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Benny & Joon (1993)

Quotes

Benny & Joon

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  • Sam: You don't like raisins?
  • Joon: Not really.
  • Sam: Why?
  • Joon: They used to be fat and juicy and now they're twisted. They had their lives stolen. Well, they taste sweet, but really they're just humiliated grapes. I can't say I am a big supporter of the raisin council.
  • Sam: Did you see those, those raisins on TV? The ones that sing and dance and stuff?
  • Joon: They scare me.
  • Sam: Yeah me too
  • Joon: It's sick. The commercial people they make them sing and dance so people will eat them.
  • Sam: It's a shame about raisins.
  • Joon: Cannibals.
  • Sam: Yeah. Do you like avocados?
  • Joon: They're a fruit you know.
  • Sam: Ruthie, do you got any avocados?
  • Joon: Having a Boo Radley moment, are we?
  • Joon: Did you have to go to school for that?
  • Sam: No, no, I got thrown out of school for that.
  • Sam: How sick is she?
  • Benny: She's plenty sick. Now listen to me, I've been doin' some thinkin'...
  • Sam: Because, you know, it seems to me that, I mean, except for being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal.
  • Joon: Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese.
  • Joon: She was given to fits of semi-precious metaphors.
  • Benny: The woman is a housekeeper, Joon, not an English professor.
  • Benny: Hey. Where's Sam?
  • Joon: I didn't mean to kick him out. I mean, I didn't kick him out, he just - he just left.
  • Benny: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What - What happened? Did something happen?
  • Joon: He just - he just left. He was - he was in the air and-and-and - with a thing and - that was really loud. It was really loud. And all- I-I just kept seeing... He didn't mean to do it.
  • Benny: Do it? What? What- Did he- What did he do?
  • Joon: He cleaned the house.
  • Sam: Oh my God! "I've just been looking for my boyfriend. Have you seen him? He's a cute guy with a little mole on his right cheek."
  • Local: Hey, Ruthie. One of your ghosts come back to haunt ya?
  • Sam: "AH! Oh, Brad! Oh, Brad. Brad, please don't be dead. Brad, I never had a chance to tell you what you meant to me. Oh, Brad, please!" It's you! You're you! Ruthie Melony, co-star of the Prom Queen Mutilator with Dick Bebe!
  • Ruthie: You saw that?
  • Sam: "He was mine! He was mine!" "No, Cindy. You're sick. Cindy, you need help. No, Cindy! No, no!"
  • Joon: You can't throw him out, I won him!
  • Sam: Mommy?
  • Joon: Should we let him in?
  • Benny: Yeah, before someone slaps a stamp on him and sends him to Guam.
  • Joon: He can really cook, can't he?
  • Benny: Uh, yeah. Although for grilled cheese, I mighta used a wool setting.
  • Joon: That's what I told him.
  • Benny: Really? What-what did he use?
  • Joon: Rayon.
  • Benny: Mm.
  • Joon: Silk would have been too soggy. Cotton would have...
  • Benny: Would have burned it.
  • Joon: Right. Fortunately, he consulted me before giving it steam. I was four square against it.
  • Joon: I lost...
  • Benny: What's in the pot?
  • Joon: A cousin.
  • Sam: [takes "Help Wanted" sign from window of video store and walks to manager] I wanna help...
  • Mike: [about Sam] He keeps me up at night watching stupid old movies, my work is starting to suffer.
  • Joon: You install cable.
  • Joon: Have we an internal sequin issue to deal with, Benjamin?
  • Sam: Joon.
  • Joon: What?
  • Sam: I-I love you.
  • Joon: Me too.
  • Joon: [door opens; gets up] Don't tell Benny.
  • Sam: Okay.
  • Benny: I hope you're happy... I hope you're happy with what you have done to her.
  • [throws Sam against wall]
  • Benny: You just stay the hell away from my sister.
  • Sam: [shakes his head] No... no.
  • Benny: You wanna know why everyone laughs at you, Sam? Because you're an idiot. You're a first-class *moron*.
  • [lets go of Sam. Pauses]
  • Sam: [nodding head while stumbling slowly away] You're scared, Benny.
  • Benny: I'm *what*?
  • Sam: You're scared. I can see it... And I know why. I used to look up to you. But... uh... now I can't look at you at all.
  • [walks out of hospital]
  • Joon: Don't underestimate the mentally ill. We know how to count.
  • [looking at Joon's ear]
  • Sam: Kirk Douglas... Van Gogh... ear.
  • Benny: You can't bet a human being!
  • Benny: So why'd you leave?
  • Ruthie: L.A.? I wasn't that good of an actress.
  • Benny: Well, that's not how Sam tells it. He's raving about you.
  • Ruthie: Yeah, well, he's sweeter than he is judgmental. How long have you known him?
  • Benny: Sam? Uh, 72 hours.
  • Ruthie: Be serious.
