Favorite quotes?


This is not precise, but I love Matthau's lines in the Old Boat House:

You collect old furniture, old cars, old pictures, everything old except old people. Bad souvenirs. They talk too much. Even quiet, they tell you too much.

They look like the future and you don't want to know

We're the coming attractions

... But tell me he's unnecessary and that's a sin, that's a sin against life, that's abortion at the other end.

Also:

an old man like me, I could wander through the world like a ghost

nostalgia kills more of us than heart disease

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Agree, this is sad, funny and profound. Just the right note.

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Nat: "I get up in the morning, have a cup of coffee, and fall down."

Only Walter Matthau could turn a moderately funny line like that into an absolute gutbuster.

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Have you looked at your masses comrade, everyone's given up?
And Now everyone plays with you

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