Overboard (1987)

Edward Herrmann: Grant Stayton III

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Quotes 

• Dr. Norman Korman : Joanna, what motivated you to rise and get the serving tray?

  Annie : I thought you might be hungry.

  Dr. Norman Korman : That's excellent, excellent!

  Grant Stayton : What's excellent about it?

  Dr. Norman Korman : I was hungry.

• Grant Stayton : We're at sea, and I'm a GOD at sea!

• Grant Stayton : [to Annie]  I suppose we're on our way back to the jungles of Oregon?

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : I want to go back, Grant.

  Grant Stayton : To him.

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Yes. I'm sorry.

  Grant Stayton : You haven't begun to be sorry, you hillbilly harlot!

• Grant Stayton : [brandishing a bow and arrow]  Halt, you treasonous tramp. Conspiring with the enemy at sea is mutiny!

  Andrew : Pull.

  [kicks Grant overboard] 

  Andrew : [to Grant]  I am giving my notice, sir.

• Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : [Grant has just arrived at the hospital; Joanna doesn't know he's right outside, behind a one-way mirror]  You mean to tell me that I have no medical recourse...?

  Grant Stayton : Can she see us?

  Cop at Hospital : Not unless she's Superwoman.

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Well, what DO you know? Extend your brain a teensy little bit, if possible!

  Doctor at Hospital : You seem to be suffering from a temporary amnesia, either from the bump against the garbage scow, or the shock of the cold water.

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : How temporary is it?

  Doctor at Hospital : We don't know. Other than that, you seem to be in excellent physical shape.

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Listen to me, medical people. As of now, I have a life history of a dirty garbage scow and a breakfast of extremely runny eggs over-easy. Now, I refuse - REFUSE

  [angrily tosses a cup against the wall] 

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : - to be incarcerated in this semi-private room -

  [turns to the only other patient in the room] 

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : You snore! - while there are no efforts being made by anyone to try and locate...!

  Cop at Hospital : [lowers the outside speaker volume, then turns to Grant]  Is that her?

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : I demand you do something! Do you hear me?

  Grant Stayton : [to the cop]  Nooo, I never saw her before in my life.

  [leaves the hospital; later, back on the yacht] 

  Grant Stayton : Mrs. Stayton has decided to leave me. Let's celebrate!

• Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : [aboard her yacht, Joanna is on the phone]  I know it will cost me, but it's the cutest little painting. I simply must have it. You'll do the bidding for me at the auction? $1,700,000.

  [gunshots] 

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Grant, I'm on the phone!

  Grant Stayton : I can't hear you, Tea Rose! I'm shooting skeet!

  [goes back to firing] 

• Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Try to understand,Grant, I don't love you anymore.

  Grant Stayton : What's love got to do with marriage?

• Grant Stayton : [Drunkenly listening to his voice echo into a large vase after Joanna's return]  Tofuuuuuuuti... Tofuuuuti Klein!

• Grant Stayton : Do we have a straight jacket on board?

  Dr. Norman Korman : I always carry one, yes.

• Grant Stayton : Don't get any ideas. I brought Olaf. Olaf?

  Travis Proffitt : I think we could take Olaf.

• Annie : [getting her memory back]  Oh God, I have money! I have lots of money! I even have some in Switzerland!

  Grant Stayton : Switzerland?

• Grant Stayton : [in bed, aboard the yacht]  Joanna, I want you tonight - How can you have your period every week?

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : [Grant is glued to "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"]  Must you watch that thing incessantly?

  Grant Stayton : Yes, I must. It has a tawdry, escapist quality that soothes my nerves.

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : What you have to escape from, I can't possibly imagine

  [notices she's not wearing her wedding ring] 

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Grant, I left my wedding ring on the deck.

  Grant Stayton : Well, what can I do?

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Go and get it.

  Grant Stayton : It's after midnight.

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : I don't care what time it is. I want it now.

  Grant Stayton : I just want to see who's in the top ten yachts.

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : [sighs in disgust]  I'll get it!

  Grant Stayton : Okay.

  [continues watching TV as Joanna leaves to get her ring] 

• Edith Mintz : Cigarette, darling?

  Annie : I don't smoke, Mother.

  [to Grant] 

  Annie : Do I?

  Grant Stayton : Of course you smoke. You've always smoked.

  Edith Mintz : I smoke.

  Dr. Norman Korman : Why don't we all smoke?

  Grant Stayton : Well, why do I have to smoke? I never smoked. I get sick when I smoke. Why is everyone always trying to make me do what I don't want to do?

  Edith Mintz : Grant, we are not interested in your therapy.

  Grant Stayton : I had my nervous breakdown and I didn't have therapy. I never had therapy!

• Joanna : I remember. I remember. I'm Joanna Staton. Oh ... Dean, I'm cured. I can remember again. Oh gawd, you can't imagine how terrible it is not to know who you are. The doctor said that my mind would come back suddenly and he was right. I mean, I didn't believe him, but I saw you, I walked past you into the house and poof, my memory came back. Ask me anything ... ask me ... ask me about my childhood in New York. About my mom, her name is Edith. About my money. Money! I have money! I have lots of money! I even have some in Switzerland!

  Grant Stayton : What?

  Joanna : See how I know me! Oh gawd, this is the happiest day of my life. Oh thank you. Thank you for bringing me here and making me a wife and a mother ... ... . Why did you do that?

• Grant Stayton : I was whacking the donkey with painted ladies.

• Grant Stayton : Tofutti. Where are you when I need you?

• Grant Stayton : What has love got to do with marriage?