The Four Seasons (1981)
Jack Weston: Danny Zimmer
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Quotes
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Danny : [talking about Nick] He's been having affairs all along. Dozens.
Jack : [disbelief] You're kidding.
Danny : How could you not know? They even slept at your place once.
Jack : Where was I?
Danny : You gave him the key to water your plants and feed the cats while you were away. Didn't you notice the funny expression on the cats' faces?
Jack : He told you all of this?
Danny : Most of it... some of it came out when he was under gas.
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Danny : [furiously at Jack] Goddamn it! I just told you my deepest fear! Why can't you listen to what I'm saying instead of how I'm saying it? I mean, do you have any idea, any idea, what it is to be afraid of death? I can't eat my bowl of cereal anymore because I have an irrational fear of milk. I stand there in hallways, where - I - I stand there in hallways afraid to press strange elevator buttons. I almost threw away my jockey shorts because I have this fear of elastic.
[Kate begins laughing hysterically]
Ginny : Don't laugh at him.
Danny : No. Go on, go on, laugh. Right. Good. Good. I'm a fool, right? No,
Kate Burroughs : No, Danny.
Danny : I'm a collection of eccentricities. You think because I'm quirky, I don't hurt?
Kate Burroughs : No
Danny : Well, you have it wrong. I'm quirky because I hurt.
Kate Burroughs : Oh, Danny, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Now, come on - are you really afraid of your underwear?
[she starts laughing again]
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Danny : You think whenever your brain has a thought, it has to just drop down onto your tongue like a gumball.
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Danny : [talking about Nick and Ginny] I don't find them all that adorable. They're making this trip very difficult.
Jack : They're not even *on* this trip! They walk around mooning all the time, making goo-goo eyes - my God, if one of them farts, the other thinks it's Guy Lombardo!
Claudia Zimmer : I think it's kind of nice.
Jack : I don't know, I - I want us all to feel like we did before.
Claudia Zimmer : I want to feel like them.
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Danny : [talking about Ginny] I think you should apologize to her.
Claudia Zimmer : For what? I got excited, I spoke my mind, I said I was sorry, and it's over and done with.
Danny : Well, I don't understand how you can hurt someone as guileless and vulnerable as Ginny.
Claudia Zimmer : She sure took on a lot of mystical qualities once you saw her swimming naked.
Danny : How can you say that?
Claudia Zimmer : I just say what I think.
Danny : Well, maybe that's the problem! Why do you always say what you think? I mean, do you think your thoughts should just fall down from your brain onto your tongue like a gumball machine?
Claudia Zimmer : Danny, I'm not going to start watching what I think or what I feel! I'm Italian!
Danny : [angry] I know you're Italian! I don't want to hear anymore how you're Italian! Wait, wait here. Wait, wait, wait, wait!
[opens window and sticks his head out]
Danny : Hello, out there! This woman is Italian!
[faces back to Claudia]
Danny : Alright! You no longer have to announce your ethnic origin in this state. Everybody in Connecticut knows you're Italian! And when we cross the border, I'll take out an ad in the New York Times.
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Ginny : [about Anne] You know, I don't want to talk her down, but she is unreliable. I mean Nick has made three appointments to meet her down at his lawyer's office and she's never shown up. She hasn't even called.
Claudia Zimmer : Now wait a minute. No offense, Ginny, but 21 years ago Nick said he would be there on the other side of the bed every morning and for the last six months he hasn't kept his appointment either!
Jack : [flustered] OK, look. All right, all right. Let's calm down. It's not all that bad. It's just a little embarassing.
Nick : I don't see what the big problem is. We're all adults. We'll just say hello and uh...
Danny : Have a nervous breakdown.
Claudia Zimmer : [approaching Ginny] Ginny, I'm sorry. There is a lot of strain in the situation and I get passionate sometimes.
Ginny : [crying and sniffling] That's OK. I know you're just trying to be fair to everybody.
[Ginny walks away]
Claudia Zimmer : [to Nick] You're the one I wanted to make cry.
[Nick goes after Ginny]
Danny : [to Claudia] Well, you had to open up your mouth again.
Claudia Zimmer : Danny, it's over and done with, please.
Danny : Let's have a nice quiet time... a nice vacation.
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Danny : Let me tell you something, Jack, I'm 10 years older than you, right?
Jack : Yeah.
Danny : All right, I just hope that when you get to be my age, you don't smell the foul breath of death and disintegration hanging over your shoulder the way I find it hanging over mine. I mean, I go to sleep at night on an ache so bad that it simply will not go away. I wake up in the middle of the night sweating, hearing my own bones decay. I have shifted into a state of entropy that's progressing geometrically.
Jack : You see. Entropy. Progressing geometrically. You talk like a bad textbook. Why don't you just speak English?
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Danny : How come everyone thinks I'm paranoid? You discuss this behind my back, don't you?
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Ginny : [the friends are making lunch in cramped quarters on the boat] Salt is bad for you?
Danny : I haven't used salt or mucus products for three years and I feel just great.
Ginny : Who eats mucus?
Claudia Zimmer : [disgusted] He means cheese and milk. Danny, say what you mean, would you please? You're talking to humans here!
Ginny : Don't worry about it, Danny. This recipe doesn't call for mucus.
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Jack : Why do you think we love this boat so much?
Kate Burroughs : I don't know.
Jack : You know why I think we like this boat so much?
