Terms of Endearment (1983)
Jack Nicholson: Garrett Breedlove
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Quotes
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Aurora Greenway : Do you have any reaction at all to my telling you I love you?
Garrett Breedlove : I was just inches from a clean getaway.
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[Lying in the surf after being thrown from the car]
Garrett Breedlove : If you wanted to get me on my back, all you had to do was ask me.
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[Arriving back from their first date]
Aurora Greenway : Would you like to come in?
Garrett Breedlove : I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
Aurora Greenway : Everything would have been just fine, you know, if you hadn't gotten drunk. I was... I... I just didn't want you to think I was like one of your other girls.
Garrett Breedlove : Not much danger in that unless you curtsy on my face real soon.
Aurora Greenway : Garrett! What is it that makes you so insistent on shocking and insulting me? I mean, I really hate that way of talking. You must know this. Why do you do it?
Garrett Breedlove : I'll tell you, Aurora. I don't know what it is about you, but you do bring out the devil in me.
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Garrett Breedlove : I like the lights on.
Aurora Greenway : Then go home and turn them on.
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Garrett Breedlove : Wind in the hair! Lead in the pencil!
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Garrett Breedlove : You're just going to have to trust me about this one thing. You need a lot of drinks.
Aurora Greenway : To break the ice?
Garrett Breedlove : To kill the bug that you have up your ass.
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Garrett Breedlove : [on their first date] Aurora...
Aurora Greenway : Yes?
Garrett Breedlove : You're not *fun*, by any chance, are you?
Aurora Greenway : I don't really think we should think about that right now.
[pause]
Aurora Greenway : Impatient boys sometimes miss dessert!
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Garrett Breedlove : A hundred and six astronauts in the whole fucking world and I'm one of 'em!
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Aurora Greenway : If I don't answer the bell, that means the back door's open.
Garrett Breedlove : The back door's open?
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Aurora Greenway : I'm inviting you to come over and look at my Renoir.
Garrett Breedlove : You're inviting me to bed.
Aurora Greenway : It happens to be in my bedroom.
Garrett Breedlove : Is the Renoir under the covers?
Aurora Greenway : Don't cackle, Garrett. Do you want to see it?
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Garrett Breedlove : Breedlove at the helm! Just keep pumping that throttle! Keep giving it that gas! I see the Gulf of Mexico below me!
Aurora Greenway : I'm not enjoying this!