  • Benny: I am... serious.
  • Ruthie: Really?
  • Benny: I'm always serious. I'm too serious.
  • Mike: [betting in poker] Box of 30-aught-6 cartridges.
  • Joon: Medium-sized, green-haired troll.
  • Thomas: Soap-on-a-rope, slightly used.
  • Thomas: [Sam falls from outside Joon's window and lands in the bushes] Sam! Sam are you alright?
  • Sam: Ow, ow.
  • Sam: I'm Sam.
  • Benny: So I hear. I'm Benny.
  • Sam: With an 'n'?
  • Benny: Yea two of 'em. This is Joon.
  • Sam: With an 'n'?
  • Joon: One. You're out of your tree.
  • Sam: It's not my tree.
  • Sam: Thanks for the couch. Um... Mike made me sleep under the sink.
  • [while playing cards]
  • Eric: Salad shooter!
  • Sam: Tapioca?
  • Joon: [police find Joon wearing a snorkle and directing traffic with a ping pong paddle] I have every right to be outside, Officer, I have every right.
  • Joon: He's not my Smail!
  • [last lines]
  • Ruthie: Haven't we tried this before?
  • Benny: [presenting flowers] Yeah, but my life's a lot less complicated now.
  • Ruthie: Is Joon inside? Yeah.
  • Benny: Yeah? OK...
  • [brings flowers inside and sees Joon "ironing" cheese sandwiches with Sam]
  • Joon: Why do you hate me so much?
  • Benny: I don't hate you.
  • Joon: You need me to be sick.
  • [first lines]
  • Randy Burch: So we're planning our next vacation, right? I want Australia, she wants Italy. I like snorkeling, she likes garlic. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, she says to me: Do I need her? Jesus, Benny. What kind of a question is that? I mean, "need?" What does it really mean to need someone?
  • Eric: Benny, fuel line!
  • [and the phone begins ringing]
  • Benny: Hey Waldo, could you answer that phone?
  • Waldo: Hello?
  • UPS Man: [walks in] I need a check, Benny. COD.
  • Benny: In a minute. Meet me in the office.
  • UPS Man: All right...
  • Benny: [about Randy's cigarette] Whoa! Put that out! I got a fuel line broke.
  • Waldo: Hey, Benny. Joon's on the phone again.
  • Benny: Well, tell her I'll call her back. Find out what she wants.
  • Waldo: It's an emergency. She says you're runnin' low on Peanut Butter Super Chunks.
  • Benny: [under his breath] An emergency...
  • Mrs. Smail: [about taking care of Joon] In Ireland, we have a sayin'. "When a boat runs ashore, the sea has spoken."
  • Benny: I can't be worried about you knocking another housekeeper into retirement. First, it was Mrs. Larkspur.
  • Joon: A woman deeply and hygienically disturbed. Her hair smelled.
  • Eric: [on the phone] Get your ass over here. Don't forget the Louis Prima record. Remember, always play for keeps.
  • Benny: You got a roommate? When'd you get a roommate?
  • Mike: Since last week. My cousin pounded into town and life's gone from heaven to hell in seven days.
  • Joon: You're out of your tree.
  • Sam: It's not my tree.
  • Benny: I think I need a beer.
  • Mike: I thought he was bluffin'.
  • Thomas: Will someone get some air to his brain? He was bluffing about bluffing.
  • Benny: D'you ever get to the point in your life where nothin' makes any sense?
  • Benny: Where's Waldo? Is he not here yet?
  • Dr. Garvey: Joon tells me he's a man.
  • Benny: Well, you know Joon, how flowery she gets with words.
  • Dr. Garvey: So she's lying? I mean, is it a man or isn't it?
  • Benny: Well - yes, technically. He's really just a guy.
  • Benny, Joon: [singing] The melodious songs of the blessed, And our spirits shall sorrow no more, Not a sigh for the blessing of rest, In the sweet by-and-by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore, In the sweet by-and-by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore...
  • Joon: So are you and Ruthie considering itemhood? Are you?
  • [singing]
  • Joon: Benjamin and Ruthjamin, Sittin' in a tree, K-i-s-s-i-n-g, First comes love...
  • Benny: *You* are crazy!
  • Joon: I am not crazy.
  • Benny: Do you realize you could be the next Buster Keaton?
  • Joon: Who died and made you Ed McMahon?
  • Ruthie: Do you want to come in for a while? I - um - I got that beer waiting for you.
  • Benny: You know what? I should probably go.
  • Ruthie: Okay.
  • Benny: Listen. Can I - can I tell you somethin'?
  • Ruthie: What?
  • Benny: Um - you see, my life is just real - complicated, and...
  • Ruthie: Gimme a break, Benny. I just offered you a beer, okay?
  • Sam: Benny, Joon and - and I - are - you know.
  • Joon: [observing Sam sitting and sulking on top of a neighborhood mail box] Maybe I should invite him back in.
  • Benny: Yeah, before someone gets sticks a stamp on his head and mails him to Guam.

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