The Magic Christian (1969)

Partager la citation sur facebook Guy: [voiceover, as a $10 note appears onscreen] Ladies and gentlemen, this is what is commonly known as money. It comes in all sizes, colours, and denominations — like people. We'll be using quite a bit of it in the next two hours... luckily, I have enough for ALL of us.

Partager la citation sur facebook Youngman: You're certainly putting everybody on today, Dad.
Guy: Well, you know, Youngman. Sometimes it's not enough merely to teach. One has to punish as well. A little bit of the old pause.
Youngman: Cause for pause?
Guy: Yes.

Partager la citation sur facebook Youngman: Dad, do you think words corrupt?
Guy: I don't know, let's try. Agnes?
Agnes: [looks up from the television] Yes?
Guy: Nipple.
Agnes: Shh! [turns back to the television]
Guy: [watches her for a moment] Well, there's no immediate physical change.

Partager la citation sur facebook Traffic warden #27: What's your game, Mister?
Guy: [riffling a wad of bills under the warden's nose, to persuade him to eat a parking ticket] Grand is the name, and, uh - money is the game. Would you care to play?

Partager la citation sur facebook Guy: [as he and Youngman admire a painting] I like school of Rembrandt.
Youngman: St. Rembrandt's High.

Partager la citation sur facebook John: [Oxford has just purposely rammed Cambridge, at the annual Boat Race] It would never have happened in my day!
Guy: Nor mine!
Youngman: Well, it's happening in mine!

Partager la citation sur facebook Herbert: [pleads with Laurence, the ship's doctor] If you could please just give me some tranquilizers...
Laurence: Escape into drugs? Mask your fears in an artificial fog? Oh, surely you can't be serious.
Herbert: Oh, well... give me some decent English aspirin!
Laurence: [pulls out a lit marijuana joint] Here, Sir Herb. Try this. It's just what the doctor ordered.
Herbert: What is it?
Laurence: It's cannabis, Sir Herb. [Herbert inhales, then chokes]
Laurence: It'll tighten your wig.

Partager la citation sur facebook Esther: [as all hell breaks loose, aboard the Magic Christian] Youngman, what IS going on?
Youngman: [innocently] Ship's concert, I shouldn't wonder.

Partager la citation sur facebook Guy: [on being told a Rembrandt might fetch $10,000 at auction] In that case, my final offer is 30.
Mr. Dougdale: [stunned] Thirty - thousand - pounds? Shit! I beg your pardon, I do beg your pardon.

Partager la citation sur facebook Announcer on 'Magic Christian': [as the 'Magic Christian' starts to sink] Go to B-Deck immediately! I repeat: Go to C-Deck immediately!

Partager la citation sur facebook Guy: [a police car drives up to Grand's car] Could be routine, or... mere damnable harassment.

Partager la citation sur facebook Guy: [Lawrence Harvey performs a strip tease while playing Hamlet] This chap's taking license in my view?