Tentacles (1977)

John Huston: Ned Turner

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Quotes 

• Tillie Turner : You know... Frank has got a sister.

  Ned Turner : Frank's got two sisters. One's uglier than the other.

• Ned Turner : Have you never heard 'Behind every great fortune is a crime'?

  Will Gleason : Yes, sir. I also heard 'Never bullshit a bullshitter'.

• Ned Turner : Will, I've heard the suckers on a tentacles are like the claws on a tiger.

  Will Gleason : Compared to suckers on a tentacle, claws are nothing, Mr. Turner. Nothing.

• Ned Turner : Turner, do me a favor, will you? Don't play up the sensation stuff when you write your story. Now, don't say 'mysterious circumstances, strange occurences', huh? Just very simple, 'cause of death: unknown', alright? I mean, we get the rumors started, I'm gonna have wall-to-wall people. Then, we'll never get to the bottom of what happened.

  Ned Turner : What happened? It's happened. If you want my opinion, we're - in for a nightmare.

• Ned Turner : There must be something - monstrous out there. Monstrous.

• Tillie Turner : Why are all the lights on? However, did you work all night? Come on, didn't Mama tell you that was bad for your eyes?

  Ned Turner : And she told you to stay away from candy.

  Tillie Turner : What do you mean candy, little brother?

  [looks at her own body] 

  Tillie Turner : This isn't candy, this is passion.

  Ned Turner : And who did you seduce last night?

  Tillie Turner : Frank Linetti. You know, the bartender who works where Christine works? Oh, he's so young and beautiful and so Italian.

• Ned Turner : Well?

  Robards : Well, what?

  Ned Turner : Got any answers?

  Robards : I don't even know where to start asking questions.