Father of the Bride (1991)

Diane Keaton: Nina Banks

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• Nina Banks : [Waiting for Bryan to arrive]  So, can you see him? What does he look like?

  George : He just drove up.

  Nina Banks : And?

  George : He drove too fast.

• Nina Banks : [Nina comes to bail out George from the city lock-up]  Hello, George.

  George : Why do you look happy to see me in here, Nina?

  Nina Banks : Happy? No, no, no. I'm not happy George. You think I was happy to tell everyone that I had to come down to the city jail and bail you out for stealing hot dog buns?

  George : I wasn't stealing...

  Nina Banks : Ah!

  George : I was just...

  Nina Banks : Ah! I'm going to have to ask you not to talk, or I'll have to call Officer What's-his-name over there. You've been more than I can handle, George. Annie's wedding is not a conspiracy against you. It's just a wedding. People have them every day in every country in the world. I know it'g going to be expensive, but: we don't go to Europe. We don't own fancy cars. I don't own expensive jewelry, so we can afford to have a big wedding.

  George : Nina...

  Nina Banks : I'll get you out of here on one condition, Banks: that you agree to the following. Now, repeat after me. "I, George Stanley Banks..."

  George : [Swallowing his pride]  I, George Stanley Banks...

  Nina Banks : Promise to pull it together and act my age.

  George : I will stop hyperventilating, rolling my eyes, unbuttoning my top collar button...

  Nina Banks : I don't unbutton my top collar...

  George : Oh, no, you mean this bit here?

  [Motions to her collar] 

  Nina Banks : [Feeling his, realizing she is right]  I will stop hyperventilating, rolling my eyes, and unbuttoning my top collar button.

  George : I will stop making faces in general, and I will certainly stop telling everyone I meet how much this wedding is costing.

  Nina Banks : I don't tell everyone how much it costs!

  [Officer clears throat] 

  Nina Banks : He told you, right?

  Nina Banks : $250 a head?

  Nina Banks : Oh, well thanks.

  George : I will try to remember my daughter's feelings, and how, with every roll of my eyes, I am taking away a piece of her happiness.

  Nina Banks : I love you, Nina.

  Nina Banks : Just repeat the last bit.

  George : I will try to remember my daughter's feelings, and how, with every roll of my eyes, I am taking away a piece of her happiness.

  Nina Banks : I love you too. Let's go home, okay?

• Annie : Listen, I'm going to take Bryan for a drive and show him around.

  Nina Banks : Okay, honey. Good.

  George : Annie, it's a little nippy out. You might want to put on a sweater.

  Annie : No, Dad, it's okay. I'm kind of warm.

  George : There's a chill in the air, and you've been on a plane.

  Annie : Dad, I'm fine.

  Bryan : Annie, it is kind of cold out.

  Annie : It is?

  George : Yeah.

  Annie : Alright. Thanks. I'll get my jacket.

  George : [in voiceover]  Right then, I realized my day had passed. She'll always love me, of course, but not in the same way. I was no longer the man in my little girl's life. I was like an old shoe, the kind we manufacture and get all excited about and then, after a few years, discontinue. That was me now: Mr. Discontinued.

• Andrea - the Florist : In terms of the florals out front, we're going to color-coordinate with the swans, right?

  George : Swans?

  Nina Banks : Oh, I think it'd be wonderful.

  Andrea - the Florist : Perfect.

  George : We're having swans?

  Annie : Oh, sure, Franck thought it'd be great to have swans waddling around the tulip border, you know, as the guests enter.

  George : Nina, we don't have a tulip border.

  Andrea - the Florist : You will.

  [hands George the bill] 

• Nina Banks : I still think you see Annie as a seven year-old girl in pigtails!

• Nina Banks : [hugging George]  A wedding! Father of the Bride. Can you believe it?

  [George rolls his eyes] 

• Nina Banks : Good news. The church is free!

  George : Oh, finally something is free.

  Nina Banks : I meant - available.

• George : This is ridiculous! You're - too young to get married!

  Annie : Too young? Dad, I'm 22! If I'm not mistaken, that's a year older than Mom was when you guys got married.

  George : That is absolutely not true.

  Nina Banks : Oh, no, you're absolutely wrong.

  George : You were this age when I married you?

  Nina Banks : No. I was younger. I was this age when she was born.

• Nina Banks : I thought it was totally sincere.

  George : Oh, please. What about that little rehearsed speech he gave that was right out of a book, "How to Grease Your Future Mother-In-Law."

• Nina Banks : How did you two - uh - meet?

  Annie : Oh, we were the only two people at this revival house in Rome for a midnight show of "Bringing Up Baby." We kept hearing each other laugh.

  Bryan : And at all the same places.

• George : What about the way he kept touching her?

  Nina Banks : What do you mean?

  George : What do you mean, what do I mean? He couldn't keep his hands off of her.

  Nina Banks : Oh, yes, kind of like when we were engaged, except that wasn't all you couldn't keep off me.

  George : That was different. And we certainly never acted that way in your parent's house.

  Nina Banks : Oh! You want me to name all the rooms we did it in at my parent's house?

  George : That was different!

• George : I hate that expression, "in-laws." What does it mean, anyway? We're legally bound to these people? I don't want to be "in-lawed." Especially to people who live in Bel-Air. I mean, what kind of people have brunch and live in Bel-Air?

  Nina Banks : Rich people.

• George : You and I could end up shuffling along the sidewalk in our bathrobes. That was a joke.

  Nina Banks : [sarcastically]  Hilarious!