Charles Grodin quotes
- From the movie: Midnight Run
“- Jonathan Mardukas: You ever had lyonnaise potatoes? They are these types of potatoes that are sautéed but then they have this onion thing added to them, and they are really, really delicious. They work well with any, uh, chicken or pork dish. You know I could set you up with lyonnaise potatoes for the rest of your life.
- Jack Walsh: Why don't...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Midnight Run
“- Jonathan Mardukas: Come on, cigarettes are killers.
- Jack Walsh: So are women.” - From the movie: Midnight Run
- From the movie: Beethoven's 2nd
“- George Newton: I don't want to be responsible for 5 dogs!
- Ryce Newton: You don't have to be responsible. Dad, we've been responsible - we've gone through hell with these dogs. And if being responsible means we have to give them up now, then, I hate responsibility. Dad, we kept them alive just like you and mom kept us alive. Ad you're not...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Clifford
“Hi, this is Martin Daniels, I'm not home right now but I got a bomb under city hall. Talk to you later.”
- From the movie: While We're Young
“- Leslie Breitbart: How's my daughter?
- Josh: How's she seem to you?
- Leslie Breitbart: Seems well.
- Josh: So why are you asking me?” - From the movie: Heart and Souls
“Who came up with this ridiculous concept anyway? Resolve your entire life in one bold stroke? What if I fail? And I will. I'll fail. I'm telling you. I always fail. Then my whole life will be a complete failure.”
- From the movie: Ishtar
“- Chuck Clarke: What do you do?
- Jim Harrison: I'm with the CIA.
- Chuck Clarke: Interesting work?” - From the movie: The Couch Trip
“I'm not sick. I just need space.”
- From the movie: The Woman in Red
- From the movie: The Lonely Guy
“- Warren: My hair doesn't grow long enough to swoop it over. Besides, I think when you see a guy with his hair swooped over, you know he's doing it to cover up something.
-Larry: Yeah, if a guy has a lot of hair, he's not gonna swoop it over.” - From the movie: Beethoven
“My family likes you more than they like me! Why? All you do is drool and shed and eat!”
- From the movie: Beethoven
“You'd better think of something to name him 'cause when I come home and he's destroyed my house, I wanna know what to call him.”
- From the movie: The Great Muppet Caper
“- Lady Holiday: Give Stanley a tip, Nicky.
- Nicky Holiday: For complimenting you on your necklace?
- Lady Holiday: No, because it's customary.
- Nicky Holiday: I haven't any change.
- Lady Holiday: Then give him something bigger.
- Nicky Holiday: Bigger? I left my wallet at home.
- Lady Holiday: You left your wallet in college.” - From the movie: The Lonely Guy
“You know what gets me? I go to get a haircut, they charge me, like, four bucks, which is the same amount of money they would charge anybody to come in. But say a guy like Michael Landon goes into the shop where I go, they would charge him four bucks, yet he's got, like, a hundred times more hair than I do. By rights, they should be charging...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Clifford
“Don't worry about Clifford, he'll be fine if you give him a ton of sugar and a book about Hitler.”
- From the movie: Clifford
“- Martin Daniels: You tell Sarah that you and I are the best of friends.
- Clifford Daniels: And we are, aren't we?
- Martin Daniels: Shut up.” - From the movie: The Great Muppet Caper
“- Nicky Holiday: Miss Piggy... You're a very different looking woman. I'm so tired of the same type, those tall thin creatures with the long legs, the aquiline noses, the teeth like pearls, soft skin...
- Miss Piggy: Yeah, well, I can see where that might make you sick to your stomach.” - From the movie: The Lonely Guy
“- Larry: What'd you have for lunch?
- Warren: Toast.
- Larry: White?
- Warren: Rye.
- Larry: Good?
- Warren: Yeah.
- Larry: Sounds good.” - From the movie: Beethoven
“- George: We can't throw out the option of having a babysitter just because we had a bad one. We'll find somebody really responsible to look after the kids.
- Alice: Over my dead body.” - From the movie: Seems Like Old Times
“- Fred: What should I do, Ira?
- Governon: What should he do about what?
- Glenda Gardenia Parks: The chicken, Fred is a vegetarian and doesn't know if he should eat it.
- Dist. Atty. Ira J. Parks: Eat the chicken, Fred.” - From the movie: The Lonely Guy
“- Larry: You know, the guys who always keep their hair are the guys who have no use for it at all, they're not trying to impress anybody.
- Warren: Who's that?
- Larry: Like bums. You ever seen a bald bum? They always have a beautiful head of hair.” - From the movie: Beethoven
“No matter how many showers I take, I still smell Beethoven all over me.”
- From the movie: Beethoven
“We're goldfish people, we're antfarm people. We're not dog people.”
- From the movie: The Woman in Red
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