I have a wife and a family and a dog and a cat. - All the President's Men (1976) Discussion

[–] MoreSnakesPlease 17 years ago

That line did stand out.

"Have you ever danced with a refrigerator?"

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[–] makeminemomus 17 years ago

You remember when you were hungry?

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[–] interpol_ated 17 years ago

Be careful how you write it.

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[–] zalbayati 17 years ago

...and if you print that, our relationship will be terminated.

Sir, we don't have a relationship.

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[–] Molly-31 12 years ago

I don't want to say any more, okay?

You want sausage? I've got sausage, too.

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[–] Westchester914 8 years ago

FBI agent Joe: "I'm not talking about it. I am not talking to you about Haldeman or anybody else. In fact, I can't even be seen talking to either one of you bastards."

Bernstein: "What are you afraid of? Who got to you? Are we being set up? Are we, Joe? Tell us. Are we being set up?"

FBI agent Joe looks at Woodward: "Fark you (turns and looks at Bernstein) and fark you."

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (156688) 17 years ago

"A wife and a family and a dog and a cat. Right, Ken, right, yeah. Uh, Ken, I don't want to print that you were in Sally's apartment..."

"Thank God."

"I just want to know what you said...in Sally's apartment."

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[–] scb17 16 years ago

Get out your notebook, there's more...

your lives are in danger.

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[–] GregM6782 16 years ago

"Coffee's cold"

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[–] murph24 16 years ago

If you guys could get John Mitchell, that would be beautiful.

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I don't want a cookie.

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[–] shultz79 15 years ago

"Goddamnit, when is somebody gonna go on the record in this story!"

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[–] Tabbycat (748) 5 years ago

Always loved how Dustin played this one to his Graduate-like awkward comedy genius. Trying so hard to make non-threataning small talk he actually insults theshe didn’t want to offer him in the first place.

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[–] mill228 16 years ago

You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right. --Ben Bradlee

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[–] kdk7 16 years ago

"you tell your publisher, tell katy graham, she's gonna get her tit caught in a big ringer if that's published."

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[–] RoryOshea 16 years ago

"I'm a Republican".

"So am I".

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[–] zalbayati 16 years ago

haha rory, that is a terrific line

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[–] mcharles38 15 years ago

"follow the money"

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[–] rrb 15 years ago

"I've just been through a terrible ordeal! My neighbor's wife has been kidnapped!"

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[–] jwalsh67 15 years ago

"If you print that, our relationship will be terminated!".

Woodward: "Uh, sir, we don't have a relationship".

He who conquers himself is mightier than he who conquers a city.

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[–] Paul_Ke 15 years ago

"I've just been through a terrible ordeal! My neighbor's wife has been kidnapped!"

LOL! That line makes me laugh everytime. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

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[–] kdk7 15 years ago

i'd never really thought how funny that line is ("my neighbor's wife has been kidnapped") till i just read it here. i always thought it odd, but it's actually hilarious!

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[–] Hal-83 13 years ago

"I've just been through a terrible ordeal! My neighbor's wife has been kidnapped!"

That one's my favourite. :)

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book - Cicero

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[–] Tabbycat (748) 5 years ago

Cut the words “her tit.”
This is a family newspaper.

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[–] tomloft2000 15 years ago

just about every government official in this movie(except Deep Throat)was made to look like a blundering buffoon.

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[–] Molly-31 15 years ago

Well, it's just like D.T. said:

Put away the myths that the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

I'm all right, I'm alllll right!

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[–] Sonatine97 15 years ago

"....all that crap, you're putting it in the paper?" - John Mitchell

And I looked & I beheld a pale horse & the name that sat on him was Death & Hell followed with him.

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[–] pawtrax67 15 years ago

Bradlee: "Ken, I don't want to write that you were in Sally's apartment.."

Clawson: "Oh, thank God!"

Bradlee: "I just want to know what you said....In SALLY'S APARTMENT..."

Best non-blackmail, blackmail line I've ever heard.

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[–] dykesy30 15 years ago

That was a fantastic line. One of my favourite bits in the film is where Woodward is on the phone and he fluffs his line and corrects it. It just feels so real that he made a mistake. I can't remember the exact line but it's right near the start.

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[–] jwalsh67 14 years ago

I think the line you mean is "does anyone in here speak Engli...uh, Spanish?".

He who conquers himself is mightier than he who conquers a city.

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[–] NYgirl1281 14 years ago

Woodward: "Are you here in connection with the Watergate burglary?"
Markum: "I'm not here."
Woodward:"ok." (pulls out his notebook)
Markum: "Well clearly I am here."

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[–] rhinokev 14 years ago

jwalsh67, it's not the English/Spanish line that I think was being referenced (although it happened in the same scene and does appear like a flub that makes the performance more genuine). I believe it's when Redford is on the phone and switching lines between Dahlberg and MacGregor. He calls Dahberg "MacGregor" near the end of that scene and, according to Redford, it was a real flub.

