Manhattan Quotes
Isaac Davis: I think that, under my personal vibrations, I could put her life in some kind of good order.
Yale: Yeah, that's what you said about Jill, and under your personal vibrations she went from bisexuality to homosexuality.
Isaac Davis: Yeah, but I gave her the old college try.
Yale: Yeah, that's what you said about Jill, and under your personal vibrations she went from bisexuality to homosexuality.
Isaac Davis: Yeah, but I gave her the old college try.
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Rizzo the Rat: [Rizzo walks by with a plate of food] Gangway! Coming through! Hey Watch it, will ya?
Fozzie Bear: Hey, that waiter's a rat!
Floyd: I'm glad we got no money, now I got no appetite.
Fozzie Bear: Hey, that waiter's a rat!
Floyd: I'm glad we got no money, now I got no appetite.
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Isaac Davis : I feel like we're in a Noel Coward play. Someone should be making martinis.
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[ first lines ] [ music: the opening of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Voiceover ]
Isaac Davis : Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Eh uh, no, make that he, he romanticized it all out of proportion. Better. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. Uh, no, let me start this over.
Isaac Davis : Chapter One: He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street smart guys who seemed to know all the angles. Ah, corny, too corny for, you know, my taste. Let me, let me try and make it more profound.
Isaac Davis : Chapter One: He adored New York City. To him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of individual integrity that caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams in - no, it's gonna be too preachy, I mean, you know, let's face it, I wanna sell some books here.
Isaac Davis : Chapter One: He adored New York City. Although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. How hard it was to exist in a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage - too angry. I don't want to be angry.
Isaac Davis : Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. Oh, I love this. New York was his town, and it always would be.
Isaac Davis : Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Eh uh, no, make that he, he romanticized it all out of proportion. Better. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. Uh, no, let me start this over.
Isaac Davis : Chapter One: He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street smart guys who seemed to know all the angles. Ah, corny, too corny for, you know, my taste. Let me, let me try and make it more profound.
Isaac Davis : Chapter One: He adored New York City. To him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of individual integrity that caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams in - no, it's gonna be too preachy, I mean, you know, let's face it, I wanna sell some books here.
Isaac Davis : Chapter One: He adored New York City. Although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. How hard it was to exist in a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage - too angry. I don't want to be angry.
Isaac Davis : Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. Oh, I love this. New York was his town, and it always would be.
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Tracy : Let's fool around. Let's do it some strange way that you've always wanted to, but nobody would do with you.
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Isaac Davis : She's 17. I'm 42 and she's 17. I'm older than her father, can you believe that? I'm dating a girl, wherein, I can beat up her father.
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Yale : You are so self-righteous, you know. I mean we're just people. We're just human beings, you know? You think you're God.
Isaac Davis : I... I gotta model myself after someone.
Isaac Davis : I... I gotta model myself after someone.
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Isaac Davis : This is so antiseptic. It's empty. Why do you think this is funny? You're going by audience reaction? This is an audience that's raised on television, their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!
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Party Guest : I finally had an orgasm, and my doctor said it was the wrong kind.
Isaac Davis : You had the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind, ever. My worst one was right on the money.
Isaac Davis : You had the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind, ever. My worst one was right on the money.
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Isaac Davis : Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Y'know, I read this in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, y'know, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to them.
Party Guest : There is this devastating satirical piece on that on the Op Ed page of the Times, it is devastating.
Isaac Davis : Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point.
Party Guest : There is this devastating satirical piece on that on the Op Ed page of the Times, it is devastating.
Isaac Davis : Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point.
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[ On her ex-husband ]
Mary Wilke : I was tired of submerging my identity to a very brilliant, dominating man. He's a genius.
Isaac Davis : Oh really, he was a genius, Helen's a genius and Dennis is a genius. You know a lot of geniuses, y'know. You should meet some stupid people once in a while, y'know, you could learn something.
Mary Wilke : I was tired of submerging my identity to a very brilliant, dominating man. He's a genius.
Isaac Davis : Oh really, he was a genius, Helen's a genius and Dennis is a genius. You know a lot of geniuses, y'know. You should meet some stupid people once in a while, y'know, you could learn something.
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Isaac Davis : It's an interesting group of people, your friends are.
Mary Wilke : I know.
Isaac Davis : Like the cast of a Fellini movie.
Mary Wilke : I know.
Isaac Davis : Like the cast of a Fellini movie.
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Mary Wilke : I'm honest, whaddya want? I say what's on my mind and, if you can't take it, well then fuck off!
Isaac Davis : And I like the way you express yourself too, y'know, it's pithy yet degenerate. You get many dates?
