Elaine May movie quotes

Immagine di Elaine May
Identikit and personal data
Name
Elaine
Last name
May
Pseudonym
Elaine May
Born
April 21, 1932 in Filadelfia
Gender
female
Nationality
North American
Profession
film director, actor, scriptwriter
Zodiac sign
Taurus
Elaine May movie quotes, phrases and lines
9 in english
Elaine May quotes
  • “Information cannot argue with a closed mind.”
    Elaine May
     
  • “- Marvin Michaels: I've missed you. Let's go to the living room. God, I've missed you! Let's make love in the living room.
    - Millie Michaels: You've missed me? You've only been away one night?
    - Marvin Michaels: I know; but, there's a three hour time difference.”

    Walter Matthau - Marvin Michaels
    Elaine May - Millie Michaels
    [Tag:making love, time]
  • “- May Sloane: Then the lights begin to flash. Little pinpoints of light. Then my tongue turns black and I can't swallow.
    - Dr. Henske: Really?
    - May Sloane: The diagnosis is Parkinson's, but they think it could be the Ebola virus, or mad cow disease.”

    Elaine May - May
    Marvin Chatinover - Dr. Henske
    [Tag:disease]
  • “The only safe thing is to take a chance.”
    Elaine May
    [Tag:chance]
  • “It was a really tragic story because my husband, Otto, was dyslexic, and the only thing he could spell correctly was his name.”
    Elaine May - May
    [Tag:disease, husband]
  • “I like a moralproblem so much better than a real problem.”
    Elaine May
     
  • “- Reva Prosky: It's the mafia! The mafia is after us!
    - Marianne Flan: Oh, the mafia wouldn't try to kill us and make it look like an accident! They'd just kill us! They're the mafia.
    - Reva Prosky: Oh, yes. But what if it connects them to something bigger, like drugs, or murder!?
    - Marianne Flan: Do you know much about the mafia?”

    Marlo Thomas - Reva Prosky
    Elaine May - Marianne Flan
    [Tag:killing, mafia]
  • “I met a wonderful man downstairs. He seemed to like me. He said I reminded him of his wife who's dead. But I assume he meant when she was alive.”
    Elaine May - May
    [Tag:meeting, wife]
  • “- Ray: I get a bad vibe about this guy, David. It's my street instinct, but I just don't trust him.
    - May Sloane: Yeah, I know why. Because he's younger than you are, handsomer than you are, he's much taller than you are, he's smarter than you are, he's much more exciting than you are...
    - Ray: May, don't feel obligated to pull any punches with...” (continue)
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    Woody Allen - Ray
    Elaine May - May
    [Tag:envy, instinct]
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