Edmund Gwenn: 45 Movie Quotes with Audio

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1 It seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.

As Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

2 Oh, Christmas isn't just a day. It's a frame of mind. And that's what's been changing.

As Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

3 I have great respect for psychiatry and great contempt for meddling amateurs who go around practicing it.

As Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

4 He's contemptible, dishonest, selfish, deceitful, vicious. Yet he's out there, and I'm in here. He's called normal, and I'm not. Well, if that's normal, I don't want it.

As Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

5 No, to me the imagination is a place all by itself - a separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagination. It's a wonderful place.

As Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

6 Your Santa Claus is intoxicated.

As Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

7 That's what I've been fighting against for years - the way they commercialize Christmas.

As Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

8 Your beard doesn't have one of those things that goes over your ears. -That's because it's real, just like I'm really Santa Claus. Oh, go ahead. Pull it.

Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle; Natalie Wood as Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

9 For the past 50 years or so, I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas.

As Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

10 You know, sometimes the cause of nervous habits like yours is not obvious. No. Often they're the result of an insecurity. Are you happy at home?

As Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)