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Night Shift Quotes

"Ever since two enterprising young men turned the City Morgue into a swinging business, people have been dying to get in."

R 1982 · 1h 46m
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19 quotes
A Moment of Concern Among Friends
Belinda Bill, Bill, are you all right? Did you break anything, Bill?
Bill I caught an updraft.
Chuck Are you OK?
Bill Yeah, I'm alright, don't worry, I'm alright, fortunately the ground broke my fall.
Severing Ties with Finality
Bill Blazejowski I wash my hands and my feet of you!
Innovative Ideas for a Cleaner Future
Bill Blazejowski Wanna know why I carry this tape recorder? To tape things. See, I'm an idea man, Chuck. I got ideas coming at me all day... I couldn't even fight em off if I wanted. Wait a second... hold the phone! Hold the phone! Idea to eliminate garbage. Edible paper. You eat it, it's gone! You eat it, it's outta there! No more garbage!
[speaking into tape recorder]
Introducing the Love Brokers Concept
Bill Blazejowski We'll call ourselves Love Brokers.
Innovative Tuna Fish Idea
Bill Blazejowski What if you mix...mayonnaise right in the can with the tuna fish? Hold it! Hold it! Wait a minute! Chuck! Take live tuna fish...and feed them mayonnaise. Oh this is good. Call StarKist.
[speaks into tape recorder]
Questioning the Purpose of Their Job
Bill Blazejowski What's our job? We like drive around and pickup stiffs, or what? Is that what we are supposed to do?
Understanding the Essence of Prostitution
Bill Blazejowski What are we really talking about here? Huh? What's the essence of what we're talking about? Spell it out for you if I have to. PROSTITUTION! Prostitution. Yeah, we can say it. We're big kids now, right? You know a lot of times it'll help you to understand a word if you break it down, so let’s do that now, shall we? PROS... it doesn't mean anything. Forget about that... TIT, I think we all know what that means. TU, kay two tit and TION, of course, from the Latin to shun... to say no, uh-uh, thank you anyway I don't want it, to push away... it doesn't even belong in this word really, so let's get rid of that.
[writing on chalkboard]
A Conversation About Perceptions and Leadership
Bill Chuck, come on - it looks bad in front of the other guys!
[Chuck is spitting on himself in the jail cell]
Chuck So what am I running for, cell president?
Bill No!... they have that?
Making the Day Pay Off Together
Taglines Together they are going to make the day pay off... all night long!
A Reminder to Stay Silent
Bill You tellin me to shut up?
Chuck I'm telling you to shut up! I will tell your recorder so that you don't forget!
Chuck Hello, this is Chuck to remind Bill to SHUT UP!
Unexpected Consequences of a Confrontation
Chuck Oh my God. Did you fall down? Did somebody hit you?
[elevator door opens; Chuck sees Belinda lying on the elevator floor]
Belinda Other way round. Somebody hit me and then I fell down.
Morgue Business Turns into Popular Attraction
Taglines Ever since two enterprising young men turned the City Morgue into a swinging business, people have been dying to get in.
Conversations on Opportunity and Morality
Chuck As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.
Bill Is this a great country, or what?
Unexpected Introductions at Night Shift
Bill Hey Chuck? Who is this? Your wife?
[picking up photo from desk]
Chuck Fiancée.
Bill Nice frame!
A Fresh Take on an Ancient Profession
Taglines The oldest profession in a new-look comedy.
Discussion of a Deceased Actor's Heritage
Chuck Lumley Name of the deceased... something Polish?
[reads the forms that Leonard, the day shift guy left]
Leonard Oh, that ]. What an actor.
[[w:Barney Rubble|Barney Rubble]
Career Choices and Unexpected Paths
Chuck I used to be an investment counselor.
Bill Yeah? What's that?
[pause]
Chuck It's like a stockbroker.
Bill So what're you doing babysitting stiffs? What were you... drinker? Big drinker?
Chuck No!
Bill Doper! Toothead! Nose candy! Coke!
The Day Loses Life's Vibrancy
Taglines It makes the day seem dead.
Invention and Luck at the Blackjack Table
Bill Blazejowski So there I was at the Blackjack table with all my wash n dries... did I tell you I had the idea for them first?