The Tall Guy (1989)

Jeff Goldblum: Dexter King

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• Dexter : I hope all your children have very small dicks! And that includes the girls!

• Ron Anderson : Listen, Dexter, is there something troubling you? Something that you would like to talk to someone about?

  Dexter : Well, yes, as a matter of fact there is...

  Ron Anderson : Then for fuck's sake talk to someone about it, will you? And sort it out before I sack you and hire a lobotomized monkey to play your role. Okay?

• [Dexter is visiting Kate in her flat] 

  Kate : Sorry about last night, I was very tired.

  [pause] 

  Kate : I'm less tired now, though...

  Dexter : I'm not tired either.

  Kate : Great! Two people... on their own... in the middle of the afternoon... and not tired!

  [pause] 

  Dexter : Ideal circumstances for Scrabble.

• Tamara : I'm not wearing any underwear.

  Dexter : Is that, uh... is that... wise?

  Tamara : Screw wisdom! Who wants to be wise?

  Dexter : The Dalai Lama, to name but one.

• Ron Anderson : You're both sacked. I give you a week's notice.

  Dexter : You can't do that! I demand to talk to the producer.

  Ron Anderson : I am the producer.

  Dexter : In that case, you can do that but I'm not going to give you the satisfaction of sacking me because I resign!

  Ron Anderson : Fine, then you get no severance pay and I sue your arse for breach of contract.

  Dexter : In that case I don't resign, you total and utter bastard!

  Ron Anderson : [slams the door in Dexter's face] 

  Dexter : I hope all your children have very small dicks! And that includes the girls!

• Dexter : Please? Just dinner? Let me explain: I was a complete, total, utter idiot! I have learned my lesson completely, totally, utterly!

  Kate : Just dinner?

  Dexter : Promise!

  Kate : What? No sex at the end?

  Dexter : Well, maybe - sex? Yes! Alright, if you insist!

• Mary : Well, the only other thing at the moment is a new musical that the RSC are doing.

  Dexter : Er, what's it about?

  Mary : The Elephant Man.

  Dexter : A musical of the Elephant Man? What's it called?

  Mary : "Elephant", I think - with an exclamation mark presumably.

  Dexter : Pity the poor bastard who has to play the elephant.

  Mary : Remember dearest, everyone thought Jesus Christ Superstar was a stupid idea.

  Dexter : Jesus Christ Superstar WAS a stupid idea.

  Mary : True.

• Prostitute : Care for a fuck, big boy?

  Dexter : No thanks, just had one.

• Dexter : All these weeks I've been coming here, I've been wanting to ask you something. What I really want to know is... er, what's your name?

  Kate : Kate... Lemmon. Horrid name!

  Dexter : No, no, not at all. Could have been worse. Could have been called Hitler, Tampon, or something.

• Dexter : God take my testicles and fry them up with bacon!

• Dexter : How was your day?

  Kate : Not great. A nurses's day is always pretty grisly. A woman I was with gave birth to a baby in a lift.

  Dexter : Well, that was okay, er?

  Kate : It would have been, but her husband slipped on the afterbirth and broke his collarbone.

• Ron Anderson : [as he is being tied up by Dexter]  What the hell is going on?

  Dexter : I'll tell you what's going on - first you waste four years of my life! And then you take the only thing I ever really cared about!

  Ron Anderson : Your bicycle?

• Dexter : Vengeance shall be mine!

• Kate : [leaving Dexter]  You paused after mentioning her name, to see if I reacted.

  Dexter : That was your only clue?

• Mr. Morrow : Do you want my advice on questions of love?

  Dexter : Yes!

  Mr. Morrow : My advice is: go blind. Best thing that ever happened to me. Since 1944, every girl I've spent time with looks the spitting image of Mae West.

• Dexter : [can't believe his date is going well, runs to the bathroom and smashes his head against the condom machine a few times, then guiltily buys one]