Favorite Lines

Like so much of this film, this line depends on the expert delivery, but after Natasha's endless saga of who loves whom, Sonja's reply makes me fall over laughing:

"Natasha. It's getting late."

Also:

NAPOLEON: I'll go to your room after dinner.
SONJA: Good. I'll go to yours.

I need to watch this one again.

"I practice a lot when I'm alone'.

too much

I don't know if anyone mentioned the scene where Sonja's husband is on his deathbed talking about the person who insulted her honor.
"I knew he was lying. You've always been pure."

The other witnesses start laughing and Sonja looks at them and she's trying not to laugh.

Also in the same scene, she admits she could have been a better wife to him. "Perhaps if I had made love to you more often, or once, even."

She assures her dying husband that he's always been her one, true love and then looks at the others in the room and says "What's he got, about eight minutes?"

Young Boris- What's a Jew?
Boris's Uncle- You've never seen a Jew? Here, I have some sketches
Young Boris- No kidding! Do all Jews have these horns?
Boris's Uncle- No, that's just the Russian Jew. The German Jew has these stripes.
HAHA RACIST but it's OK a Jew wrote it.

OR

Boris- (looking at the snow) Are you sure this is cooked?
Sonja- Well I left it in the oven for an hour
Boris- It looks a little rare to me
Sonja- Well, I have some sleet for dessert
Boris- Oh, sleet, my favorite!

Nobody sits like this rock sits. You rock, rock. This rock just sits and is. You teach us how to just sit, and that's what we need-Jason Schwartzman, I Heart Huckabees.

Boris' critique of the hygiene play:

Fellow Soldier: "So what did you think of the play?"

Boris: "It was weak....I was never interested. Althought the part of the doctor was played with gusto and verve and the girl had a delightful cameo role. A puckish satire of contemporary mores.....a droll spoof aimed more at the heart than the head."

I've actually memorized this part and use it whenever someone asks me how I liked a movie. Goodtimes!

We shall do it to the death
Boris: Oh, I can't do anything to the death, doctor's orders. I have an ulcer and dying is one of the worst things for it.

Boris: I can't eat any food that begins with the letter F, like chicken, for instance.

Napoleon- Shall we, to the bed?
Sonja- Shall we what to the bed?

Count- I heard you're heroism was quite inadvertant.
Boris- You should have such inadvertant heroism. Boy, that showed him.

Drill Sergeant- You Ignoramus! (amus pronounced like America)
Boris- Ignoramus (correcting him)

Holy crap I'm surprised nobody mentioned that one.

Nobody sits like this rock sits. You rock, rock.

to die.. before the harvest! the crops, the grains, fields of rippling wheat. Wheat, all there is in life is wheat. wheat, lots of wheat, fields of wheat, a tremendous amount of wheat. red wheat, yellow wheat, wheat with feathers, CREAM of wheat,

Napoleon: "To your eyes."
Sonja: "To the bridge of your nose."

Soldier: "You love Russia, don't you!"
Boris: "Yes sir!"

Soldier: "You like it here, don't you!"
Boris: "Yes sir!"

Soldier: "You want to make a career out of the Army, don't you!"
Boris: "Well, let's not get carried away."