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Robin Williams and Walter Matthau in The Survivors (1983)

Walter Matthau: Sonny Paluso

The Survivors

Walter Matthau credited as playing...

Sonny Paluso

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Quotes5

  • Sonny Paluso: You think Wes is God, don't you.
  • Donald Quinelle: No, not God, Just an ordinary man. Maybe a little ahead of his time, but just an ordinary man.
  • Sonny Paluso: Wes is an asshole.
  • Donald Quinelle: Blasphemy! Oh, you'll smoke a turd in hell for that!
  • Candice Paluso: Listen, this is gonna sound like a really stupid question, but, uh, aren't you guys gonna get really bored out here if society doesn't collapse?
  • Donald Quinelle: I wouldn't worry about that. Wes says society is heading for the big "flush". And we're going to be the ones who are clinging to the rim while everything else goes down.
  • Candice Paluso: Eeew!
  • Sonny Paluso: What're you going to do if things get better?
  • Donald Quinelle: Is the air getting better?
  • Candice Paluso: That's true.
  • Donald Quinelle: The economy? The Middle East? Arts, literature, television, US Presidents improving?
  • Sonny Paluso: Anyone can nitpick.
  • Donald Quinelle: Sonny, name one thing that's gotten better in the last ten years.
  • Sonny Paluso: [Sonny is stumped]
  • Donald Quinelle: See?
  • Candice Paluso: Video games.
  • Sonny Paluso: Video games! There you are.
  • Donald Quinelle: Alright, I acknowledge that.
  • [last lines]
  • Donald Quinelle: Tell me things are gonna work out, Sonny.
  • Sonny Paluso: Everything's gonna work out.
  • Donald Quinelle: Yeah, yeah. Boy, it's been a strange winter, hasn't it?
  • Sonny Paluso: Not really.
  • Donald Quinelle: No.
  • Sonny Paluso: You're not going to die.
  • Donald: They always say that to people who are going to die.
  • Wes Huntley: Such lovely skin.
  • Sonny Paluso: That lovely skin is only sixteen years old, sir.

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