Isaac Davis : And I like the way you express yourself too, y'know, it's pithy yet degenerate. You get many dates?
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Mary Wilke : Well tell me, why did you get a divorce?
Isaac Davis : Why? I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman.
Mary Wilke : Really? God, that must have been really demoralizing.
Isaac Davis : Well, I dunno, I thought I took it rather well under the circumstances. I tried to run them both over with a car.
Isaac Davis : Why? I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman.
Mary Wilke : Really? God, that must have been really demoralizing.
Isaac Davis : Well, I dunno, I thought I took it rather well under the circumstances. I tried to run them both over with a car.
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Isaac Davis : I got a kid, he's being raised by two women at the moment.
Mary Wilke : Oh, y'know, I mean I think that works. Uh, they made some studies, I read in one of the psychoanalytic quarterlies. You don't need a male, I mean. Two mothers are absolutely fine.
Isaac Davis : Really? Because I always feel very few people survive one mother.
Mary Wilke : Oh, y'know, I mean I think that works. Uh, they made some studies, I read in one of the psychoanalytic quarterlies. You don't need a male, I mean. Two mothers are absolutely fine.
Isaac Davis : Really? Because I always feel very few people survive one mother.
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Pizzeria Waiter : Who ordered the green peppers? Was that you? Must've been. Anchovies, sausage, mushrooms, garlic and green peppers.
Isaac Davis : Forgot the coconut.
Isaac Davis : Forgot the coconut.
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Isaac Davis : No, I didn't read the piece on China's faceless masses, I was, I was checking out the lingerie ads.
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Mary Wilke : I guess I should straighten my life out, huh? I mean, Donnie my analyst is always telling me...
Isaac Davis : You call your analyst Donnie?
Mary Wilke : Yeah, I call him Donnie.
Isaac Davis : Donnie, your analyst? I call mine Dr. Chomsky, y'know, he hits me with a ruler.
Isaac Davis : You call your analyst Donnie?
Mary Wilke : Yeah, I call him Donnie.
Isaac Davis : Donnie, your analyst? I call mine Dr. Chomsky, y'know, he hits me with a ruler.
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Isaac Davis : It's brown water! I'm paying seven-hundred dollars a month, I got rats with bongos and a, and a frog and I got brown water here.
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Yale : You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you.
Mary Wilke : Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.
Mary Wilke : Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.
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Isaac Davis : You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, y'know? You would have ended all argument between them. I mean, He would have pointed to you and said, y'know, "I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these." You know? And then Job would have said, "Eh. Yeah, well, you win."
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Tracy : Let's fool around, it'll take your mind off it.
Isaac Davis : Hey, how many times a night can you, how, how often can you make love in an evening?
Tracy : Well, a lot.
Isaac Davis : Yeah! I can tell, a lot. That's, well, a lot is my favorite number.
Isaac Davis : Hey, how many times a night can you, how, how often can you make love in an evening?
Tracy : Well, a lot.
Isaac Davis : Yeah! I can tell, a lot. That's, well, a lot is my favorite number.
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Mary Wilke : Don't psychoanalyze me. I pay a doctor for that.
Isaac Davis : Hey, you call that guy that you talk to a doctor? I mean, you don't get suspicious when your analyst calls you at home at three in the morning and weeps into the telephone?
Mary Wilke : All right, so he's unorthodox. He's a highly qualified doctor.
Isaac Davis : He's done a great job on you, y'know. Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.
Isaac Davis : Hey, you call that guy that you talk to a doctor? I mean, you don't get suspicious when your analyst calls you at home at three in the morning and weeps into the telephone?
Mary Wilke : All right, so he's unorthodox. He's a highly qualified doctor.
Isaac Davis : He's done a great job on you, y'know. Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.
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Isaac Davis : I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion.
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Isaac Davis : I think that, under my personal vibrations, I could put her life in some kind of good order.
Yale : Yeah, that's what you said about Jill, and under your personal vibrations she went from bisexuality to homosexuality.
Isaac Davis : Yeah, but I gave her the old college try.
Yale : Yeah, that's what you said about Jill, and under your personal vibrations she went from bisexuality to homosexuality.
Isaac Davis : Yeah, but I gave her the old college try.
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Isaac Davis : You honestly think that I tried to run you over?
Connie : You just happened to hit the gas as I walked in front of the car?
Isaac Davis : Did I do it on purpose?
Jill : Well, what would Freud say?
Isaac Davis : Freud would say I really wanted to run her over, that's why he was a genius.
Connie : You just happened to hit the gas as I walked in front of the car?
Isaac Davis : Did I do it on purpose?
Jill : Well, what would Freud say?
Isaac Davis : Freud would say I really wanted to run her over, that's why he was a genius.
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