“Deconstructing Harry” quotes
(1997)
Woody Allen
directed this movie
in 1997
Title Deconstructing Harry
Year 1997
Director Woody Allen
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Year 1997
Director Woody Allen
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Plot – New York. Harry Block is a writer who would like to put some order into his life, but he can't stay far from chaotic situations. His novels have always had a strong autobiographical component and very soon a creative crisis adds to his personal one. Between dream and reality, Harry re-lives some events happened in the past and meets his first wife, a psychoanalyst whom he betrayed with her same patient and now she repays him making him meet their nine-year-old son as little as possible. Then it's the turn of his second wife Jane, whom he betrayed with her same sister. In this circle of couples, Harry finds shelter in his psychoanalyst and sometimes with some prostitutes. When his old university confers him a honorary degree, Harry asks Cookie, a black prostitute, to go with him to the ceremony. When the dean of the university invites Harry in a room, the man sees all the characters of his imagination welcoming him with applauses and he realizes he can save himself only with them.
All actors – Judy Davis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Dan Frazer, Joel Leffert, Lynn Cohen, Richard Benjamin, Joe Buck, Jane Hoffman, Woody Allen, Tobey Maguire, Annette Arnold, Frederick Rolf, Elisabeth Kieselstein-Cord, Lortensia Hayes, Alicia Meer, Victoria Hale, Irving Metzman, Sunny Chae, Ralph Pope, Robert Harper, Tony Darrow, Jonathan LaPaglia, Jeff Mazzola, Timothy Jerome, Peter Castellotti, Robin Williams, Judy Bauerlein, Joseph P. Reidy, Phyllis Burdoe, Julie Kavner, Barbara Hollander, Adam Rose, David S. Howard, Kirstie Alley, Eric Lloyd, Mariel Hemingway, Amanda Barudin, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo, Floyd Resnick, Bob Balaban, Brian McConnachie, Elisabeth Shue, Peter Jacobson, Tracey Lynne Miller, Hazelle Goodman, Amy Irving, Jennifer Garner, Caroline Aaron, Eric Bogosian, Irwin Charone, Hy Anzell, Shifra Lerer, John Doumanian, Alexa Aronson, Kenneth Edelson, Viola Harris, Si Picker, Howard Spiegel, Billy Crystal, Eugene Troobnick, Scotty Bloch, Ray Aranha, Paul Giamatti, Marvin Chatinover, Daniel Wolf, Waltrudis Buck, Philip Bosco, Arden Myrin, Daisy Prince, Peter McRobbie, Gene Saks, Dan Moran, Ray Garvey, Linda Perri, Tony Sirico, Jerry Bruno, Ray Cohen, Michael Manishor, Dave Stettner, Sid Jenkowsky, Bobby Shankin, Max Chalawsky, Dana Eshghi, Chris Bauer, Mitchell Bloom, Vernon Campbell, Brett Glazer, Katie Piel, Tim Realbuto, Elisabeth Röhm, David Sontag, Todd Stockman, Matilda Szydagis, Jovanna Vitiello
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“- Harry: Cookie, do you know what a black hole is?
- Cookie: Sure, that's how I make my livin'!”“All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.”
“- The Devil: You ever fuck a blind girl?
- Harry Block: No. That I never did.
- The Devil: Oh, they're so grateful.”“It's like Vegas. You're up, you're down, but in the end the house always wins. Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.”
“- Burt: Do you care even about the holocaust, or do you think it never happened?
- Harry Block: Not only do I know that we lost 6 million, but the scary thing is that records are made to be broken.”“- Doris: You have no values. Your whole life, it's nihilism, it's cynicism, it's sarcasm and your orgasm.
- Harry Block: You know, in France I could run on that slogan and win.”“Between air conditioning and the Pope, I chose air conditioning.”
“You can't bullshit me like your shrink, he only knows what you tell him.”
“I'm a guy who can't function well in life but can in art.”
“- Harry Block: This guy is too old for her.
- Richard: He's younger than you are.
- Harry Block: Hey, I'm much too old for her, it's ridiculous. But, because of my immaturity I have a boyish quality that works.”“- Harry: The ironic thing is that the school that kicked me out is honoring me soon.
- Shrink: Why did they kick you out?
- Harry: Because I wasn't interested in college. I wanted to be a writer and that's all I cared about. Also, I tried to give the Dean's wife an enema. They didn't take kindly to that.”“- Fay: You love baseball.
- Harry Block: Baseball's easy because it has rules. It has foul lines.”“I cannot understand why the most sophisticated of women can't tell the difference between a meaningless, hot, passionate sexual affair and a nice, solid, tranquil, routine marriage.”
“Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing. Waitressing's gotta be the worst fucking job in the world.”
The most important words in the English language are not "I love you", but "It's benign".
“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
“- Joan: Tell me, Harry, just tell me something. Was she the only one, or were there others?
- Harry Block: No, Amy Pollock was the only one, may God strike me dead if I am lying.
- Joan: You're an atheist, Harry!”“- Dolly: Wolf Fishbein said, in order to hide the bodies, you ate them!
- Max: So, what are you making a fuss? Some bury, some burn, I ate!”“- Harry: What did you do?
- Damned Man: I invented aluminum siding.”“The two most important things are the work that you choose and sex.”
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