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Movie Quote of the Day – Husbands and Wives, 1992 (dir. Woody Allen)
Michael: I’m over-anxious because I like you a lot.
Sally: Oh, dear. Michael, what can I say? I haven’t made love in such a long time. My marriage, I told you, was dead. For years. I don’t know why. Yes, I do. It’s the Second Law of Thermodynamics: sooner or later everything turns to shit. That’s my phrasing, not the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Movie Quote of the Day – Death Becomes Her, 1992 (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Ernest Menville: Where did you put my wife?
Second Doctor: She’s dead, sir. They took her to the morgue.
Ernest Menville: The morgue? She’ll be FURIOUS!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Player, 1992 (dir. Robert Altman)
June: Tell me about the movies you make.
Griffin Mill: Why?
June: Because I want to know what you do.
Griffin Mill: I listen to stories and decide if they’ll make good movies or not. I get 125 phone calls a day and if I let that slip to 100 I know I’m not doing my job. Everyone who calls, they want to know one thing. They want me to say yes to them and make their movie. If I say yes, they think that come New Year’s it will be just them and Jack Nicholson on the slopes of Aspen. That’s what they think. The problem is I can only say yes, my studio can only say yes 12 times a year. And collectively we hear about 50,000 stories a year. So it’s hard. And I guess sometimes I’m not nice and make enemies. That’s what I was to David. An enemy.
June: Was his story one of the 12?
Griffin Mill: No, it wasn’t.
June: Why?
Griffin Mill: It lacked certain elements that we need to market a film successfully.
June: What elements?
Griffin Mill: Suspense, laughter, violence. Hope, heart, nudity, sex. Happy endings. Mainly happy endings.
June: What about reality?
Movie Quote of the Day – Straight Talk, 1992 (dir. Barnet Kellman)
Jack Russell: [off-screen, dropping her bra] Holy Moley!
‘Dr.’ Shirlee Kenyon: Is that all you can say?
Jack Russell: [softer and slower] Holy Moley!
‘Dr.’ Shirlee Kenyon: [giggles]
Movie Quote of the Day – Wayne’s World, 1992 (dir. Penelope Spheeris)
Wayne Campbell: I mean, there’s two Darrin Stevenses. Dick York and Dick Sargent. Sh’yeah, right, as if we wouldn’t notice. Oh hold on: Dick York, Dick Sargent, Sergeant York. . .Wow, that’s weird.
Movie Quote of the Day – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, 1992 (dir. David Lynch)
The Log Lady: When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard to put out. The tender boughs of innocence burn first, and the wind rises, and then all goodness is in jeopardy.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Crying Game, 1992 (dir. Neil Jordan)
Deveroux: Does Pat have a tart?
Fergus: She’s not a tart.
Deveroux: No, of course not. She’s a lady.
Fergus: No, she’s not that either.
Movie Quote of the Day – Singles, 1992 (dir. Cameron Crowe)
Cliff: Hey.
Janet: Hey. Going out?
Cliff: Yep. You?
Janet: Yeah.
Cliff: That’s a very nice hat, and I don’t mean that in an Eddie Haskell kind of way.
Janet: Thanks.
[beat]
[Janet sneezes]
Cliff: Bless you.
Janet: Thank you.
[beat]
Cliff: Does everybody go through this?
Janet: No, I think, just us.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Few Good Men, 1992 (dir. Rob Reiner)
Lt. Kaffee: I want the truth!
Col. Jessep: You can’t handle the truth!
Movie Quote of the Day – Buffy The Vampire Slayer, 1992 (dir. Fran Rubel Kuzui)
Buffy: All I want to do is graduate from high school, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. Now it may not sound too great to a sconehead like you, but I think it’s swell. And you come along and tell me I’m a member of the hairy mole club so you can throw things at me?
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