Memorable Quotes from Rob Reiner

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This Is Spinal Tap

Life Without Rock and Roll

Marty DiBergi Do you have any sort of creed or philosophy that you live by?

Mick Shrimpton I used to say "]." As long as there's sex and drugs, I can do without rock and roll.

[[w:Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll|sex, drugs, and rock and roll]

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This Is Spinal Tap

Living by the Philosophy of Enjoyment

Marty DiBergi Do you have any sort of creed or philosophy that you live by?

Viv Savage Have... a good... time... all the time. That's my philosophy, Marty.

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The Wolf of Wall Street

The Unconventional Business of High-Class Hookers

Max Belfort What kind of hooker takes credit cards?

Donnie A rich one!

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This Is Spinal Tap

The Moose Metaphor in Rock Music

Marty DiBergi Do you feel that playing rock n roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?

Derek Smalls No. No. No. I feel it's like, it's more like going, going to a, a national park or something. And there's, you know, they preserve the moose. And that's, that's my childhood up there on stage. That moose, you know.

Marty DiBergi So when you're playing you feel like a preserved moose on stage?

Derek Smalls Yeah.

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This Is Spinal Tap

The Significance of Going to Eleven

Nigel Tufnel The numbers all go to 11. Look, right across the board, 11, 11, 11 and...

Marty DiBergi Oh, I see. And most amps go up to 10?

Nigel Tufnel Exactly.

Marty DiBergi Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?

Nigel Tufnel Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not 10. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at 10. You're on 10 here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on 10 on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

Marty DiBergi I don't know.

Nigel Tufnel Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

Marty DiBergi Put it up to 11.

Nigel Tufnel 11. Exactly. One louder.

Marty DiBergi Why don't you make 10 a little louder, make that the top number and make that a little louder?

Nigel Tufnel ].

[pauses; [w:These go to eleven|These go to 11]

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The First Wives Club

Unexpected Revelations and Social Commentary

Chris Guess what, dad? I'm a lesbian. A big one.

Dr. Morris Packman If I give you one more face lift, you're going to be able to blink your lips!

Gunilla (sees Shelley and Morty entering her building) Social climbers on the rise.

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This Is Spinal Tap

The Unusual Saint of St. Hubbins

Marty DiBergi David St. Hubbins... I must admit I've never heard anybody with that name.

David St. Hubbins It's an unusual name. Well, he was an unusual saint. He's not a very well-known saint.

Marty DiBergi Oh, there actually is, uh... there was a St. Hubbins?

David St. Hubbins That's right, yes.

Marty DiBergi What was he the saint of?

David St. Hubbins He was the patron saint of quality footwear.

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This Is Spinal Tap

Capturing the Essence of Rock Band Life

Marty DiBergi I wanted to capture the... the sights, the sounds... the smells of a hard-working rock band, on the road. And I got that; I got more... a lot more. But hey, enough of my yakkin'; whaddaya say? Let's boogie!

[introducing the film]

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This Is Spinal Tap

The Emotional Impact of Musical Keys

Marty DiBergi It's pretty.

Nigel Tufnel Yeah, I like it. I've been fooling around with it for a few months now. Very delicate.

Marty DiBergi It's a bit of a departure from what you normally play.

Nigel Tufnel Yeah, well, it's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy that I'm doing in D... minor, which I always find is really the saddest of all keys, really, I don't know why. It makes people weep instantly to play

[plays and sings]

Nigel Tufnel It's a horn part.

Marty DiBergi It's very pretty.

Nigel Tufnel You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like — I'm really influenced by ] and ], and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of...

[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart; [Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]

Marty DiBergi What do you call this?

Nigel Tufnel Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump.

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This Is Spinal Tap

Discussion of Past Drummers in Spinal Tap

Marty DiBergi Now, during the Flower People period, who was your drummer?

David St. Hubbins Stumpy's replacement, Peter James Bond. He also died in mysterious circumstances. We were playing a, uh...

Nigel Tufnel ...Festival.

David St. Hubbins Jazz blues festival. Where was that?

Nigel Tufnel Blues jazz, really.

Derek Smalls Blues jazz festival. Misnamed.

Nigel Tufnel It was in the Isle of, uh...

David St. Hubbins Isle of Lucy. The Isle of Lucy jazz and blues festival.

Nigel Tufnel And, uh, it was tragic, really. He exploded on stage.

Derek Smalls Just like that.

David St. Hubbins He just went up.

Nigel Tufnel He just was like a flash of green light... And that was it. Nothing was left.

David St. Hubbins Look at his face.

[about Marty]

Nigel Tufnel Well, there was...

David St. Hubbins It's true, this really did happen.

Nigel Tufnel It's true. There was a little green globule on his drum seat.

David St. Hubbins Like a stain, really.

Nigel Tufnel It was more of a stain than a globule, actually.

David St. Hubbins You know, several, you know, dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported.

Sleepless in Seattle

Expectations of Attraction in Relationships

Jay That's what I'm trying to tell you, what women are looking for: pecs and a cute butt.

Sam Baldwin You mean like, "He has the cutest butt"?

Jay Yeah.

Sam Baldwin Where did I hear that recently?

Jay Everywhere. You can't even turn on the news nowadays without hearing about how some babe thought some guy's butt was cute. Who the first woman to say this was, I don't know, but somehow it caught on.

Sam Baldwin So how's my butt?

Jay Not bad.

Sam Baldwin Really?

Jay Yeah.

Sam Baldwin Is it cute, though?

Jay I don't know. Are we grading on a curve?

This Is Spinal Tap

Critique of Musical Creativity and Growth

Marty DiBergi Let's talk about your reviews a little bit. Regarding Intravenous Di Milo: "This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth rate of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

Nigel Tufnel That's...that's just nitpicking, isn't it?