle : I checked the railroad station. Yesterday at 6: 20 am, he bought a ticket. Ten minutes later, he put his wife on a train. Destination: Meritsville. I asure you, the witnesses are that deep.
Lisa : That might have been a woman, but it couldn't have been Mrs. Thorwald. That jewelery...
Lt. Doyle : Look, Miss Fremont, that feminine intuition stuff sells magazines, but in real life it's still a fairy tale. I don't know how many times I chased down leads based on women's intuition.
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Lisa : Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known.
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Lisa : What's he doing? Cleaning house?
Jeff : He's washing and scrubbing down the bathroom walls.
Stella : Must've splattered a lot. [ both Jeff and Lisa look at Stella with disgust ]
Stella : Come on, that's what were all thinkin'. He killed her in there, now he has to clean up those stains before he leaves.
Lisa : Stella... your choice of words!
Stella : Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killin' yet.
Jeff : He's washing and scrubbing down the bathroom walls.
Stella : Must've splattered a lot. [ both Jeff and Lisa look at Stella with disgust ]
Stella : Come on, that's what were all thinkin'. He killed her in there, now he has to clean up those stains before he leaves.
Lisa : Stella... your choice of words!
Stella : Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killin' yet.
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Stella : We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?
Jeff : Readers Digest, April 1939.
Stella : Well, I only quote from the best.
Jeff : Readers Digest, April 1939.
Stella : Well, I only quote from the best.
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Stella : You'd think the rain would've cooled things down. All it did was make the heat wet.
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Jeff : [ Lisa wants to be part of Jeff's globe-trotting life of adventure ] You don't sleep much, you bathe even less and you'd have to eat things that you wouldn't want to look at while they were alive.
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