“Diner” quotes
(1982)
Title Diner
Year 1982
Director Barry Levinson
Genre Drama, Comedy
Year 1982
Director Barry Levinson
Genre Drama, Comedy
Plot – In Baltimore, five youngsters meet up to talk about the past and organize pranks together to renovate the memories. The head of the group is Boogie, a great lover who got into troubles with a deceitful man and now has to gamble to pay him 2,000 dollars back. There is the shy and gadfly Eddie who has to pass a ‘test’ before getting married. Then, Bill’s girlfriend is pregnant but she doesn’t want to marry him because she prefers her independent life. Another member of the group is a maniac jazz records’ collector, an immature man whose passion threatens his marriage.
All actors – Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, Kathryn Dowling, Michael Tucker, Jessica James, Colette Blonigan, Kelle Kipp
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“- Edward 'Eddie' Simmons: When you're making out, which do you prefer, Sinatra or Mathis?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: I like Presley.”“Do you ever get the feeling that there's something going on that we don't know about?”
“- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: That's what you get for going out with 11th graders. Her brains aren't developed yet.
- Timothy Fenwick Jr.: Yeah, but her tits were. So...
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Falsies.
- Timothy Fenwick Jr.: Were they?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: First hand info.”“- Beth Schreiber: Boog, when we were datin', did you care for me?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Sure I did.
- Beth Schreiber: You know, I don't mean just cause you could do stuff to me; but, but because you really cared?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Of course, Beth! I mean, there was plenty of girls around for a quick pop - if that's what I wanted.”“- Diane: Why don't you take me home?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: I go to law school now. I have to go home and study. The only reason I came by here, is because I appreciate the fine music.
- Diane: I thought you worked in a Beauty Parlor?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Yeah, I do - during the day.”“- Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber: When you get married - it's crazy, i dunno. I mean, you can get it whenever you want it! You wake up in the morning and she's there. You come home from work and she's there. And so all that sex planning talk is over with. And so is the wedding planning talk cause you're already married.
- Edward 'Eddie' Simmons:...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Did I tell you guys I'm taking out Carol Heathrow tomorrow night?
- Timothy Fenwick Jr.: She... is death!”“Is this show in color, or is there something wrong with the set?”
“- Second Stripper: No girl?
- William 'Billy' Howard: Not really. Just in love.
- Second Stripper: Does the girl know?
- William 'Billy' Howard: I told her about it.
- Second Stripper: Told her? Didn't you show her?”“I'll tell you one thing that happens when you get married, you have to give up your old friends. Cause the wife wants you to get new friends. New friends - nope. It's you and me. You and me, buddy, we got secrets she'll never know. Never know. Those new friends will never be as good. Nope! Cause we've - we've got a history. History!”
“Do you wanna fight? Is that what you want? Come on. Come on, you son of a bitch. I'll hit you so hard, I'll kill your whole family.”
“- Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber: Ok, now ask me what's on the flip side.
- Beth Schreiber: Why?
- Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber: Just, just ask me what's on the flip side, ok?
- Beth Schreiber: What is on the flip side?
- Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber: Hey, Hey, Hey, 1958. Specialty Records. See? You don't ask me things like that, do you? No! You...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Edward 'Eddie' Simmons: Shrev, you happy with your marriage or what?
- Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber: I don't know.
- Edward 'Eddie' Simmons: What do you mean, you don't know? You don't know?
- Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber: What?
- Edward 'Eddie' Simmons: How could you not? You don't know? How could you not know?”“This is why you are so nervous all the time. You have like chunks of roast beef in your heart!”
“- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: You know I got plans.
- Bagel: Always a dreamer, Boog?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: If you don't have good dreams, Bagel, you got nightmares.”“- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: It was an accident.
- Carol Heathrow: An accident?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Carol, seriously, it was an accident. I swear to God.
- Carol Heathrow: An accident? Your thing just got into a box of popcorn?”“- Beth Schreiber: I don't give a shit. Shrevie, who cares about what's on the flip side about the record?
- Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber: I do! Every one of my records means something! The label, the producer, the year it was made. Who was copying whose style... who's expanding on that, don't you understand? When I listen to my records they take...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Edward 'Eddie' Simmons: Do you think I'm doing the right thing, gettin' married?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Eddie, I can't tell you that.
- Edward 'Eddie' Simmons: I keep thinkin' that I'm gonna be missin' out on things, you know.
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: That's what marriage is all about.”“If you want to talk, you always have the guys at the diner. You don't need a girl if you wanna talk.”
- Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber: You don't know? Well, let me give you a hint. Okay? I found my James Brown record filed under the the "J"s - instead of the "B"s! I don't know who taught you to alphabetize! But, to top it off, he's in the rock-n-roll section! Instead of the R&B section! How can you do that?
- Beth Schreiber: It's too complicated,... (continue)(continue reading)
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