“Nobody's Fool” quotes
(1994)
Title Nobody's Fool
Year 1994
Director Robert Benton
Genre Drama, Comedy
Year 1994
Director Robert Benton
Genre Drama, Comedy
Plot – The sexagenarian bricklayer Sully has always been a "free spirit". He has divorced when his only child was one-year-old and he's never moved from his town. Now he wants to sue his employer but he loses the lawsuit. The return of his son, who's living a marital breakdown, makes Sully re-approach to him and to his grandchildren, restoring that sense of family he has never had before.
All actors – Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Gene Saks, Josef Sommer, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Catherine Dent, Alexander Goodwin
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“Ollie, you know my feelings about arming morons: you arm one, you've got to arm them all, otherwise it wouldn't be good sport.”
“- Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you?
- Sully: Not often. Now and then.”“- Peter: If you're not a father to me, how come you're a grandfather to Will?
- Sully: 'cause you gotta start someplace.”“- Rub Squeers: Can I borrow a dollar?
- Sully: Nope. You can borrow a jelly doughnut, though.
- Rub Squeers: You can't borrow a jelly doughnut. Once you eat it, it's gone.
- Sully: Once you borrow a dollar, it's gone. I'd rather buy you a jelly doughnut.”- Sully: "Beware the chains we forge in life".
- Miss Beryl: I don't suppose you remember who said that?
- Sully: You did Miss Beryl, all through 8th grade.“- Peter: It's not gonna be easy being you, is it?
- Sully: Don't expect much from yourself in the beginning. I couldn't do everything at first, either.”“- Sully: Poor guy just had a bypass. Maybe he's trying to cram everything he can do into six months. When he realizes he's going to live until he's seventy, he'll slow down.
- Toby Roebuck: If I had my way, he wouldn't live to Thanksgiving.”- Sully: Go home, you jerk. You're married to the best-looking woman in Bath.
- Carl Roebuck: Who was it that said, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp"?“- Ollie Quinn: Officer Raymer is currently under suspension.
- Judge Flatt: Anesthesia is what he should be under.”“- Peter: Oh, God. I don't believe this. I'm a member of Greenpeace and I just helped poison a dog.
- Sully: Well for one thing, it ain't poison. For another, you didn't help much.”“- Toby Roebuck: Oh, you're a man among men, Sully.
- Sully: Well, thanks.
- Toby Roebuck: That wasn't a compliment!”“- Sully: What's the matter with you?
- Wirf: I'm trying to communicate with you telepathically.
- Carl Roebuck: Forget about it. The only way to communicate with Sully's to whack him in the head with a shovel.”“- Miss Beryl: Do you still bet on that horse race of yours?
- Sully: What, the trifecta?
- Miss Beryl: Yes. Has it ever come in?
- Sully: Not yet.
- Miss Beryl: But you still bet on it.
- Sully: Well, sure. I mean, the odds have gotta kick in sooner or later.
- Miss Beryl: Fine. That's exactly the way I feel about you.”“- Peter: Mom's greatest fear is that your life was fun.
- Sully: Tell her not to worry.”“- Sully: Don't tell me she's pregnant.
- Carl Roebuck: Knocked up like a cheerleader. Eh, I suppose now you're going to want to be godfather.
- Sully: Hey... I can't be the father and the godfather. You got to goddamn do something.”“- Judge Flatt: Now is it true that you discharged your weapon, Officer?
- Officer Raymer: Your Honor, it was a warning shoot.
- Judge Flatt: Um hmm, you know who you warned? A little old lady sitting on her commode 2 blocks away.”
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