Intolerable Cruelty - Invitation to Present a Proposal
Freddy Bender:
If you have a proposal to make, let's hear it.
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Intolerable Cruelty - Emotional Turmoil and Legal Indifference
Marylin Rexroth:
I'm devastated. Completely devastated.
Freddy Bender:
No further questions.
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Intolerable Cruelty - Objection to Poetry in Courtroom Dialogue
Miles Massey:
Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard, they make no battery..." Mrs. Rexroth, do you know those lines?
Freddy Bender:
Objection, your honor.
Judge Marva Munson:
Grounds?
Freddy Bender:
Uh... poetry recitation.
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Intolerable Cruelty - Misunderstandings About Hired Assassins Unfold
Miles Massey:
I guess, something inside of me died, when I realized that you'd hired a goon to kill me.
Marylin Rexroth:
Wait a minute. You hired him to kill me.
Freddy Bender:
No. Both of you wait a minute. Nobody hired anyone to kill anyone.
Wrigley:
Hear, hear.
Freddy Bender:
Apparently, from what I can gather, a burglar broke into your house-
Wrigley:
Miles house.
Freddy Bender:
Whatever. A burglar broke in intending to loot the place, uh, repented, became despondent over his lifestyle and shot himself.
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Intolerable Cruelty - Judge Allows Unusual Witness Examination
Freddy Bender:
Objection, Your Honor: strangling the witness!
Judge Marva Munson:
I'm going to allow it.
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North Country - A Father's Disappointment in His Friends
Hank Aimes:
My name is Hank Aimes and I've been a miner all my life. And I've never been ashamed of it until now. You know when we take our wives and daughters to the company barbecue, I don't hear any of them calling them those names like bitches and whores and worse. I don't see anyone grab them by their privates or drawing pictures of them on the bathroom walls, it's unspeakable. Unspeakable! So what's changed? She's still my daughter! It's a heck of a thing, to watch one of your own get treated that way. You're all supposed to be my friends, my brothers. Well, right now I don't have a friend in this room. In fact the only one I'm not ashamed of is my daughter.
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Me, Myself & Irene - Report on Cow Incident Involving Gunfire
Agent Boshane: [''Charlie's sons look at each other; Lee Harvey raises an eyebrow'']
We just got a report that he put six bullets into a prize cow's head. Poor thing's lucky to be alive.
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Cheaper by the Dozen - Football Team Troubles for Charlie
Kate:
What's the deal with Charlie?
Tom:
Fine, thanks. How are you?
Kate:
I'm sorry, hi.
Tom:
Hi. Charlie got kicked off the football team.
Kate:
What?!
Tom:
Don't worry, I'm handling it.
Tom:
Shake. President Gerhard.
President Gerhard:
Tom.
Shake:
Tom, we need a minute.
Mark:
Please don't die, Beans.
President Gerhard:
The university is prepared to make a huge investment in the program, but we want some assurances.
Tom:
What does that mean?
Shake:
We wanna know that you're committed to the football program.
President Gerhard:
You have to decide who's making the bacon and who's cooking it.
Shake:
So, what's it gonna be, Tom?
Kate:
Tom, honey, didn't you pick up my dry-cleaning?
Tom:
Yes, dear, it's in the front closet.
Shake:
Well, I guess the wife just answered our question.
Kate:
The wife's name is Kate, Shake.
Nigel:
What a wiener.
Shake:
We want an answer by Monday, Tom. This meeting's over.
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The Shape of Water - Dinner Plans and Friend Assistance
Zelda:
Alright, Brewster, I'm gonna fix your dinner, and then I'm gonna run out for a little while and help a friend.
Brewster:
Help with what?
Zelda: [a knock is heard on the door]
Help a friend.
Brewster:
Zelda... the door.
Zelda:
Well, you could help me and answer the door, Brewster. You're sitting right here just ten feet away from it!
Brewster:
My back's aching me, woman. Now, move!
Zelda:
Your back, your back? Always your back!
Zelda:
Mr. Strickland. What are you doing here?
Brewster:
Who's that man, Zelda?
Strickland:
Where is it? Where did you take it?
Zelda:
What are you talking about?
Brewster:
Zelda!
Strickland:
The thing... in the lab. Where is it?
Brewster: [gets up from his chair]
Listen, fella--
Strickland: [Brewster sits back down]
SIT DOWN!
Zelda:
I'm sorry, sir. If I knew anything, I would surely tell you.
Strickland: [rips his fingers off and exclaims loudly in pain; tosses his fingers on the floor]
That story about Samson. I never told you how it ends. After the Philistines torture him... and blind him... Samson asks God for the strength he needs. And at the last minute, he is spared. And the Lord gives him his strength back... one last time. And he holds... the columns of the temple... with his powerful arms. And he crushes them. And he brings the whole building down on the Philistines. He dies... but he gets every single one of those motherfuckers. That is his WILL! Now, do you know what that particular story means... for us, Delilah? It means if you know something you're not telling me, you're gonna tell me either before or after I bring this particular temple... down upon our heads.
Brewster:
Gal stole that thing right out the lab, whatever it is. Mute girl took it. I heard my wife talking on the phone about it.
Strickland: [walks towards Brewster; leaves]
Thank you very much, Mr. Fuller, for your assistance.
