Arthur: I race cars, play tennis, and fondle women, BUT I have weekends off, and I’m my own boss.
(I just realized this applied to me in HS and college, but with the exception of some weekends off and occasionally fondling Mrs H8_2_W8, it no longer does).
This is my favorite one, too. But the actual quote is, “Not all of us drink because we’re poets. Some of us drink because we’re not poets.”
One of my other beloved quotes is,
“Where the hell’s my hat??”
A friend of mine and I got stuck on this line and said it at every opportunity for years. Said friend and I have also seen this movie at least four hundred times and we have yet to get tired of it.
Arthur is one of my all time favorite movies; I’ve seen it well over a dozen times, although not in the last couple of years. I used to be able to recite the movie along with the cast, yet I was coming up with a complete blank here.
The only quote that’s still stuck in my mind, though nowhere near as good as some of these, is:
“I wish I had a nickel for every nickel I have.”
Of course, “It doesn’t suck” has been so much a part of my vocabulary for so long I’d totally forgotten where I’d heard it in the first place.
When Arthur’s father tells him that, if he doesn’t marry Susan, he’ll be cut off financially, and Arthur is trying to convince himself that Susan’s not all that bad: “Susan’s quite beautiful when the light hits her in a certain way- of course, you can’t depend on that light.”