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Dennis Farina, Jean Smart, Elon Gold, and Bonnie Somerville in In-Laws (2002)

Quotes

In-Laws

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  • Victor: Private convo time.
  • Marlene: Family dinners don't start until the whole family's here.
  • Alex: Where's Daddy?
  • Marlene: He's getting seconds.
  • Marlene: Call me old-fashioned, but when I was your age, nice girls brushed their hair after sex.
  • Matt: Oh, well, the truth is, and we didn't want to worry you but, uh, we had a flat.
  • Victor: Well, I don't see any grease on your hands. What'd you make my daughter change it?
  • Matt: Marlene, uh, this looks delicious.
  • Marlene: Oh, Matt, thanks. I would say it was effortless, but why lie? I broke my ass!
  • Alex: Looks like the new Marlene's ready to climb the corporate ladder.
  • Marlene: I'm not climbin' anything in this skirt. Unless, of course, I want to close the deal!
  • Stacy: Actually, now it's Stacy Pierson-Paulson. Peter's a partner at Patterson, Pennett & Paulson.
  • Alex: Did you meet him picking pecks of pickled peppers?
  • The Mattress King: She could do back-flips on her side of the bed and you'd sleep through it.
  • Matt: Why would I want to?
  • Alex: Ma, remember when you were in high school and there was a group of popular girls that were, like, oblivious to everyone else?
  • Marlene: No. It was just me and my friends.
  • Alex: Well, one day I was in the locker-room; I was changing for gym and, uh, Stacy and her friends dropped by. Stacy looked at me and she said, "Alex, I don't know whether to call you 'Dumbo' for your ears or 'Gumby' for your body." So she compromised and for the rest of high school, her and her friends called me "Dumby."
  • Matt: The trophies didn't move! The trophies didn't move!
  • Marlene: Wouldn't it be more alarming if they did?
  • Marlene: The men of this household are marking their territory. If I were you, I would just try to stay out of the way and not get sprayed!
  • Matt: I just crashed your Dad's car.
  • Alex: Yeah, nice try. He told me how great you did.
  • Matt: I'm serious. I smashed it pulling it into the garage. Then I kind of made it worse when I backed out. Then I took a deep breath, said, "Matt, relax," and smashed it again on the way in.
  • Alex: Oh my God! Oh, God! Oh, my God! Oh, God!
  • Matt: If that's a pep talk, it needs work!
  • Alex: Where are you going?
  • Matt: I don't know. Mostly I'll be sleeping by day and traveling under the cover of darkness. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm about to become a redhead.
  • Alex: One time, one of my Dad's favorite armed truck guards left a bag of money on the curb and he forgot to tell him. My Dad was so hurt and so betrayed he couldn't even speak. He just stared into space and started singing. After that, the guard was dead to him.
  • Matt: Was he dead to anyone else?
  • Matt: Marlene, can you, uh, keep a secret?
  • Marlene: No.
  • Matt: When you have to tell Victor some bad news, is there anything you do or say to soften the blow?
  • Marlene: Well, there is this one thing I do.
  • Matt: Please, I'm desperate.
  • Marlene: Usually I start by taking a bubble bath with him.
  • Matt: Is there any special soap?
  • Matt: This is partially your fault, y'know. Yeah, none of this would've happened if you had only said "no."
  • Alex: When?
  • Matt: When I asked you to marry me!
  • Marlene: You look good in leather. Well, everybody looks good in leather. Yeah, leather's lucky... well, except for cows.
  • Matt: Marlene, is it me or does your sledgehammer clash with that bag?
  • Marlene: I use this to hammer in my "For Sale" signs. You know, every time I swing it I feel like I'm driving in a golden spike on a whole new future and I smile. Although sometimes I hit a sprinkler line, then I just run!
  • Matt: That's so funny! You take your aggression out on a toy!
  • Victor: Be glad, Matt!
  • Marlene: Victor, does our insurance cover sledgehammer accidents?
  • Victor: No. Why?
  • Marlene: Nothing!
  • Alex: Hey, honey. What dress do you think I should wear Saturday night?
  • Matt: You're not wearing anything.
  • Alex: Okay. Where am I going to tuck in my napkin?
  • Matt: That's ridiculous!
  • Alex: It's crazy!
  • Matt: Insane!
