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Movie Quote of the Day – The Preacher’s Wife, 1996 (dir. Penny Marshall)
Julia Biggs: Every fire dies sometime, Dudley. What do you do when you need to decide if the memory of it is enough?
Dudley: What do you do?
Julia Biggs: Yeah.
Dudley: What you do is. . . you go dancing!
Movie Quote of the Day – Bed of Roses,1996 (dir. Michael Goldenberg)
Lewis: You know, we don’t actually have to eat at all. I mean, I noticed the other morning you didn’t order any breakfast. I wasn’t sure if that was because you weren’t a breakfast eater. . .or because you thought I was gonna kill you.
Lisa: Yeah. . .I was. Actually, I’m starving.
Movie Quote of the Day – Walking and Talking, 1996 (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
Amelia: Who’s this?
Andrew: It’s just my parents 92 years ago.
Amelia: I wonder if I’ll ever know what it’s like not to breakup with someone.
Movie Quote of the Day – Brassed Off, 1996 (dir. Mark Herman)
Gloria: Do you want to come up for a coffee?
Andy: I don’t drink coffee.
Gloria: I haven’t got any.
Movie Quote of the Day – Dunston Checks In, 1996 (dir. Ken Kwapis)
Mrs. Dubrow: Did you get him?
Buck LaFarge: No. I did not. We’re dealing with a very smart animal here.
Robert Grant: He’s a psycho.
Mrs. Dubrow: I like obsessive people. They get things done!
Movie Quote of the Day – Basquiat, 1996 (dir. Julian Schnabel)
Albert Milo: Let me tell you something. There’s about ten people on the planet who know anything about painting, and Andy is one of them. You know, your audience isn’t even born yet.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Rock, 1996 (dir. Michael Bay)
Agent Paxton: Congratulations, Dr. Goodspeed. You did it.
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Thank you, sir.
Agent Paxton: You know, for a while there, I didn’t think you were going to make it. Well done, son. So where’s Mason?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Vaporized. Blown out to sea.
Agent Paxton: Blown out to sea, huh?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Yeah.
Agent Paxton: Poor bastard.
Director Womack: Goodspeed, where’s Mason? Where’s his body? I wanna see that son of a bitch!
Agent Paxton: Vaporized, sir. Excuse me, gentlemen.
Director Womack: What? Vaporized? A body can vaporize?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Oh, yeah! Absolutely, sir.
Movie Quote of the Day – I’m Not Rappaport, 1996 (dir. Herb Gardner)
Midge Carter: I just got to hang in till I get my Christmas tips. They just gotta keep me four more
months–
Nat Moyer: Christmas?. Compromises?. How do you think we lost Poland?.
Midge Carter: Poland?.
Nat Moyer: Stalin sits at Yalta with a twinkle in his eye. Who knew?
Midge Carter: Stalin?.
Nat Moyer: Danforth has no right to dismiss you before your time.
Midge Carter: Man, I am eighty-one!
Nat Moyer: After we finish with him, tomorrow we go after the rest of his kangaroo court.
Midge Carter: Why, Lord?. Why are you doing this to me?. Lord, I ask you for help, and you send me a weird, commie, blind man!
Movie Quote of the Day – Dear God, 1996 (dir. Garry Marshall)
State Judge: Now, you can demand a trial or in lieu of a plea, you can accept the recommendation of this court. What this court recommends is that you, the defendant, Tom Turner, AKA, Tom the Preacher, Tom the Con and Tom the Worm, you, sir, have one week to find a job. A real job. Nine to five, five days a week, for a year.
Tom Turner: Nine to five? That seems a bit excessive.
Movie Quote of the Day – From Dusk Till Dawn, 1996 (dir. Robert Rodriguez)
Seth: What did I tell you? What did I say to you? I said, “Buy the road map and leave.”
Richie: What the fuck am I supposed to do, Seth? He recognized us.
Seth: He didn’t recognize shit.
Richie: Seth, I’m telling you, the way he looked at us–you, especially–I knew he knew.
Seth: Low profile. Do you understand the meaning of the words “low profile”?
Richie: “Hey, Richie, how’s your hand?” “It hurts like a fuckin’ son of a bitch!”
Seth: Let me tell you what “low profile” is not.
Richie: “Thanks for askin’!”
Seth: It is not taking girls hostage. It is not shooting police. It is not setting fire to a building.
Richie: Bitch, bitch, bitch.
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