The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Jennifer Jason Leigh: Amy Archer

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• Amy Archer : Norville Barnes, you don't know a thing about that woman. You don't know who she really is. Only a numbskull thinks he knows things about things he knows nothing about.

• Amy Archer : I used to think you were a swell guy. Well, to be honest, I thought you were an imbecile. But then I figured out you WERE a swell guy... A little slow, maybe, but a swell guy. Well, maybe you're not so slow, But you're not so swell either. And it looks like you're an imbecile after all!

• Amy Archer : Finally there would be a thingamajig that would bring everyone together, even if it kept them apart spatially.

• Amy Archer : Is this guy from Chumpsville or what? Ha! I even pulled the old mother routine.

  Smitty, Argus Reporter : Adenoids.

  Amy Archer : Lumbago.

  Smitty, Argus Reporter : [whistles]  That gag's got whiskers on it!

• Amy Archer : This is a face only a mother could love. On pay day.

• Amy Archer : You told me you were going to bring a smile to the HIPS of everyone in America.

• [singing the Muncie school fight song] 

  Norville , Amy Archer : Fight on, fight on, dear old Muncie/Fight on, hoist the gold and blue/You'll be tattered, torn, and hurtin'/Once the Munce is done with you/Go... Eagles!

• Amy Archer : [to Norville]  Shut up! After all, you haven't talked to me for a week and now I'm going to say my piece. Look, I've never been dumped by a fellow before, and that hurts. But what really hurts is watching you uproot your soul, chasing after money and ease of the respect of a board who wouldn't give you the time of day if you, if you, if you...

  Man : Work in a watch factory.

  Amy Archer : Shut up! Exactly!

• Amy Archer : I've been watching you Norville Barnes, even though you're trying to avoid me.

  Norville : Amy, you don't...

  Amy Archer : Shut up! And don't think I hadn't noticed how you'd changed.

• Ancient Puzzler : What's a six letter word for a condition of the hypothalamus?

  Amy Archer : "Goiter."

• Amy Archer : The guy's a real moron.

• Norville : Cigarette?

  Amy Archer : No, thank you.