Austin Pendleton movie quotes

“In theater when you do a comedy, you rehearse for a few weeks and you begin to feel the rhythm. In film it's an arbitrary rhythm usually that has to look like a truthful one to work.”
Austin Pendleton

“- Daniel: You know there is an old man shacked up here with a very young girl!
- Hotel Clerk: Sir, most of these rooms have old men with young girls. This is Washington.”
Michael J. Fox - Daniel
Austin Pendleton - Hotel Clerk

“The Method: that's all it is, a technique to know what you're talking about and mean what you say.”
Austin Pendleton

“All the comedies I've done have been hard to film. Film is an anomalous environment for it because you don't know whether they're gonna laugh or not.”
Austin Pendleton

“Okay, well, you're dead. Which is unusual, because we don't normally see this much activity in a dead person.”
Austin Pendleton - Dr. Bronson

“- Maj. Ebersole: Well, theoretically, and I wouldn't bet the farm, the hover tank will lift off and hover several inches above the pond.
- Col. John T. Hall: Good. Very good.
- Maj. Ebersole: Yeah. Then it will engage the targets. The cannon, boom, the ammunition dump, kaboom, that truck, boom.
- Col. John T. Hall: Excellent. Though, one...” (continue)(continue reading)
Austin Pendleton - Maj. Ebersole
Dan Aykroyd - Col. John T. Hall

“- Howard Marner: What if it goes out and melts down a bus load of nuns? How would you like to write the headline on that one?
- Benjamin Jabituya: Nun soup?”

Austin Pendleton - Howard Marner
Fisher Stevens - Ben Jabituya

“- Doc Hopper: Maybe this frog does everything. He talks, he sings, he dances, he tells jokes, he even rides a bicycle. Max, find me a frog and a bear in a tan Studebaker.
- Max: Gee, Doc, all I can see is a frog and a bear in a rainbow-colored Studebaker.”

Charles Durning - Doc Hopper
Austin Pendleton - Max

“- Dr. Bronson: I'm afraid I have some bad news. Your boy is very sick. He's lost a massive amount of blood, and his pulse and retinal response are poor, and as you can see there's an axe sticking out of his head.
- Big Chuck: He's not sick, you idiot, he's dead!
- Dr. Bronson: Oh, everybody's a doctor. You think maybe I could make the diagnosis?”
Austin Pendleton - Dr. Bronson
Paul Dooley - Big Chuck