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[–] johnnydelbravo 13 years ago

Even if Redford later admitted that it was a real flub, it was perfect for the
film. Anyone who's going on no sleep for days on end and juggling several hundred suspects and witnesses in his head, is bound to mess up.

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[–] Eumenides_0 13 years ago

If that was a flub, it was the best acted flub in the history of cinema! It was totally part of Woodward's character; he's been through dozens of phone calls, he's tired, he makes a little mistake, it was so realistic.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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[–] siltom1962 8 years ago

Sometimes flubs work and sometimes they don't. The people involved should always go with what works best, whether scripted, improvised, or flubbed. If you make a mistake that ends up contributing to the overall effect you keep it. But you have to know that they make a lot of mistakes that don't get kept. Mistakes aren't automatically better because they're "natural".

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[–] Tabbycat (748) 5 years ago

“The people involved should always go with what works best, whether scripted, improvised, or flubbed.”

Great quote.
Wish all directors agreed.

P.S. I’ve always assumed that was a genuine flub.

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[–] shenandoahpride 13 years ago

I would have put the cat first.

Give me love , give me love , give me peace on earth.

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[–] pawtrax67 10 years ago

I guess it would be asking too much of directors and scriptwriters to allow fluffs like that stay in movies. I love that so much because it shows reality and these guys were human.

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[–] pullman1881 10 years ago

Not only human, but that's the way real conversation sounds. I once saw a TV play or movie showing Nixon and the boys during Watergate and all the dialogue was actually transcripts of Nixon's recordings. It's quite interesting the difference between written dialogue and real conversations. People start and stop thoughts, people interrupt, stutter, grasp for words, etc.

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[–] mulhollandpsycho 13 years ago

And yet, that's exactly how it happened. Read Woodward's 4-part book series on Bush at War. You'll see nobody got along, and for an Administration so set on secrecy, everyone was willing to talk to Woodward.

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[–] jerseydevilxx 13 years ago

I've just been thru a terrible ordeal, My neighbor's wife has been kidnapped!

"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."

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[–] ecjones1951 13 years ago

"You've done worse than let Haldeman slip away: you've got people feeling sorry for him. I didn't think that was possible."--Deep Throat

WOODWARD: "John Mitchell resigns... says he wants to spend more time with his family... we don't exactly believe that."
DEEP THROAT: "No, but it's touching."

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[–] mobile707 13 years ago

Now, I guess, it is probably impossible to ever know if Mark Felt/"Deep Throat" truly said "No, but it's touching," in response to a comment about whether John Mitchell really wanted to spend more time with his family, or not. But if he did say it, that would be remarkably rich, considering that for many years, Felt was estranged from his own daughter while she lived in hippie-communes (she was very deep into that lifestyle -- her labor and delivery of her own son Levi was actually filmed as part of a hippie-documentary about traditional, non-hospital childbirth). I can't help but wonder if Felt ever mentioned these facts to his idol and mentor, J. Edgar Hoover.

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[–] ecjones1951 13 years ago

I don't think anyone who ever worked closely with Hoover ever told him anything about their personal lives. He knew it all anyway!

Whether or not Deep Throat ever said "no, but it's touching" we'll never know, but if he did it may have been sarcasm tinged with regret and guilt over his own family life. I suppose it will have to stay a tiny mystery of history.

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As for Ken Dahlberg's neighbor's wife being kidnapped, that's actually true. According to the Minnesota Historical Society:

JULY 27, 1972
Virginia Piper, wife of investment banker Harry C. Piper, Jr., is kidnapped. The Minneapolis woman is released near Duluth after a ransom of one million dollars is paid, at the time the highest such payment ever made.

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[–] mclaugb 13 years ago

"I know I shouldn't be telling you this...I gave it to Mr Stans."

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[–] pawtrax67 13 years ago

God dammit when is someone going to go on the record on this story?????

You're about to accuse Mitchell, who happens to be the highest serving law enforcement officer in this country is a crook!

Just make sure you're right....

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[–] Sonatine97 13 years ago

Ben Bradlee to WoodStein: "You know the results of the latest Gallup Poll? Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a s*hit.

You guys are probably pretty tired, right? Well, you should be. Go on home, get a nice hot bath. Rest up... 15 minutes. Then get your asses back in gear. We're under a lot of pressure, you know, and you put us there.

Nothing's riding on this except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f*uck up again, I'm gonna get mad!

Good night."

And I looked & I beheld a pale horse & the name that sat on him was Death & Hell followed with him.

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[–] prosperosmask 13 years ago

"Well I doubt it started off as Pesos..."

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[–] Brooklyn329 13 years ago

"If you're going to do it, do it right, here are my notes. If you're going to hype it, hype it with the facts. I don't mind what you did, I mind the way you did it."

Also...

"Run that baby."

and "*beep* it, let's stand by the boys" for good measure.

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[–] pawtrax67 12 years ago

All non-denial, denials. They doubt our ancestry but they don't say the story isn't accurate....

If you guys could get John Mitchell that would be beautiful!

I knew we had enemies, but I didn't think we were this popular!

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