You've Got Mail (1998)
Dabney Coleman: Nelson Fox
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Quotes
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Nelson Fox : I just have to meet someone new, that's all. That's the easy part.
Joe Fox : Oh right, yeah, a snap to find the one single person in the world who fills your heart with joy.
Nelson Fox : Well, don't be ridiculous. Have I ever been with anyone who fit that description? Have you?
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Nelson Fox : You know, I stayed on this boat after... let's see, your mother... Laurette, the ballet dancer...
Joe Fox : My nanny.
Nelson Fox : She was the nanny?
Joe Fox : Yeah.
Nelson Fox : [laughs] I forgot that. How ironic. Then there was the ice skater.
Joe Fox : Also my nanny.
Nelson Fox : Really?
Joe Fox : Yeah.
Nelson Fox : That's amazingly ironic. And then there was Sybil, the... um... it's an "A" word...
Joe Fox : Astrologer.
Nelson Fox : Exactly. Yeah.
Joe Fox : Whose moon turned out to be in someone else's house, as I recall.
Nelson Fox : Just like Gillian.
Joe Fox : Gillian ran off with someone?
Nelson Fox : The nanny.
Joe Fox : Nanny Maureen?
Nelson Fox : Yes.
Joe Fox : [Joe bursts out laughing] Well! Gillian ran off with Nanny Maureen, hmm?
Nelson Fox : You got it.
Joe Fox : That's *incredibly* ironic.
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Nelson Fox : Perfect. Keep those West-Side liberal nuts, psudo-intellectuals...
Joe Fox : Readers, Dad. They're called readers.
Nelson Fox : Don't do that, son. Don't romanticize them.
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Nelson Fox : How much son? How much you payin'?
Joe Fox : Well, whatever it costs it won't be as much as that exquisitely uncomfortable mohair episode there, which is NOW ALL OVER MY SUIT.
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Joe Fox : Hey, this... this fabric on the couch, what is it? Does it have a name?
Nelson Fox : Money.
Joe Fox : Huh?
Nelson Fox : Its name is *money*.
Joe Fox : Ah, Gillian selected it.
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Schuyler Fox : Your father is getting married.
Joe Fox : Really?
Nelson Fox : Yes.
Joe Fox : Congratulations.
Nelson Fox : Thank you.
Joe Fox : Why?
Nelson Fox : Who knows?
Joe Fox : Love?
Nelson Fox : Possible.
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Joe Fox : [about a sculpture on Nelson Fox's desk] Porcelain?
Nelson Fox : Rubber.