Burt Reynolds credited as playing...
Phil Potter
- Phil Potter: What do you want?
- Marilyn Holmberg: What do *you* want?
- Phil Potter: I want us to live together. I want us to get married. I want us to have children together. I want us to put our teeth in the same cup. I want us buried together in a family plot with one headstone. What do you want?
- Marilyn Holmberg: I want a separate cup for my teeth.
- Student 2: Uh, Mr. Potter. The class isn't over till 10:00.
- Phil Potter: Good. That gives me a chance to answer all your questions for the next, uh,
- [looks at the clock]
- Phil Potter: 56 minutes. I should've, uh, prepared more material for today. From now on, I'll be able to gauge the time a little better. Or I'll learn to talk very slowly.
- Michael Potter: I'm gonna help you whether you like it or not. I'm not talking about psychiatry.
- Phil Potter: Psychiatry is not gonna do a thing for me, Mickey.
- Michael Potter: Who's talking psychiatry? I'm not a psychiatrist anymore, Phil. I've gone through some changes myself.
- Phil Potter: What are you doin' now?
- Michael Potter: I'm teaching psychiatry.
- Jessica Potter: Honey, you can't drag this out, you know. It's not gonna make it any less awful. What's left to say, anyway?
- Phil Potter: That I'm glad that we were married.
- Marva Potter: She's a terrific woman. She's an extraordinarily gifted nursery school teacher. She's gone back to school to get her master's in child development. She's getting it together. And I, for one, don't want her hurt.
- Phil Potter: I'm not even sure I'm gonna ask her out.
- Marva Potter: Why? Because she doesn't have large breasts?
- Phil Potter: Everett, were you divorced recently?
- Everett: It was last July. It was our 43rd wedding anniversary. She said there were no surprises left. What a thing to say. After a lifetime together. A lifetime of faithfulness despite many urgent temptations. No surprises.
- Marilyn Holmberg: Would you like some more of this?
- Phil Potter: Did I eat some of that?
- Marilyn Holmberg: Yeah.
- Phil Potter: That's pudding. I hate pudding. I wonder why I ate it.
- Marilyn Holmberg: Maybe you were so interested in me that you didn't know what you were doing.
- Phil Potter: I knew that without the pudding.
- Marilyn Holmberg: [walks towards the bed] Don't be afraid to tell me what you want.
- Phil Potter: I think I'd like to say good night.
- Marilyn Holmberg: [sighs] I know. I - I understand. It's too much or it's too soon. Or you don't like me enough. Or you like me too much. Or you're frightened, or you're guilty. You can't get it up or out or in or what?
- Phil Potter: That just about covers it.
- Phil Potter: I wanna have sex with you.
- Marilyn Holmberg: Gulp. I don't like the way you put that. It makes me feel very strange.
- Phil Potter: I know. It did sound a little bit like Tarzan. It's just that I was trying to avoid the whole romantic thing.
- Marilyn Holmberg: I don't like that, either. I hate that. But can't you just personalize it a little? I want to have sex with you, Marilyn?
- Phil Potter: I want to have sex with you, Marilyn.
- Marilyn Holmberg: I want to have sex with you, Potter.
- Jessica Potter: Well, how do I look, anyway?
- Phil Potter: As good as you wanted to look.
- Jessica Potter: That good, huh?
- Phil Potter: That good.
- Jessica Potter: So you're still mad at me.
- Phil Potter: Why should I be mad at you?
- Jessica Potter: Because I went to bed with your boss and broke up our marriage.
- Phil Potter: Oh, that. You're right, Jessie. I am still mad at you.
- Phil Potter: I need terrific. I need wonderful. I need love.
- Jessica Potter: I need a half a pound of potato salad and a loaf of rye bread, please.
- Jessica Potter: You know, when we made love last night.
- Phil Potter: I know what you're gonna say. You don't have to say it.
- Jessica Potter: [whispers] I had a vaginal orgasm.
- [smiles]