Might as well list the entire screenplay - it's gold from beginning to end
# 1. And still my favorite "Well you need to buck up. Ya know, no one said it would be easy to be a millionaire." (I've quoted that so many times)
2. You can't eat scenery.
3. You speak a lot of sense for an oilman
4. I'll make a good Gordon, Gordan.
5. The world will weep with joy. Mr. Happer's found his comet. Hurray!
.........And so many, many more !!!!!!
Dry, normal or greasy?
Normal.
Extra normal.
Mac MacIntyre: Where's the door here?
Gordon Urquhart: There is no door. Just knock on the window.
Mac MacIntyre: How do you do business with a man who has no door?
Victor: The ethics are just the same.
[not exact quotes, I don't think]
Mac: Can this music be turned down?
Gordon: You mean you don't like it?
Mac: No.
Gordon: You mean.... you never liked it?
Mac: No.
Gordon: Since you first got here, you didn't like it?
Mac: No.
You just have to be resigned-
You're crashing by design
Yes, that's one that has entered our day to day conversations such as:
My wife: How about we change the living room wallpaper?
Me: You mean you don't like it?
Wife: No.
Me: You mean you never liked it?
Wife: No.
Me: Even when you first came here, you didn't like it?
Wife: No.
It works in so many ways!
Mac MacIntyre: Where's the door here?
Gordon Urquhart: There is no door. Just knock on the window.
Mac MacIntyre: How do you do business with a man who has no door?
Victor: The ethics are just the same.
Good sky you've got here MacIntyre.......well done.
shareThere's two L's in Dollar
-- yeah and there's two G's in bugger off
(btw Mickeyfinn -- why the Townshend "crashing by design" qute? One of ny faves.)
BEN:
Oh, dear, oh, dear...I mean you could have had a very nice purchase there Mr. Macintyre. I can't hold much more than 10,000 grains of sand in my hand at a time...
...Did you think it would be a bigger number?
MAC:
You took advantage of me Ben.
BEN:
Did I?
Yes, yet another of many favourite.
This follows on from Mac not wanting to play games..."I want to negotiate in a businesslike way."
And of course afterwards, when Mac suggests a hatful of sand, Ben's reply:
"Ah no, no, that wouldn't be businesslike".
It's Ben's soft lilting accent & smiling face as much as anything that makes it perfection.
What a charming moment from a near perfect film. I loved the initial exchange between these two characters....good one!
share"I tried it with the raspberries, it was delicious ..."
"I'm not a Scotsman either"
"Conference time in Houston"
"It had a name, two names. Mac was completely on top of the situation"
"Are you interested in buying my Church too, Mr Macintyre?
Well not as a going concern"
etc etc.
How can we forget:
(Drunk) "IT JUST WENT RED ALL OVER!!!! IT JUST WENT RED ALL OVER!!!!"
[click]
You just have to be resigned-
You're crashing by design
Mac (to Gordon, upon first meeting him):
Could we check in?
We've been on the road all night.
We have an injured rabbit also
I'm not sure what it is about that I like, but it's probably the apparent randomness of someone speaking the line "We have an injured rabbit also"
We have an injured rabbit also
"Telephone for you, a Mister Happer, H A P P....P E R. Spelt it fer me he did."
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, or doesn't.