Cocoon - The Value of Unrestricted Enjoyment
Art Selwyn: [after witnessing the indoor swimming pool being purchased]
Club house is closed, Gentlemen.
Joseph Finley:
Maybe they could give us permission to use the pool. We could pay them something.
Art Selwyn:
It wouldn't be fun if we had permission.
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Cocoon - Choosing Love Over Immortality
Joseph Finley: [to Alma]
They say if we go with them, we'll live forever. And that's good. It's probably going to take you an eternity to forgive me... Alma, I'm sorry. I guess I was being ridiculous. I'm sorry. I love you. You're my whole life. I wanna go. But if it's a choice of only six more months here with you or living forever all by myself, well I'll take the six more months here with you. I don't want to live forever if you're not going to be with me.
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Cocoon - The Uncertainty of Medical Advice
Ben Luckett:
So you went to the doctor, what did he say?
Joseph Finley:
Oh, it's a breeze. Everything is fine.
Ben Luckett:
Hey, wait a minute. This is ME you're talking to. Now you went to the Goddamn doctor. What did he say?
Joseph Finley: [after a pause]
Doctor's don't know everything.
Ben Luckett:
Well, there is the one school of thought that says they don't know nothing.
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Cocoon - Concerns About Pool Substance Safety
Joseph Finley:
You think there's cocaine in that pool?
Ben Luckett:
Might be.
Joseph Finley:
What if we O.D.?
Ben Luckett:
We'll keep an eye on each other. I'll watch him.
Ben Luckett:
You watch him.
Ben Luckett:
You watch me.
Art Selwyn:
Perfect.
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Cocoon - Feeling Great and Ready to Conquer
Joseph Finley:
I feel great.
Ben Luckett:
You wouldn't bullshit me?
Joseph Finley:
My God, I'm telling the truth!
Art Selwyn:
Why shouldn't he feel good? I feel tremendous! I'm ready to take on the world!
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Cocoon - Conflict Over Commitment and Responsibility
Bernard Lefkowitz:
I'm a citizen. I believe in this country. In 1945, Dutch Scholtz walked into my store and he said...
Joseph Finley:
Bernie, if you don't wanna do this for Rosie and you don't wanna do this for yourself, that's fine, that's your business, but if you screw this up for the rest of us...
Bernard Lefkowitz:
Don't threaten me, Joe, I don't need any of your threats. We're not doing it and that's final!
Ben Luckett:
Anyone having second thoughts?
Art Selwyn:
I'm a citizen too. I was in the navy. I don't see anything wrong with it.
Ben Luckett:
Then you drive. I got no license.
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Cocoon - The Debate on Age and Love
Art Selwyn: [singing]
Oh, I'm in the mood for love.
Ben Luckett:
Will you listen to this guy? He'll be chasing them dolls til his dick runs off.
Art Selwyn:
Oh, I'm too old for that sort of thing.
Joseph Finley:
Age isn't everything.
Art Selwyn:
Nope.
Joseph Finley:
Anyway it's all up here.
Ben Luckett:
Not all up here, pal. Some of it's down here, which I might add is stiff as a board.
Art Selwyn:
You too? You got a boner too?
Ben Luckett:
Blue steel. Cat couldn't scratch it.
Joseph Finley:
I thought I was the only one.
Art Selwyn: [singing]
We're in the mood for love, simply because we've got one.
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Cocoon: The Return - A Moment of Rest and Care
Joe Finley:
I'm so tired.
Alma Finley: [cries]
Then go ahead and rest, dear.
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Cocoon: The Return - A Perfect Day with Friends at the Beach
Art Selwyn:
Beautiful beach, a sunny day and good friends. What more can a man ask for?
Joe Finley: [pointing to young girls in bikinis]
Can I have some of that please?
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Cocoon: The Return - Sleepless Nights Among Friends
Art Selwyn:
How'd you guys sleep?
Joe Finley:
Alma didn't sleep a wink.
Art Selwyn:
You're kidding.
Joe Finley:
No. Neither did I.
Art Selwyn:
You dog!
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The Parallax View - Ambiguity in Humor and Understanding
Bill Rintels: [after Frady's run-in with police]
You're enjoying yourself, aren't you?
Joseph Frady:
You gotta admit, it's funny.
Bill Rintels:
It makes me laugh, but I don't think it's funny.
Joseph Frady:
What's that supposed to mean?
Bill Rintels:
Have you ever laughed at a comedian when he pretended to stutter? There's nothing funny about a man who stutters, but people laugh. They're amused. But they're not happy about it.
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The Parallax View - Reporting News, Not Creating It
Bill Rintels:
We're in the business of reporting the news, not creating it.
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The Parallax View - Advice on Responsibility and Personal Growth
Bill Rintels:
When I agreed to take you back in January I made two suggestions. One was about your drinking. Well, you seem to have licked that. The other was that you curb your talent for creative irresponsibility: you can start working on that right now.
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The Pelican Brief - Threats Against a Justice's Life
Justice Rosenberg:
Any of those signs got my name on em?
Gray Grantham:
Quite a few.
Justice Rosenberg:
What do they say?
Gray Grantham:
The usual: Death to Rosenberg, Retire Rosenberg, Cut off the oxygen.
Justice Rosenberg: [laughs]
That's my favorite. Of course you, Mr Grantham, did pretty good by me your last time out: Rosenberg equals the government over business, the individual over government, the environment over everything. And the Indians? Oh, give em whatever they want.
Gray Grantham:
Well with all due respects sir, that wasn't my line, that was a quote.
Justice Rosenberg:
From one of your unnamed senior White House officials; senior White House son of a bitch I should have said, who got in there by stirring up these people, one against the other. It never fails to amaze me what a man will do to get into the Oval Office.
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