Local Hero (1983)

Burt Lancaster: Felix Happer

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Quotes 

• Happer : What about the sky?

  Mac : [observing the northern lights]  Sky, sir? It's amazing. I wish you could see it! I wish I could describe it to you like I'm seeing it!

• Happer : Oldsen, I could grow to love this place.

• Happer : [Moritz on the roof, putting up hate messages against Happer, who is calling his secretary]  There's a madman on the roof. You'd better call the police to get some marksmen over here. Shoot him down. Shoot to kill.

• [repeated line] 

  Happer : Keep watching the sky, MacIntyre.

• Happer : [wants MacIntyre to observe the sky while in Scotland]  Anything out of the ordinary, you telephone me. Night or day.

• Happer : Good sky you've got here, Macintyre. Well done. One or two unfamiliar objects to look at up there. I like this place. The air is good, clear.

• Happer : Institute for the study of the sea and sky? I like it!

• Happer : Take the chopper, go to Aberdeen, get on over to Houston.

• Happer : That'll be all for now, MacIntyre.

• Happer : Comets are important. They could be the key to the universe. Maybe.

• Happer : Virgo is well up this time of year.

  Mac : Sir?

  Happer : I'm talking about the sky, Macintyre. The constellation of Virgo is very prominent in the sky right now, in Scotland. I want you to keep an eye on Virgo for me. Will you do that?

• Happer : You think if I'd married, that things would be different?

  Moritz : Oh, by no means, Mr Happer. The modern world offers *many* alternatives to the security of the family unit. Look at me, Mr Happer. I'm a single man.

  Happer : Get out.

• Moritz : I could hit you. Wouldn't that humiliate you? We could progress by leaps and bounds! I tie you up!

  Happer : Forget it, Mortiz. You're talking perversion, not therapy. Go on, get out, and don't come back.

  Moritz : That's good! You're reacting. You're upset already. Think what it'll be like when I punch you.