Quotes

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Joanna Wallace: [referring to a pair of newlyweds seated in the back of a Rolls Royce] They don't look very happy. Mark Wallace: Why should they? They just got married.

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Mark Wallace: Do you know what marriage is? Joanna Wallace: Hmm, you tell me, and see if we're thinking of the same thing. Mark Wallace: Marriage is when the woman tells the man to take off his pajamas... and it's because, she wants to send them to the laundry.

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Mark Wallace: Just wish that you'd stop sniping. Joanna Wallace: I haven't said a word! Mark Wallace: Just because you use a silencer doesn't mean you're not a sniper.

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Mark Wallace: What kind of people just sit like that without a word to say to each other? Joanna Wallace: Married people?

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Mark Wallace: Are you a virgin? Mark Wallace: Thought you were. Can always tell. Joanna Wallace: Congratulations. Mark Wallace: I was two years at the University of Chicago. Joanna Wallace: Studying virgin detection? Mark Wallace: Only at night school.

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Mark Wallace: [Joanna has returned from an affair] Hello. Joanna Wallace: Hello. Mark Wallace: Well? Joanna Wallace: [softly, on the verge of tears] I'm back. Mark Wallace: Enjoy yourself? Joanna Wallace: [nods] Yes, thank you. But I missed you. Joanna Wallace: I did. Mark Wallace: Why? Joanna Wallace: Because he's so serious. Mark Wallace: I thought you liked people who were serious. Joanna Wallace: But he's so serious. Mark Wallace: Well, I'd better make some funny faces... Joanna Wallace: [softly] You don't need to make funny faces. Joanna Wallace: Mark, I'm back! Mark Wallace: You humiliate me. You humiliate me... and then you come back. Joanna Wallace: [nods tearfully] That's right. Mark Wallace: Thank God!

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Mark Wallace: Why is it whenever you give a woman everything she wants, you get so bloody minded. Joanna Wallace: You don't give me everything I want, you give me everything you want to give me.

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Mark Wallace: We agreed before we were married we weren't gonna have any children. Joanna Wallace: And before we were married we didn't.

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Mark Wallace: [to Joanna] Come on, baby. Howard Manchester: Well that, if I may say so, is a very revealing usage. Calling her baby, at this point, shows you're prepared to do her thinking and her deciding for her. Now I warn you solemnly, Marcus. You're denying Joanna the right to be her own paradoxical self. Mark Wallace: Howard, you're the largest pocket of untapped natural gas known to man.

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Joanna Wallace: [upset] You just want me to become a beautiful memory, the sooner the better! Mark Wallace: Who said anything about beautiful?

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Joanna Wallace: What do people have rows about, dear? Mark Wallace: Money, sex. Sex, money. He wants, she doesn't want. Joanna Wallace: She wants, he doesn't want. Mark Wallace: He thinks that the counter is all in the wrong place. Joanna Wallace: Counter and display cases. It's very funny. Mark Wallace: Yeah, that's marriage for you. Joanna Wallace: That's marriage for them. Mark Wallace: That's marriage. Full stop.

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Joanna Wallace: What sort of people sit in a restaurant and don't even try to talk to each other? Mark Wallace: Married people.

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Mark Wallace: I always thought American women would be different. I thought in America they'd broken the inhibitions barrier and it was all one long sex feast. Joanna Wallace: No? Mark Wallace: But no. But no. The nicely brought-up American girl plays cool and modern. but what she wants - is what her grandmother wanted: Your head stuffed and mounted on the living room wall.

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Mark Wallace: Bitch. Joanna Wallace: Bastard.