  • Alex: Totally psycho!
  • Matt: Okay, if this argument has any chance, one of us is gonna have to disagree.
  • Victor: What the hell is that?
  • Matt: It's a C.D. The kids use it to play music.
  • Victor: Don't mock me! I know what a Compact Dish is!
  • Alex: Do you realize you are the first non-Pellet to ever go apple picking with us? It means you're becoming part of the family.
  • Matt: Oh, good, because I felt like marrying you and moving in with your parents was too subtle.
  • Victor: Still coming down. Matt, you must've washed that car but good!
  • Alex: Daddy!
  • Matt: Your father's right, the weather's my fault... along with world hunger and global warming.
  • Victor: What's going on?
  • Marlene: Alex wants Matt to fit in.
  • Victor: Where?
  • Marlene: Here.
  • Victor: Why?
  • [Victor and Marlene eavesdrop at the door]
  • Victor: What's going on now?
  • Marlene: Matt thinks we're listening.
  • Victor: That paranoid little bastard!
  • Victor: Just because I don't like someone doesn't mean that I don't have good manners. Now, if you'll excuse me, Matt.
  • Victor: If anything happened to Matt before I got the chance to kill him, I'll never forgive myself.
  • Victor: You see, Chip is your friend. He trusts you, so you're going to exploit that to talk him out of his dream. That way, Chip takes over the business, Charles retires, and I become King of Kings.
  • Matt: What are you, a James Bond villain?
  • Charles: I thought you were dining out with Chip and Sarah.
  • Matt: Yeah, but we kinda got into a fight.
  • Alex: Yeah. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to remove a certain couple from my buddy list.
  • Charles: Ah, vulgarity, the cane upon which a crippled wit hobbles!
  • Matt: So, how was the funeral?
  • Alex: You know, it was kind of sad. I've lived next door to Mr. Henderson all my life and I hardly talked to him.
  • Victor: Well, that's why he was a good neighbor!
  • Victor: I can't believe the big guy came knockin' for him so soon.
  • Matt: He was 97. I can't believe he heard the door!
  • Victor: Well, you'll never find a more thoughtful neighbor. He even had the decency to croak during the day, so that when the ambulance came, I was at work. Now that's class, brother!
  • Marlene: I'm the only person in the office who hasn't sold a house yet. People are beginning to talk. They call me "Can't Sell It Pellet."
  • Matt: So, someone said something in passing.
  • Marlene: They made it my screensaver!
  • Victor: Marlene didn't make me sleep on the couch. I fell asleep watching a documentary on The Discovery Channel.
  • Matt: Really? What was it about?
  • Victor: Turtles who are extinct because they don't mind their own business.
  • Matt: I, uh, hung a little Halloween decoration on the front porch and these two are making a big deal out of it.
  • Marlene: A decoration? Oh, good God, Matt, you've opened the gates of hell!
  • Victor: And then everything changed one faithful night.
  • Matt: I think you mean "fateful."
  • Victor: How would you know? You weren't even there!
  • Matt: Aren't you gonna wear goggles?
  • Victor: No, Snoopy, I'll leave that fashion statement to you.
  • Matt: Of course, if I was going to gloat, I might point out how ironic it is that your name is "Victor," and yet today that word seems to describe me.
  • Alex: You made this?
  • Marlene: Yeah, well, it was kind of a team effort. I called and Pasta Palace delivered.
  • Victor: You know what's ironic? That your name is "Matt" and today I walked all over you.
  • Marlene: Oh, what? You're afraid I'm gonna repeat it?
  • Alex: Mom, you break news faster than CNN!
  • Alex: I earned that award for selling the most cookies!
  • Marlene: Your father bought most of them and he paid the neighbors to act like they bought them. Don't you remember? It was that summer I gained seventeen pounds and everything smelled like Thin Mints!
  • Alex: You said you had the day off.
  • Marlene: Yeah, well, "day off" was kind of putting a spin on it.
  • Alex: What does it sound like when it stops spinning?
  • Marlene: I ditched work.
  • Marlene: It was just a real estate seminar. The last one was a motivational speaker telling us how to stay focused. Blah, blah, blah... I fell asleep!

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