Quotes from one of my favorite movies of the 1990s.
Ted: You know what Dr. Johnson said...that guests, like fish, begin to stink on the third day.
Fred: Actually I think you'll find that I begin to stink on the first day.
Ted: ...There's a lot of anti-NATO feeling here.
Fred: Anti what?
Ted: Anti-NATO.
Fred: Anti-NATO?
Ted: Anti-NATO. Actually here it's OTAN.
Ted: They're against OTAN? What are they for? Soviet troops racing across Europe eating all the croissants?
Ted: Spanish girls tend to be really promiscuous
Fred: You're such a prig.
Ted: No, I wasn't using promiscuous perjuritively, its just a fact that they have a completely different attitude towards sex.
Fred: Well I wasn't using prig perjuritively.
Marta: I think it's true that the height of the sexual revolution is over. I don't go to bed with just anyone anymore. I have to be attracted to the sexually.
Ted: But I always thought that women had to have some kind of profound emotional bond with a man, a secure romantic relationship before they become interested in a relation of that kind.
Marta: Oh No...
Girl at party: You can't say that Americans are not more violent than other people.
Fred: No.
Girl at party: All those people killed in shootings in America?
Fred: Oh, shootings. Yes, but that doesn't mean people are more violent than other people. We're just better shots.
Ted: That was really terrible.
Fred: You're blowing it way out of proportion, don't take it so seriously, those red ants were bad news. They weren't any good for anybody.
Ted: I was trying to convince them to look at Americans in a new way and in one stupid move you confirmed their worst assumptions.
Fred: I did not confirm their worst assumptions...I am their worst assumptions.
Marta: Ramone is very persuasive and he painted a terrible picture of what it would be like to live the rest of her life in America with all of its crime, consumerism and vulgarity. All those loud badly dressed fat people watching their 80 channels of television and visiting shopping malls; a plastic, throw away everything society with its notorious violence and racism and finally a total lack of culture.
Fred: It's a problem.
Fred: Since I've been, you know, waiting for the fleet to show up I've been reading a lot.
Ted: Really.
Fred: One of the things that keeps cropping up is this about subtext...plays, novels, songs: they all have this subtext which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know, but what do we call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and honest. What do you call what's above the subtext.
Ted: The text.
Fred: OK, that's right, but they never talk about that.
Fred: Ted's a follower of de Sade and a follower of Dr. Johnson. He's a complex and in some ways dangerous man. He has a serious romantic illusion problem. Women find him fascinating...You see that old expression on his face? Underneath the apparently normal clothes he's wearing are these narrow leather straps drawn taught so that when he dances...
Aurora: What?!
Fred: Please don't mention this...he may feel I violated a confidence.