dual personalities

Today I thought we’d have a little pop quiz. Here are quotes from a dozen or so of my favorite movies. Can you guess them? If you can, good for you! Watch the movies–there’re all great ones.

Waiter, will you serve the nuts? I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts?

I don’t think I’ve ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before.

Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.

– I’ve heard about you.

-What have you heard?

-I’ve heard that you’re a low-down Yankee liar.

– Prove it.

Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the “ape” in apricot? What have they got that I ain’t got?

I’ll organize revolt, exact a death for a death, and I’ll never rest until every Saxon in this shire can stand up free men and strike a blow for Richard and England.

Face it, girls, I’m older and I have more insurance.

Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It’s all bad. People have forgotten what life is all about. They’ve forgotten what it is to be alive. They need to be reminded. They need to be reminded of what they have and what they can lose. What I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life!

So what else is on your mind besides hundred-proof women, ninety-proof whiskey, ‘n’ fourteen-carat gold?

You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I’m an easy target. Yeah, you’re right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you… but I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I’m not changing. I like… I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. ‘Cause I’m the real article. What you see is what you get.

Impetuous! Homeric!

It’s money and adventure and fame. It’s the thrill of a lifetime and a long sea voyage that starts at six o’clock tomorrow morning.

I don’t like disturbances in my place. Either lay off politics or get out!

It took me a long, long time to learn my elbow from a hot rock.

You believe what you want. You work your side of the street, and I’ll work mine.

And here’s one more question: Do you think I relate to Doris Day, Thelma Ritter or Rock Hudson in the following scene:

I’ll post the answers in the Comments section later today. Until then, I’ll see you at the movies…