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Movie Quote of the Day – Switch, 1991 (dir. Blake Edwards)
Amanda Brooks: So tell me, what adjective would you say best describes him?
Denise: Asshole.
Amanda Brooks: That could also be a noun.
Denise: Major asshole.
Movie Quote of the Day – Stepping Out, 1991 (dir. Lewis Gilbert)
Mavis: Listen you guys, when you turn around and you face your audience for the first time, bam! It’s gotta have style, boom! It’s gotta have the three Ts. You know what the three Ts are? Teeth, taps and tits.
Rose: You only got two Ts, right Geoffrey?
Sylvia: Don’t worry, Geoffrey, I’ve got plenty. You can have some of mine.
Movie Quote of the Day – Billy Bathgate, 1991 (dir. Robert Benton)
Billy Bathgate: Are you Mr. Schultz’s girl?
Drew Preston: I’m not his girl, he’s my gangster.
Movie Quote of the Day – Thelma & Louise, 1991 (dir. Ridley Scott)
Thelma: You’re a real live outlaw, aren’t ya?
J.D.: Well I may be an outlaw, darlin’, but you’re the one stealing my heart.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cape Fear, 1991 (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Max Cady: Every man carries a circle of hell around his head like a halo. Your daddy too. Every man. . .every man. . .has to go through hell to reach his paradise. You know what paradise is?
Danielle Bowden: No.
Max Cady: Salvation.
Movie Quote of the Day – Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 1991 (dir. James Cameron)
John Connor: We’ve got company.
Miles Dyson: Police?
Sarah Connor: How many?
John Connor: Uh, all of them, I think.
Movie Quote of the Day – Rock-A-Doodle, 1991 (dir. Don Bluth, Gary Goldman and Dan Kuenster)
Pinky: Don’t hurt him boys. He’s got a movie to make.
Chanticleer: I ain’t makin’ nothin’ with you!
Pinky: Oh but, King, I got a lot of money tied up in this picture. I don’t want to lose my money and you want to lose your friends!
Chanticleer: That’s blackmail!
Pinky: That’s showbiz!
Movie Quote of the Day – Barton Fink, 1991 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Charlie: I could tell you some stories. . .
Barton: Sure you could and yet many writers do everything in their power to insulate themselves from the common man, from where they live, from where they trade, from where they fight and love and converse and, and, and. . .So naturally their work suffers and regresses into empty formalism and. . .well I’m spouting off again, but to put it in your language, the theatre becomes as phony as a three-dollar bill!
Charlie: Well I guess that’s a tragedy right there!
Barton: You’re alright, Charlie. I’m glad you stopped by.
Movie Quote of the Day – My Own Private Idaho, 1991 (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Mike Waters: How’d we get home?
Scott Favor: That German guy. Hans. He brought you downtown, you were passed out. He said he was heading to Portland, so I asked him for a ride.
Mike Waters: For some reason I’m forgetting a German guy named Hans.
Scott Favor: Well, you were sleeping.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Fisher King, 1991 (dir. Terry Gilliam)
Jack Lucas: You know, I mean, women are great. They make homes and they kill the livestock so the knights can go and get Grails. Slaughter villages with a clear head. Where would King Arthur be without Guinevere?
Parry: Happily married, probably.
Jack Lucas: Well, that’s a bad example. But trust me on this. A woman who loves you keeps you going, gives you strength. Makes you feel like you can do anything.
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