Twice in a Lifetime (1985)

Gene Hackman: Harry

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• Harry : It's been a long time since I haven't known for certain what a day had in store for me

• Sunny : Hey Dad. In case you forgot, this is my mother.

  Harry : What do you mean by that?

  Sunny : Your wife! That's what I mean by that.

  Harry : Well, I sure as hell know who my wife is, yes.

  Sunny : I'd sure in hell like to know who this is.

  Harry : Well, that's Miss Minelli, in case you're - interested and if it's any of your business, which, of course, it is not.

  Sunny : Which I'm here to tell you it is.

• Audrey Minelli : When I got out of bed this morning, something told me to get back in.

  Harry : Why didn't you?

  Audrey Minelli : I'm a big girl. I make my own decisions.

• Man on Stairs : You're lookin' good, Harry. What happened?

  Harry : Well, I started drinkin' again.

• Kate MacKenzie : We don't want them to think we've been fooling around.

  Harry : Maybe we do want them to...

  [pinches Kate's behind] 

  Kate MacKenzie : Oh!

• Nick : Hey, what's the matter? Kate's not here? Where's Kate?

  Harry : Nah, she's home watching TV.

  Nick : Jesus Christ, that fuckin' TV. On your birthday, too. I tell you, that box is destroyin' family life.

• Audrey Minelli : Here's to the next 50.

  Harry : Hey, you're not supposed to have heard that.

  Audrey Minelli : It's no big deal. Ronald Reagan's 70 - over.

  Harry : Yeah, but his hair's still 50.

• Kate MacKenzie : Happy Birthday.

  Harry : I'm getting too old for this, you know.

  Kate MacKenzie : You are not - getting too old.

• Harry : Nice shopping mall you got here. It's bigger than ours. A lot.

  Audrey Minelli : Thanks. You should see our gas station.

  Harry : Oh, I'd like to.

• Harry : I didn't think you'd come. I - I'm glad you did. But, I didn't think you would.

  Audrey Minelli : Well, I have.

  Harry : Yeah, you have.

• Nick : Wow, she's pretty fine to be workin' in a place like this, huh?

  Harry : Yeah, I'm pretty fine myself. What do you think of that?

  Nick : Yes, I know; but, you don't have an ass like a peach.

  [pinches Harry's behind] 

• Audrey Minelli : He kept me up on this pedestal and he never let me down. It's okay for a statue, maybe.

  Harry : But, not for a woman.

  Audrey Minelli : Yeah.

• Harry : I can't live my life for the steel mill. It get's my time, but, it don't get my enthusiasm. What it gets out of me, it pays for.

• Harry : My buddy Nick was supposed to cover for me in case - in case she asked. So, no pain would be caused.

  Audrey Minelli : Sometimes pain needs causing - to shake everybody up.

• Harry : What's so funny?

  Audrey Minelli : Oh, nothing. You just look delicious, that's all.

• Audrey Minelli : [laying on top of Harry]  Oh, oh. You're a sexy man, you know that?

  Harry : Oh, bull shit.

  Audrey Minelli : Yes. Yes, you are. You are. Relax.

• Harry : Why don't you throw me your negligee, I'll really get you going.

• Harry : I'm not just a guy in a bar, you know. I love you.

  Audrey Minelli : Oh, yeah?

  Harry : Yeah.

  Audrey Minelli : Prove it. Prove it to me. Don't give me any okays any more. "It's going to be okay." You know what? It's not going to be okay. If we're going to make it, it's got to be nothing but you and me. Nothing but us. I can't take it any more. It's got to be nothing but us.

• Betty : Alright, you guys, cut it out! This is a respectable joint I run here.

  Harry : Hey, show us your tits!

  Betty : Yeah, Harry, that's the way it all starts.

  Harry : You should know!

• Nick : You're asking me for too much.

  Harry : Hey, I stopped asking. Go fuck yourself!

• Harry : Listen to me, okay. You're jealous.

  Nick : I'm jealous? Jealous of who?

  Harry : Yeah. Of Audrey, that's who. Cause she has me - and me, cause I had her.

  Nick : Bull shit!

  Harry : No, no, no. That's the truth and you know it. You know, you and me, we been hanging out together like a couple of old fags for years! You see more of me than you do your wife.

• Harry : [to Nick]  Go jerk yourself off, huh?

  Millie : Well said, Harry.

  Harry : I thought you were deaf, Millie.

  [Millie laughs] 

• Keith : You're drivin' my wife crazy.

  Harry : Well, you're drivin' me crazy.

  Keith : My wife is drivin' me crazy.

  Harry : You're drivin' me crazy, you know. Your wife - keep your wife out of this, alright. If we were talking about your wife, I'll do the talking.

  Keith : You want to talk about my wife?

  Harry : No, I don't! Okay?

• Harry : I'm sorry.

  Keith : Well, I don't wanna hear you're sorry cause you got no sorries to give.

  Harry : How's that?

  Keith : You're fuckin' your family up with your eyes wide open, so don't tell me you're sorry.

• Harry : You're my round, sweet-smellin' female. I live, breathe, drink, and eat you every lousy day of my life.

• Kate MacKenzie : You're my best friend.

  Harry : Yeah, I know. That's not enough. We could plod along, of course we could. Everybody else has to. But, I don't. I got a chance. And she's my chance. I'm not going to give it up.

  Kate MacKenzie : What about me? Don't I deserve a chance?

• Kate MacKenzie : It's sex, then. With her, it's sex.

  Harry : Of course it's sex. It's important.

• Harry : I've got something to say to you.

  Nick : Oh, you got something to say to me?

  Harry : Yeah.

  Nick : Yeah, fuck you. What have you got to say?

  Harry : Hey, it's exactly what I was going to say.