The Long Summer of George Adams (1982 TV Movie)

James Garner: George Adams

Quotes 

• Ann Sharp : What exactly do you do?

  George Adams : Exactly? Well, I'm a steam fitter, and a swamper, and a pumper, and a air-monkey, and a car toad, and a cinder cruncher, and a diamond cracker.¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ Oh, I'm a wiper and a mechanic. And then, just to keep myself busy, I'm the night watchman for the town here.

• Norma : You scrub backs as well, I imagine?

  George Adams : Oh, madam, madam. Our firm is world-famous for scrubbing backs... The only thing we can't scrub is a dirty mind. Now, madam, if you will kindly disrobe, I'll lock that door.

• Ernie : I must be goin' psycho or something. I smell dead Commies.

  George Adams : Oh, those are loyal American chickens. I got a feelin' the Summers produce house suffered some heavy losses recently.

  Ernie : Yeah, it's a very lousy smell.

  George Adams : Well, I'm talkin' to Floyd Summers.

  Ernie : Well, don't wait.

• George Adams : Well, what's it gonna be, huh? Now come on... gonna' be the GI bill or what?

  Ernie : I'm still sufferin' from combat fatigue. I'm thinkin' in terms of beer drinkin', fishin' and girls. And not necessarily in that order. Which reminds me, how is your sister-in-law?

  George Adams : Well, why don't you go find out for yourself?

  Ernie : Beauty, brawn and brains.

  George Adams : We raised her in an atmosphere of culture. Are you interested?

  Ernie : I'm keepin' my plans loose for the moment.

• Norma : George, what about our trip to Wichita?

  George Adams : OK, you can go to Wichita. Take the boys and Mandy.

  Norma : Thank you, George.

  George Adams : On one condition.

  Norma : Anything you say.

  George Adams : Before you leave, I would like to feel that our marriage had a little more passion in it.

  Norma : George, that doesn't sound like a condition to me. That sounds like a deal.

  George Adams : OK. Is it a deal?

  Norma : Deal.

  George Adams : Howdy-do.

• Norma : What do you want me to say?

  George Adams : Well, you could say, "George, I am consumed by a sudden desire for you and I would truly enjoy making love with you at this delightfully unconventional hour of the day." Or, you might even say, "Don't mind if I do, George."

• Ernie : See, a woman is a cello.

  George Adams : Huh?

  Ernie : A woman is a cello, and man must fiddle with great finesse otherwise no beautiful music is forthcoming.

• Ann Sharp : There's a peculiar fragrance in the air around here, isn't there?

  George Adams : Yeah, well it's not me, lady. No, it's the Summers produce house over there. They raise chickens. Sometimes the live ones smell a little worse than the dead ones.

• Ernie : Well, mornin' George. I hope I'm not interruptin' anything.

  George Adams : It's afternoon, Ernie, and this is Miss Sharp.

  Ernie : Mmm, hmm. Sure is.

• George Adams : Miss Sharp's here to do a story on the typical Oklahoma town with an empty water tower.

  Ann Sharp : It's symbolic, I think. You know, the locomotive going the way of your ancient tower.

  Ernie : You know, I couldn't agree with ya more. I'm Ernie Lankford.

• George Adams : He's our town bum.

  Ernie : Now that's not exactly correct. What I am is a Korean War hero recently returned from battle. I'm just working on the bum part of my career.

• Ann Sharp : A friend?

  George Adams : No, that's uh one of the Summers boys. He belongs with those dead chickens.

  George Adams : [George shouts to Olin who's approaching]  We's just talkin' about you, Olin. Seems we need somebody with a little more brawn than brains to climb up the tower there, for the nice lady.

  Olin Summers : Heh. I knowed I was needed.

• George Adams : Who told her about the lady reporter?

  Norma : Ada May.

  George Adams : Oh, I tell ya, that Ada May. With just a little bit of training, she could probably be the greatest FBI agent in the USA.

• Ernie : [after shooting a bank robber]  You know what I think, George?

  George Adams : Don't tell me.

  Ernie : I think I got homicidal tendencies. I'm just a homicidal maniac, that's me.

  George Adams : He was robbin' a bank, and he's still livin'.

• George Adams : Now look, honey, I'm not your daddy, but I feel a certain responsibility. And I wish you'd stay home tonight.

  Mandy : Why? Just because I'm goin' out with Olin? Olin is not going to do...

  George Adams : Oh, he is, he definitely... and he fully intends to.

  Mandy : We're just goin' to a movie.

  George Adams : Walk in or drive-in?

  Mandy : How do you know he's a wolf?

  George Adams : Look, I know, Mandy. I just know.

• George Adams : Ernie, Ernie, you're drunk.

  Ernie : I'm gonna kill me a buzzard.

  George Adams : Yeah, who?

  Ernie : Olin. Olin Summers.

  George Adams : Olin? Why?

  Ernie : He took out Mandy.

  George Adams : Oh, whatta you care? I thought you were hot after that... that lady.

  Ernie : George, George, a man can't marry a body. A man's gotta marry a person.

• George Adams : Do you know what a stationary fireman does? He looks at gauges all day. For eight hours a day, he does nothing but look at gauges.

  Norma : Uh, George. I don't think it's day work... You'll be working the night shift in Gunther.

• Norma : George, does this mean we're gonna be farmers?

  George Adams : Farmers sleep nights don't they? They eat whatever they grow, and they sleep whenever they want to. And they don't have to live in Gunther.