Victor Scrimshaw (Kenneth McCarthy) has a brief talk with Jack Putter (Martin Short):
"Nuclear Weapons, Jack? They mean nothing! Everybody's got 'em! Nobody has the balls to use 'em! Am I right? Space, you say. Space is a flop! Didn't you know that? An endless junkyard of orbiting debris! Ah...But Minituarization, Jack! That's the ticket! That's the edge that everybody's been looking for! WHO will have that edge, Jack? What country will control Minituarization? Frankly, I don't give a shit. I'm only in this for the money!"
Brody is at home, sulking after all that has transpired that day, at the dinner table after the worst day of his life (to that point, anyway) and Hooper comes in.
Hooper: "How was your day?"
Brody: (Sarcastically) "Great!"
They both chuckle with that "You have to laugh to keep from crying" chuckle.
I was 20 when I saw it and it stuck in my mind then. Now as 42 years have gone by, I can relate to that moment. For me it's a highlight of the film.
PHILIP MARLOWE: I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings.
KITTY (Jean Harlow): I was reading a book the other day.
CARLOTTA (Marie Dressler): Reading a book?
KITTY: Yes. It's all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
CARLOTTA: Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.
Captain (Richard Widmark): Yeah, it's alot of work being a mean bastard. Executive Officer: Hmm. Sometimes I cant help admiring how effortlessly you do it, Captain. Almost as if it came naturally. -Bedford Incident 1965
