Great Quotes


This wonderful film had some great quotes. Some favorites:

Sully: "There are women in this town I could hang out with that would be cheaper than you!"
Rub: "Yeah, but they wouldn't be your friend."


Miss Beryl: "You're wearing a tie! You're not in trouble with the police again, are you?
Sully: "Not unless you've blown the whistle on my parking tickets."
Miss Beryl (smiling mischievously): "I ought to -- there's probably a reward!"


Big-Shot Business Guy: "We could never have done all this without Clive. You must be very proud of your son."
Miss Beryl: "Actually, he's not really my son; they switched bassinets in the hospital."
(pregnant pause)
Clive to Big-Shot (with sh*t-eating grin): "She's just kidding."
[But if you happened to notice the photo of Miss Beryl's late husband on top of her bureau, you might have seen a certain uncanny resemblance.]


Peter: "Oh God, I'm a member of Greenpeace and I just helped poison a dog."
Sully: "Well, for one thing, it isn't poison. And for another, you didn't help much."


Sully is driving his truck along the sidewalk when crazed cop Philip Seymour Hoffman screeches to a stop in front of him, leaps out of the cop car, aims his gun at Sully's head and bellows "Get out of the truck! Now!" Sully turns to his son in the passenger seat and says:

"This is where a smart guy would get out of the truck."


Sully, going into jail, says to son Peter: "Hey, look after Wirf, will you...and Miss Beryl? Oh..and take care of Rub's jelly doughnuts."
Peter: "It's not going to be easy being you, is it."
Sully (with a wry smile): "Don't expect too much of yourself at the beginning. I couldn't do everything at first either."


Sully limps through the snow to make up with his friend Rub who is sitting on the cement steps of his tiny little house. Sully sits next to him, pauses a moment, then says:
"Well I wouldn't sit here too long. Your dick'll freeze to the top of the step."
[Unfortunately, the last time I saw this was on network where they censored it, and I can't remember Rub's response.]

and finally,

Sully's lawyer friend Wirf, hobbles into the bar on crutches after losing big at last night's poker game and with great indignation, accuses: "You'd keep my leg, wouldn't you!"
Sully (unimpressed): "You don't need a leg, you need a parrot!"

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What is this country coming to when--

Raymer, shut the f_ck up!

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"You don't need a leg, you need a parrot!"

"So, why do they call ya Whacker?"
*WHACK*

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As the pallbearers carry the casket towards the grave; "Christ a guy goes to jail for a few days and the whole town goes to hell".

"These arent my holidays, I'm a Jew." "You're a Jew? How come you arent smart?"

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To the lawyer after Judge Wapner's decision:

"You're my only source of consistent income" (Or, something to that effect)

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during one of the poker games-



sully (to wirf)- "what?"

wirf - "i'm communicating with you telepathically."

Carl (laughs) - "forget it. The only way to communicate with Sully is to whack
him in the head with a shovel."



you watched it, you can’t unwatch it

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in 'dummy's' office as the Dobermann hides beneath his desk

'dummy'- he looks just like you'
sully - yeah, he's well hung at that !

Kills me every time.

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Sully to Clive: "The ketchup stays here!"

It's spelled "Definitely."

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Sully - "Witch one of your fancy doctors advised you to drink, smoke, and screw your brains out?"

Carl - Those are unreasonable requests Sully, they wouldn't have made them if they had known me."

Sully - " If thay would have known ya, they wouldn't have fixed ya"

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Wirf: "Vaya con huevos, amigos." (leaves the Iron Horse tavern)

(long pause)

Birdy: "Did he say...go with EGGS?"

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Ms Beryl standing in her living room and sees a tree limb hit the neighbors bird bath at the beginning of the movie..

"Mr Sullivan!! Mr. Sullivan!! (tapping ceiling with broom handle) God just took out Mrs Grupperts Bird Bath!!"

Then she looks at her husbands picture...

"Clive, he's zeroing in on me. Last year it was the street light at the end of the block, now it's Mrs Grupperts bird bath."

Raymor and his boss Olley are sitting in the judges chambers with Sully and Wirf.

Raymer to Judge: "I was firing a warning shot, your honor."

Judge to Raymer: "You know who you warned? A little old lady sitting on a commode two blocks away. Olley, you know I don't like arming morons, if you arm one you have to arm them all or it wouldn't be a fair sport."

I don't know if my spelling is right but that is what I remember from the movie.

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This movie has some of the best lines of any movie in the past 20 years:

Tobey, Carl's wife (Melanie Griffith) and Sully are sitting at her kitchen table:
Tobey - "Did you ever get so mad that you wanted to shoot somebody?"
Sully - "That's why I don't carry a gun."
Tobey - "Well, maybe we should go out and buy a couple of 357 Magnums and rob banks - like Bonnie ans Clyde. Just you and me"
Sully - "...you'll have to be Clyde - I'm too tired."

Judge - "Ollie, you know my feelings about arming morons; you arm one and you have to arm them all. Otherwise it wouldn't be good sport..."
Ollie - "Your Honor, Officer Raymer is currently under suspension."
Judge - "Anesthesia is what he should be under..."

During the strip poker game Carl and his new secretary are half naked. Birdie the waitress comes in with a couple of drinks.
Carl - Birdie, close the door. Its freezing!!
Birdie - You should play better poker

What makes this script so good isn't what they say, but how they say it.

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Tj,

I just rented this movie again and watched it during our snowstorm over the MLK weekend. "Nobody's Fool" is one of those movies that brings back a lot of good memories and quoting of lines in the film. I loved watching it again.

All the guys in the poker game singing-

"Ruby, don't take your love to town; for God sakes turn around."
Then she flips the bird at them on her way to "tinkle."

TrailsWest

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When Newman is offered tea by Jessica Tandys caracter, his answer is
"Not now, not ever"
That is a great line and he delivers it beautifully. I use it often.

They pulled a mind scramble on us!They opened their eyes and talked!The Lost Boys

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Sully to Carl:

I used to believe in brains and hard work, till I met you.

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Beryl sees Miss Hattie walking down the middle of the street. She grabs the broom and hits the ceiling.

Beryl: "Mr. Sullivan! Mr Sullivan! It's Miss Hattie! Hurry she's in the middle of the street!"
Sully: "I am hurrying it just looks like slow motion. (He hears Clive Jr) Is that The Bank tell him he's in trouble."

Sully: "Hey good looking running away from home?"
Hattie: "To my sister's in Albany."
Sully: "Let me give you a life we'll get there quicker."
Hattie: "Okay."
Sully: "Hey lets you and me go dancing."
Hattie: "Dancing?"

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