Quotes

Coffee and Cigarettes

Tom: The beauty of quitting is, now that I've quit, I can have one, 'cause I've quit.

Jack: Well, Nikola Tesla invented fluorescent light. Without him we wouldn't have alternating current, radio, television... x-ray technology... induction motors, particle beams, lasers; none of that would even exist if it weren't for him.
Meg: [sarcastically] Hmm, or the rock band Tesla.
Jack: [visibly dispirited] Funny.

Shelly: It's just... funny, don't yah think, that when you can't afford something, it's like *really expensive* but then when you can afford it, it's like, free? It's kinda backwards, don't yah think?
Cate: Yeah, well... the world is a bit like that, I guess, in a lot of ways.

Joe: You really are a fuckin' moron, you know that? I'm gonna call up the big tobacco companies and thank them for burying you!

Steve: I've not given my number out to many eminent people in the past. I've not given my number out to Sam Mendes, so you're in good company.
Alfred: Well, if it's good enough for Sam Mendes it's good enough for me.

GZA: Want some tea?
RZA: Yea, splash me.
GZA: It's all herbals, man. No caffeine.
RZA: That's what I'm talking about. No caffeine. Caffeine is ridiculous right now, man.
GZA: Tell me about it.
RZA: Caffeine leads to depression, makes you all irritable, have your heart beating fast. Faster heart rate, you know what I mean? And worse than anything, you drink that coffee, it gives you the shits, you know what I mean? So I try to stay away from that.
GZA: I'm off that shit, anyway.
RZA: Crisp and clean. No caffeine.

Alfred: He's a very committed environmentalist.
Steve: Spike Jonze is a tree hugger? Jesus, I never would've had him down as that.
Alfred: Well... I think he prefers the term "leaf people."

Taylor: [Taylor is pretending the coffee he and Bill are drinking is champagne] I propose a toast.
Bill: So what should we toast?
Taylor: Oh, god... Paris, in the 1920's. Josephine Baker, the Moulin Rouge. Q'est-ce que c'est...
[mutters, trails off]
Bill: And also, New York, in the 70's. The late 70's.
Taylor: Really? Oh, alright.
Bill: [they touch cups] Cheers.
Taylor: Cheers.
[they sip their coffee]
Bill: Mmm. Délicieux, isn't it?
Taylor: Oh, champagne; nectar of the Gods.

Bill Murray: [Coughs] Doc, what could I do for this cough?
RZA: Shit, I was just thinking about that. Check this out: you get some hydrogen peroxide...
Bill Murray: We got that for cuts and stuff.
RZA: ...take fifty percent hydrogen peroxide, fifty percent water. You gargle with it. Do *not* swallow. You spit it out. Don't swallow, Bill Murray.
GZA: And if that doesn't work, try oven cleaner.
Bill Murray: We got that in the back, too.

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By what name was Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) officially released in India in English?