Zelda: [to Brewster; disgusted]
What have you done?
Brewster:
Zelda.
Zelda: [walks to the phone]
I gotta warn her! He's going after her--
Brewster:
You will do no such thing, woman. Why you worried about her? She broke the law.
Zelda: [calls Elisa's place; Giles picks up]
Shut up, Brewster! You shut up! Years, you don't talk... and now you can't shut your mouth! Damn you, Brewster. You wouldn't understand. Couldn't understand, not if you tried your whole life.
Giles:
Hello?
Zelda:
Giles, is that you?
Giles:
Yes.
Zelda:
Okay. Put Elisa on the phone.
Giles: [hands Elisa the phone]
It's Zelda.
Zelda: [Elisa taps on the phone]
It's Zelda. Elisa, honey, make a sound on the phone if you can hear. Okay, good. He's coming for you. You gotta go now, and you gotta take that thing with you.
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The Shape of Water - Regrets of Youth and Beauty
Giles:
Oh! God, to be young and beautiful. If I could go back...
Giles:
...to when I was 18 - I didn't know anything about anything - I'd give myself a bit of advice.
Elisa: [in sign language]
What would you say?
Giles:
I would say: Take better care of your teeth and fuck, a lot more.
Giles:
Oh no, no, that's very good advice.
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The Shape of Water - Existence and Identity in The Shape of Water
Giles: [walks away]
What are we?! What are you and I?! Do you know what we are?! We're nothing! Nothing! We can do nothing! I'm sorry, but this... this is just... oh God, It's not even human. God.
Giles:
What?
Elisa: [in sign language]
If we do nothing, neither are we.
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The Shape of Water - The Essence of Love and Presence
Giles:
If I told you about her, what would I say? That they lived happily ever after? I believe they did. That they were in love, that they remained in love? I'm sure that's true. But when I think of her, of Elisa, the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love hundreds of years ago. Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.
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The Shape of Water - The Importance of Connection and Need
Giles: [to Elisa]
Whatever this thing is, you need it.
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The Shape of Water - Giles Reflects on His Artistic Accomplishments
Giles: [repeated line]
This is some of my best work.
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The Shape of Water - Acceptance of Individuality and Nature
Giles:
He's a wild creature. We can't ask him to be anything else.
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The Shape of Water - A Reflection on Timing and Belonging
Giles:
You know, sometimes I think I was either born too early or too late for my life.
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The Shape of Water - Acceptance and Responsibility in Connection
Giles: [interpreting Elisa]
When he looks at me, the way he looks at me, he does not know what I lack... or how... I am incomplete. He sees me for what I am, as I am. He's happy to see me, every time, every day. And now, I can either save him... or let him die.
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The Shape of Water - Legal Concerns and Moral Dilemmas
Giles:
Get him out? What are you talking about? No! Absolutely not. Because it's breaking the law, that's why. We're probably breaking the law just talking about it.
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The Shape of Water - Reflections on Love and Memory
Giles:
If I spoke about it... if I did... what would I tell you? I wonder. Would I tell you about the time? It happened a long time ago, it seems, in the last days of a fair prince's reign. Or would I tell you about the place? A small city near the coast... but far from everything else. Or, I don't know. Would I tell you about her? The princess without voice. Or perhaps I would just warn you about the truth of these facts... and the tale of love and loss... and the monster who tried to destroy it all.
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The Witches of Eastwick - Confronting Moral Failure in Local Reporting
Felicia Alden: [while being fed oatmeal in the hospital]
You know, you sit there in that pathetic excuse for an office, reporting gossip, while under your very nose, evil is doing its worst. You have no spine, Clyde. Not one ounce of morality. Versed, even common sense. Nuclear holocaust, rape, murder, apartheid. Why these words they mean nothing to you.
Clyde Alden:
It's a local newspaper, Honey.
Felicia Alden:
It's local turpitude. You are a failure, Clyde. You know you should be strung up with that son-of-a-bitch who bought that house.
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The Witches of Eastwick - Paradise and Danger in Eastwick
Felicia Alden: [after being dragged out of the church]
There once was a paradise, and then a serpent came into that garden.
Clyde Alden:
Oh, for christ sakes, Felicia, would you stop? Please, just stop, stop.
Felicia Alden:
Oh, Clyde, I have nothing against a good fuck, but there is danger here and somebody has to do something about it.
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Absolute Power - Wealth and Waiting in Uncertain Times
Walter Sullivan:
I don't yet know who it is I'm after. Until I do, you'll have to wait in Washington for instructions.
Michael McCarty:
I'm afraid that's out of the question. Mine is not particularly creative work, and I do it only because I enjoy living beyond my means. I can't afford to just sit around.
Walter Sullivan:
My father died when I was nine years old. He was a miner. He died of lung disease. I became rich at twenty-five, and the first thing I did was to buy that mine, close it down, and give every miner fifty thousand dollars to retire on. You *will* wait in Washington, Mr. McCarty. You will choose a penthouse suite, and I will put one million dollars into a Swiss bank of your choosing. And when the time comes... two million dollars a bullet.
Michael McCarty:
...You are a salesman, sir.
Walter Sullivan:
Selling sin is easy.
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