Husbands and Wives
1992
(On Gail, the woman she thinks her husband has been sleeping with) Sally: What can I say? She's me, but she's younger.
(On finding out that her husband, with whom she separated recently, had been cheating on her) Sally: It was a huge blow to my ego. You know, I thought he loved me, that, uh, that we were experimenting, you know. Interviewer: But if you had met someone first? Sally: (smiling) Probably right. Probably would have done the same thing.
Gabe: Change equals death! Judy: What kind of bullshit? That's just a bullshit line! Maybe you fool your twenty-year-old students into thinking that's some kind of a, an insight or something, but it means nothing! Change is what life is made of! Change - if you don't change, you don't grow, you just shrivel up!
Sam: I used to eat red meat every day and then I gave it up and then I had some again recently and I was totally bloated! I mean, like, really bad!
Sally: Fucking men! Woman gets to be over a certain age, it becomes a different ballgame. Paul: Oh, no, no - ... Sally: Don't defend your sex! It's true! You're great 'til you start to show your age - then they want a newer model.
Sally: It's the Second Law of Thermodynamics: sooner or later everything turns to shit. That's my phrasing, not the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Judy: You use sex to express every emotion except love.
Man: If astrology were true - ... Sam: It is true! It is totally, totally, totally provable, you know? Female Party Guest: Provable how? From gypsies? Sam: Well, it's totally logical, right? You know, why wouldn't the position of the planets have an influence on our personalities?
Gabe Roth: See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.
Gabe Roth: I do not flirt! Judy Roth: Don't tell me you don't flirt because I've seen you do it, at parties, you put on a whole other personality. Gabe Roth: Oh you're crazy. Judy Roth: Of course you do. You get all soulful and pretend to want things that you really can't stand. Gabe Roth: Like what? What are you talking about? Judy Roth: Like moving to Europe. That's just a flirting technique, you couldn't survive off the island of Manhattan for more than 48 hours.
Sally: I thought that I liked what Michael was doing to me, and that it felt different to Jack- more gentle. And more exciting. And I thought how different Michael was from Jack how much deeper his vision of life was. And, I thought Michael was a hedgehog and Jack was a fox. And then I thought Judy was a fox and Gabe was a hedgehog. And I thought about all the people I knew, and which were hedgehogs and which were foxes. Al Simon, our friend, was a hedgehog, and his wife Jenny was a hedgehog. And Cindy Salchime was a fox, and Luke Trinow was a hedgehog.
Rain: I spent five days searching for the perfect word to describe the husband and that's when I came up with "apucious". Gabe: Apucious. I looked it up in the dictionary but I couldn't find it. Rain: Yeah, I know. I made it up. Gabe: Oh, really. Rain: Yeah. I thought it described him perfectly.