Tom Hanks credited as playing...
Walter Fielding
- Anna: Walter?
- Walter: Oh, Anna, thank God it's you! Thank God!
- Anna: Walter?
- Walter: Thank God you're here, honey!
- Anna: Is that you?
- Walter: Is it me? I'm speaking so loud I'm hallucinating! For a while, I thought the Care Bears were here!
- Anna: Walter?
- Walter: Farm animals or geese or chickens...
- Anna: Walter?
- Walter: UPSTAIRS!
- Anna: Are you all right?
- Walter: No, I'm not all right.
- Anna: Where are you?
- Walter: I'm in the den!
- Anna: No, you're not, I was just in there...
- Walter: I'm in the den! I swear it! Please believe me!
- Anna: Will you stop fooling around, Walter? I'm tired!
- Walter: I'm right here.
- Anna: Look, Walter, enough is enough!
- Walter: I'M RIGHT HERE!
- Anna: Where?
- Walter: In the floor behind the chair.
- Anna: [laughs]
- Walter: Laughing, huh? We're laughing.
- Walter: There is a house I want to buy.
- Benny: Let's just cut to the chase, OK? What do you want?
- Walter: I want you to loan me $200,000 in cash.
- Benny: No.
- Walter: Benny!
- Benny: You shout at me?
- Walter: I shout at you! I need that money and you are going to loan it to me.
- Benny: No, I won't!
- Walter: Yes, you will!
- Benny: No! No! No!
- Walter: Yes, you will! I saved you 10 times that in taxes last year.
- Benny: So what?
- Walter: Benny, if you don't loan me that money. I'll...
- Benny: You'll what? Huh? You'll what?
- Walter: I'll... not like you any more!
- Benny: ...All right.
- Walter: Thanks.
- Walter: It's a big house, we'll divide it up! You stay in your half, I'll stay in mine!
- Anna: That is such a dumb idea. Sometimes it amazes me you ever passed the bar.
- Walter: I'm sure it does, you've never passed a bar in your life.
- Anna: You are so much less attractive when I'm sober.
- Walter: Thank goodness it's not that often.
- Anna: [yelling] All right, that's it! I've had it with you, and the house, and Max, and the orchestra and everything! How long will it take to put this house together?
- Curly: Two weeks.
- [Walter and all the workers start laughing]
- Anna: We'll stick it out 'til the house is done.
- [Walter has missed a meeting with the permit man, who got steamed and left]
- Curly: If he ever does come back, you call me and we'll finish the job.
- Walter: When I do get the permits, how long will the job take?
- Curly: Two weeks.
- Walter: Two weeks? Two weeks?
- Curly: You sound like a parakeet there. "Two weeks! Two weeks!"
- Walter: Well, two weeks. It-it's amazing.
- Curly: Amazing, nothing. It'll be a regular miracle.
- [Jack is being taken in an ambulance after losing his breath on the jogging track]
- Jack: I'm fine, really.
- Paramedic: Take it easy, Mr. Schidntmann
- Walter: Has this ever happened to you before?
- Jack: Yes.
- Paramedic: Seven times in the past five months.
- Walter: I thought the jogging was getting you in better shape.
- Jack: It is.
- Paramedic: Yeah, thanks to the jogging I can lift him into the ambulance.
- Walter: I'm not trying to tell you your business but you haven't even looked at my pipes.
- Brad Shirk: I looked at them three years ago. You figure they've improved with age?
- 'Cheap Girl' # 1: We want to change the name of the band.
- Walter: You can't do that! You've spent years making your name a household word. Your name is perfect! Cheap Girls. I love it.
- 'Cheap Girl' # 1: I'm not sure it's us. We want to call ourselves Meryl Streep.
- Walter: No, no, you cannot call yourselves Meryl Streep.
- 'Cheap Girl' # 1: Maybe she'll be flattered!
- Walter: No, in fact, considering your act, I think I can guarantee a giant lawsuit.
- [Walter tells Anna they're leaving]
- Walter: Forget it, you are not calling yourselves Meryl Streep.
- 'Cheap Girl' # 1: How 'bout Debbie Reynolds?
- Walter: What happened?
- Curly: It was no picnic, but those guys are work animals. Well, everything looks pretty much under control.
- Walter: It does?
- Curly: Well not to the layman's eyes, of course.
- Walter: They completely ripped up my house!
- Curly: They sure as hell did, didn't they? They really ripped the guts out of it. They're work animals I tell you. Look at those holes, huh? Then you've got your gravel piles, your sand piles, your scrap piles. Animals!
- Walter: Animals.
- Curly: Well I like a good conversation as much as any but I've got to run. Hasta Pronto, if you know what I mean.
- Walter: You're leaving?
- Curly: Well, I ain't moving in.
- [Walter and Anna are discussing the possibility of buying the house]
- Walter: You know what this is? This is the short line in Motor Vehicles.
- Anna: What?
- Walter: Yeah! You go to Motor Vehicles to get your license renewed, and you get on this line that reaches to Spain, and right next to it is this little short line with only two guys on it, but you don't get on that line, 'cause you think something must be "wrong" with it, otherwise everyone else would be on it--so you waste three hours!
- Anna: I got on the short line once. It was for farm vehicles.
- Water Fielding: Do you know how hard it is to find a really good carpenter? Besides, I think he's got a brother who's a plumber!
- Anna Crowley: Really? A brother who's a plumber?
- Water Fielding: I think so.
- Anna Crowley: Do you think I should sleep with him?
- Water Fielding: Maybe just this once.
- Estelle: I'm desperate! Can we close?
- Walter: We need a little time to...
- Estelle: There is no time! Extradition is Friday.
- Walter: Extradition?
- Anna: I'll tell you later.
- Estelle: I need an answer by the close of business tomorrow.
- Walter: Oh, you'll have it. By the way, you have the most beautifully-kept pool I've ever seen.
- [Estelle breaks down crying]
- Walter: What did I say? What did I say?