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Movie Quote of the Day – Fargo, 1996 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

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Marge Gunderson: Have you done an inventory recently?
Jerry Lundegaard: The car’s not from our lot, ma’am.
Marge Gunderson: How can you be sure without doin’ a. . .
Jerry Lundegaard: Well, I would know. I’m the executive sales manager.
Marge Gunderson: Yah, but I understand. . .
Jerry Lundegaard: We run a pretty tight ship here.
Marge Gunderson: I know, but how do they establish that? Are the cars counted daily, or what kind of a routine here?
Jerry Lundegaard: Ma’am! I answered your question.
Marge Gunderson: I’m sorry, sir?
Jerry Lundegaard: Ma’am, I answered your question. I answered the darn. . .I’m cooperating here, and there’s no. . .
Marge Gunderson: Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me. I’m just doing my job here.
Jerry Lundegaard: I’m. . .I’m not. . .I’m not arguin’ here. I’m cooperating and there’s no. . .We’re doin’ all we can.
Marge Gunderson: Sir, could I talk to Mr Gustafson?. . .Mr Lundegaard.
Jerry Lundegaard: Well, heck! If you wanna. . .if you wanna play games here. . .I’m workin’ with ya on this thing here, but. . .okay, I’ll do a damn lot count.
Marge Gunderson: Sir, right now?
Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, right now. You’re darned tootin’.

Movie Quote of the Day – The Phantom, 1996 (dir. Simon Wincer)

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The Phantom: All right, gentlemen, nobody. . .Ladies, kindly pardon my error. [gets shot at, jumps down laundry shoot] What is this, a ship full of women?
Sala: All my pilots are women.
The Phantom: Interesting.

Movie Quote of the Day – Michael, 1996 (dir. Nora Ephron)

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Michael: Remember what John and Paul said.
Huey Driscoll: The apostles?
Michael: No, the Beatles. “All you need is love.”

Movie Quote of the Day – Citizen Ruth, 1996 (dir. Alexander Payne)

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Clinic Nurse: Let me just ask you something, Ruth. Have you ever really taken the time to think about what it means to have an abortion?
Ruth: Yeah, um, it means that I don’t have to go to jail and it means I don’t have to have another baby and it means that I can start getting my life together …
Clinic Nurse: I, I, I, I, I. Don’t you think that’s all just a little selfish?

Movie Quote of the Day – Hard Eight, 1996 (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

Sidney: You know, the first thing they should have taught you at hooker school: you get the money up front.
Clementine: Fuck you!

Movie Quote of the Day – Grace of My Heart, 1996 (dir. Allison Anders)

Jay Phillips: You know, sometimes when I look at you, I see you way in the future as this amazing old lady who’s done all this really far out things.
Denise Waverly: Mm-hmm.
Jay Phillips: But you don’t see that. What’s it gonna take for me to get you to see your spark?

Movie Quote of the Day – Jane Eyre, 1996 (dir. Franco Zeffirelli)

Jane Eyre: It’s a long way off.
Mr. Rochester: No matter; a girl of your sense will not object to the voyage.
Jane Eyre: Not the voyage, but the distance. And then the sea is such a barrier.
Mr. Rochester: From. . .what, Jane?
Jane Eyre: From England, sir, and from Thornfield . . .and. . .

Movie Quote of the Day – The First Wives Club, 1996 (dir. Hugh Wilson)

Elise: You think just because I’m a movie star I don’t have feelings. Well you’re wrong. I do have feelings. I’m an actress. I have all of them!

Movie Quote of the Day – My Fellow Americans, 1996 (dir. Peter Segal)

Russell Kramer: Margaret, did you hear that?
Margaret Kramer: Yeah, I did. It’s a crock and we both know it.
Russell Kramer: It’s a kick in the balls. Sorry, sweetheart.
Margaret Kramer: Please, I’m a politician’s wife. I have a set of my own.

Movie Quote of the Day – Bottle Rocket, 1996 (dir. Wes Anderson)

Dignan: Isn’t it funny how you used to be in the nut house and now I’m in jail?