Anybody have favorite lines from this movie? After all, it was written by Neil Simon. I have two...both delivered by Marsha Mason's character, Nora McFee:
Nora: Michael, go do your homework...there isn't something in his room that does his homework is there?
Nora: Don't crush ice!! Don't crush anything!! It's a mistake!! It doesn't belong to us!!
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Haha, that's a funny one. There's only one memorable quote listed at this site. Anybody have any more to add? There were a lot of funny lines in this movie.
I found this one at another site: "This one's for you Wichenstein! Up yours McPhee!" Who says it? I'll add it to the site.
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!
Great sequence when Sutherland's character shows up for their date....
"Who told you that?"
"Mr. Wichenstein"
"Who's Mr. Wichenstein???"
"Mr. Parker"
"Mr. Parker is Mr. Wichenstein?"
(doorbell rings)
"Umm.. oh... what did he tell you??... Look, don't go into uhh, what's his name's room. I think their's something severely wrong with him!"
(doorbell again)
Max: Uh, do you want me to get that?
Nora: It's the police!
Max: Nevermind.
Max: Maybe I'm your father but you're not my daughter. Do you know what Kierkegaard once said?
Nora; Yes! And I'm not interested in any mroe of your roommates!
"Follow those who seek the truth. Beware of those who find it."
Hey everyone! I added some of your quotes to the memorable quotes section of this movie. If you've got any more, I'll add those too!
I'm still trying to find out who says this line: "This one's for you Wichenstein! Up yours McPhee!"
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!
That one is shouted by Michael as he's rounding the bases after his home run.
Remember, Max had asked him to do the Wittgenstein one if he got hold of a long one....
FYI it's Wittgenstein, not Wichenstein, as in Ludwig Wittgenstein the philospher (a favorite past-time of Max's, to name things after philosophers).
FYI: It's "PASStime" not "past-time." As in, passing the time, not past the time of anything. I'm sorry, I'm just fed up with so many people getting that phrase wrong. I really wish schools would use phonetics to teach and not just make kids/people spell a word just to spell it. If people would actually THINK about a word, perhaps people's spelling and grammar wouldn't be so god awful these days!
At any rate, some of my favorite lines are:
Nora: What does your doctor say? (regarding the cigars)
Max: Oh, he said "send me what you don't finish." He's not sentimental.
Brian: Oh? What do you teach?
Nora: English.
Brian: Contemporary?
Nora: Not when I show up with thirty-nine exam papers missing.
(at the final ball game)
Woman always at the game: Nora, watch your language, you're SUPPOSED to be an English teacher.
Nora: They stole my car, they stole exam papers, you gotta fight back sometime! Come on Michael, knock that ball out of the park!
Btw, the person who said, "Up yours McPhee!" was the third baseman. He was (as far as I know) never credited with a name.
Max: I assure you, I am your father.
Nora: After what you did, that doesn't make you any safer.
Nora: Can I see it?
Max: Hmm? Oh, sure. I look all the time.
(Nora goes to the suitcase full of money and just stares, drink in hand)
Nora: How much is in here.
Max: Exactly what they took from me... six hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars.
(Nora's mouth drops open and she emits a noise. The glass slips from her hand and clinks onto the floor as she goes into shock)
Those are just a few of my favorite quotes.
Actually, if you're going to be a successful grammar Nazi, you should at least get your facts straight: it's pastime (1, not 2 s's).
Main Entry: pas·time
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
: something that amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pastime
Nora: This is English Louis. Save that discussion for Biology.
Nora: What dog?
Brian: The big one. The one that looks down into the house.
Max: Schopenhauer.
Nora: Really? Is that his car parked in my driveway?
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"She flattened a Dear John with a John Deere." - Douglas Wambaugh
Sorry, I know this comment is a year and half old, but I just had to chime in and agree with you on the spelling/grammar used these days. I completely understand your frustration on this topic. I catch myself "grading papers" so-to-speak (and I'm not even a teacher), when reading anything on the internet and it drives me up the wall when I see 'your' when it should be 'you're'; 'there' or 'their' when it should 'they're'.
Be that as it may, I love it when Max pulls out the money and says, "That's $10,000....in Las Vegas, I could get 2 drinks for that."
"My word isn't worth diddlypoo." ~ Max
This might not be exact:
a) "You can make money with philosophy?"
b) "You can if you've got the right one."
a) Mike and b) Max
There are so many more, but my brain won't retain the words long enough for me to jot them in my film journal. *sigh* Well, Fox Movie Channel repeats showings, so maybe I'll catch it again very soon.
I LOVE the rapid-fire back-and-forth as Nora not-so-smoothly dodges questions! Maybe I'll tape this so that I can be sure to catch more. I do have a copy somewhere, but it's buried among my too-vast videotape collection, sharing room with at least two other movies on a tape.
~~MystMoonstruck~~
A couple of mine...
Nora: You promised! You gave me your word!
Max: Oh, my word doesn't mean diddly-poo!
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Max: You haven't liked any of my stories, so I'll just keep telling you new ones until you pick out one that you like.
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Brian: That is a police car and that is a siren! When I tell you to stop, you'd better g**d***** well better stop!
Nora: Was I speeding? Did I go through a red light? If you stop me, you'd better g** d***** well better have a reason to stop me!
And another one:
Brian: Mrs. Keen-Eyed Litke ...she's better than the CIA!