Manhattan (film)

"[to Tracy] I think that people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics."

"[to Isaac Davis] Its just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography."

"Charles Levin, Karen Allen, and David Rasche as Television actors"

"Shes 17. Im 42, and shes 17. Im older than her father, can you believe that? Im dating a girl, wherein, I can beat up her father."

"[to Isaac Davis] Not everybody gets corrupted. Youve got to have faith in people."

"You rely too much on the brain. The brain is the most overrated organ."

"This is so antiseptic. Its empty. Why do you think this is funny? Youre going by audience reaction? This is an audience thats raised on television, their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!"

"[to Yale and Emily Pollack and Tracy] Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage."

"I cant express anger. Thats my problem. I internalize everything. I just grow a tumor instead."

"[to Mary Wilke] You know a lot of geniuses, yknow. You should meet some stupid people once in a while, yknow, you could learn something."

"[to Mary Wilke] I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion."

"[to Yale Pollack] What are you telling me, that youre, youre, youre gonna leave Emily, is this true? And, and run away with the, the, the winner of the Zelda Fitzgerald emotional maturity award?"