Kate Burroughs : I knew it! I knew it. He only asked us so that he could tell us his theory. Go ahead. Go ahead, sweetheart. Tell us. Why do we love this boat so much?
Jack : Because it represents our primeval desire to control water.
Kate Burroughs : See.
Jack : Now, think about it. All our beginnings are wet. Sloshing around in the womb. Baptism. The first life that came out of the warm soup of the ocean. From the moment we rose from the slime as alligators, we've been trying for dominion over water. You know?
Kate Burroughs : Jack loves ideas. And he can do so much with them. I have seen him take one idea at a dinner party and bring the conversation of a dozen people to a complete halt.
Nick : Ladies and gentlemen, Clams Casino.
Claudia Zimmer : Oh, my God, I love them! I have this insatiable need to have dominance over the clams.
Jack : It so happens that Venus rose from the sea on a clam shell. Sexuality was born in wetness.
Danny : It's easier that way!
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Danny : Why do you always have to do that? Why couldn't you have just kept quiet?
Claudia Zimmer : Danny, I say what I feel. I'm Italian!
Danny : [outraged] I know you're Italian! I know you're Italian!
[opens the window and shouts]
Danny : This woman is Italian!
[faces away from window]
Danny : You no longer have to announce your ethnic origin in this state. Everyone in Connecticut knows that you're Italian!
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Danny : I can sculpt a bicuspid that would fool God himself.
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Danny : [to Claudia, discussing the two other couples] These people are vicious. Vicious and ill.
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Danny : [all are preparing to dive into baguette sandwiches, in Danny's new Mercedes] Don't eat!
Jack : Why?
Danny : The crumbs go down into the upholstery. One loaf of French bread and the resale value goes down five-hundred dollars.
Jack : Can't I just eat the insides
[of my sandwich]
Jack : for a hundred?
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Claudia Zimmer : Is he still thoughtful?
Kate Burroughs : [hugging Jack] Yes, Jack is thoughtful.
Claudia Zimmer : Does he observe good bathroom etiquette?
Kate Burroughs : Huh?
Claudia Zimmer : Does he leave the seat up or does he put it down?
Danny : Wait a minute! I always put the seat down!
Claudia Zimmer : Yeah, after I yelled at you to do it!
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Danny : We owe the length, breadth, and depth of this relationship to the two most basic human emotions... fear and panic.
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Kate Burroughs : Danny, calm down!
Danny : Please don't tell me to calm down, this is the second time today someone has told me to calm down!
Kate Burroughs : Well, I'm sorry. It's only my first.
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Danny : You brought your work? I stopped my work for the weekend.
Claudia Zimmer : Danny, please. You're a dentist.
Danny : Do you hear this? I can sculpt a bicuspid that would fool God himself, but I'm just a dentist.
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Danny : You know, beans are very much misunderstood. They have a complex set of amino acids. If you eat beans together with rice, you never have to eat meat.
Claudia Zimmer : Danny loves to talk about beans.
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Danny : I am the greatest! The sexy dentist won! I won!
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Danny : Claudia thinks she's seasick.
Jack : Are you?
Claudia Zimmer : No. I'm just trying out this new green makeup.
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Danny : [Danny, Claudia, Jack, and Kate on the boat observing Nick and Ginny skinny dipping] You know, when you really think about it, there isn't anything sexual about it. It's natural. People go to their doctor's offices, they take off their clothes, it doesn't mean a thing.
Claudia Zimmer : Meanwhile, he hasn't taken his eyes off her for a second.
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Danny : Do you think they're going to do it again?
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Claudia Zimmer : Look, if they don't want me to keep the finances, I won't. But there's something wrong with them. These people are vicious. They're ill. We're traveling with a group of ill people.
Claudia Zimmer : I just can't believe that he would bring her on the boat with us.
Danny : Every time I make a suggestion, every time I say something they're ignorant of, do you see the way they look at each other? They discuss me behind my back.
Claudia Zimmer : I mean, she walks around with that hanky on her hips that's supposed to be a bathing suit. Oh, God. I get so depressed every time I look at her.
Danny : These people are vicious. Vicious and ill.
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Claudia Zimmer : [trying to ignore observing Ginny and Nick skinny dipping] Okay, Danny, we've all got something to do.
Danny : What's everybody getting so crazy about? You can't see anything.
Jack : Then what are you standing there for?
Claudia Zimmer : He's hoping she'll turn over and do the backstroke.
Danny : I was just enjoying their playfulness. They're like a couple of porpoises. It's a pure animal pleasure of having fun, that's all.
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Danny : You don't understand the soul of a car like this. It was born for speed. I'm in complete control.
Claudia Zimmer : What are we cramped up in here for? We could've used their station wagon.
Danny : A station wagon is a car. A Mercedes is a thoroughbred. Every so often, it needs to be taken on the open road and challenged.
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Danny : God, I love that woman. She just kills me.
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Claudia Zimmer : It's Saturday night. He's probably out trying to get laid.
Danny : What makes you think your son's always doing something sexual?
Claudia Zimmer : Please, I'm Italian.
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Ginny : Okay, come on. Danny, let's dance. Come on.
Danny : No. No, thanks. No. I don't want to dance.
Claudia Zimmer : Danny dance.
Ginny : Come on.
Jack : Go ahead, dance. Go on.
Kate Burroughs : Go boogie.
