Roxanne Quotes

C.D. Bales: You must know about M31.
Roxanne Kowalski: Yeah.
C.D. Bales: Now, see, I like it when they give astronomical objects names, you know, like "Andromeda" and "Saturn" and "Sea of Tranquility." This whole numbering thing is just too boring for us civilians.
Roxanne Kowalski: Do you know how many objects are up there?
C.D. Bales: Well, I know it's over fifty.

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C.D. Bales: [about Roxanne's comet] So what do you get if you're right about this thing?
Roxanne Kowalski: Well, I graduate, that's for sure. And I get to name it.
C.D. Bales: Oh, that'd be great, kind of historical.
Roxanne Kowalski: Yeah. Comet Kowalski.
C.D. Bales: Kowalski? Why? You've got a chance to give it a beautiful name!
Roxanne Kowalski: That's my name.
C.D. Bales: It is? Roxanne Kowalski? Oh, heh-heh... sorry.

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Chris McConnell: [Roxanne spies Chris in a bookstore] Hey, did that copy of 'Being and Nothingness,' by Jean...
Stationery Clerk: Jean-Paul Sartre? Yes, it did. I got it right here! It's all paid for.
Chris McConnell: Great! Okay, thanks a lot.
Stationery Clerk: De rien. Il n'y a pas de quoi.
Chris McConnell: All right, okay...
Stationery Clerk: It ain't nothing, bro!
Chris McConnell: [reading as he exits bookstore] "... therefore my body is a conscious structure of my consciousness..."
Andy: Yeah. Thanks, Chris. I was too embarrassed to go in there and ask for it myself.
Chris McConnell: A little light reading, huh, Andy?

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Chris McConnell: [after Chris accidentally insults C.D.'s nose] Aren't you going to kill me? The guys said...
C.D. Bales: Oh, ordinarily, yeah, but not today.
Chris McConnell: How come?
C.D. Bales: Because yesterday... she doesn't. But today... she does. [They laugh together, as the guys come back in]
Chuck: So you finally got a sense of humor about your nose. [C.D. grabs his tie and slams him against the wall, causing the guys to run out again]

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Roxanne Kowalski: Well, if I do change my mind, you'll know because my breasts will be heaving and moist with perspiration.

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[after C.D. opens the door to her house]
Roxanne Kowalski: Do you want to come in...? [She comes in, and sees he is already in the kitchen, preparing some cheese and vegetable cutlets]
C.D. Bales: Uh, I sort of already did. I figured you must be starving, so I just made us some cheese and vegetables, au naturel...
Roxanne Kowalski: Maybe you'd like some wine with your nose... [C.D. cuts a piece of cheese, unusually forcefully]
Roxanne Kowalski: ...cheese.

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