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Bringing Up Baby

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: 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: 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: 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.

[In jail]
Susan Vance: Anyway, David, when they find out who we are they'll let us out.
David Huxley: When they find out who *you* are they'll pad the cell.

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

Mrs. Random: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.
David: These aren't my clothes.
Mrs. Random: Well, where are your clothes?
David: I've lost my clothes!
Mrs. Random: But why are you wearing *these* clothes?
David: Because I just went gay all of a sudden!

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

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

[David discovers the leopard in Susan's bathroom.]
Dr. David Huxley: Susan, you have to get out of this apartment!
Susan Vance: I can't, I have a lease.

Susan Vance: I was born on the side of a hill.

David: Now, don't lose your head.
Susan: I've got my head, I've lost my leopard!