Flounder, in Animal House.
I probably wouldn’t have gotten it without the asterisks. When my dad would say that line he would Grrr at that word.
Michael Caine, perhaps?
Michael Caine as Milo Tindle in the 1972 version of Sleuth
…to which Laurence Olivier, as Andrew Wyke, responds "Yes, but as you’re a rank amateur, I’m sure you can overcome your scruples
Script by Anthony Schaffer, from his play.
Well, I was getting close. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen Sleuth, though I do remember when it came out. (I was in high school at the time.)
There is no winning! Only degrees of losing!
Me, too.
I’d already seen the play on Broadway. Patrick MacNee was playing Andrew Wyke, so they broadcast TV ads for the show during The Avengers. One of the first TV ads for a Broadway show that I can recall (predating even Ben Vereen’s ad for Pippin)
All apologies, but Olivier-as-Wyke’s reply in the movie is to focus on the Britishness rather than the amateurishness — with a quick “You could always conquer your Anglo-Saxon scruples.”
That doesn’t seem familisr to me. I might have been quoting the play.
Perhaps a visual aid will help:
And here too:
GOD, it’ll be beautiful.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The whole quote is fantastic. Judge Doom, as he’s describing his plan to route a freeway through Toontown:
“You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toontown once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it’ll be beautiful.”
Fast call! I love that quote, too. And I still use the final few words (sarcastically) when I negotiate particularly ugly freeway interchanges located in crummy neighborhoods.
New quote:
-You want the red or the white?
-Pour it in your ear.
Is that from Escape From New York? Cabbie?
ETA: Ah, never mind. Although I do think he says that.
“They’d have enough salt to last forever.”
Fast? I was out having lunch and reading the Dope on my phone, but I never post from it. Had to wait until I got home; was a little surprised no one had answered already.
Top Secret. Nick Rivers to Dr Flamond.
Correct.
“I’ve never made any secret of the fact that basically I’m on my way to Australia.”