[Editor's Note: Today we pay tribute to the dual congruencies of American cinema and psychiatric disorders. For those readers who don't recall the source of the patients' quotes, the answers are below the fold.]
Psychiatrist: "Come in and have a seat on the couch. Now, let's begin by telling me what seems to be bothering you?"
Patient # 1: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines."
Patient # 2: "Amputate a man's leg and he can still feel it tickling. Tell me, mum, when your little girl is on the slab, where will it tickle you?"
Patient # 3: "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me?"
Patient # 4: "And so I ran. I ran! I ran! I ran! I ran as little Jimmy Grimaldi ran the other day! They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next... "
Patient # 5: "I often ask myself, 'Do I live for the people or do the people live for me?' Then I hear a voice say, 'You are the sun in their sky! Does the sun have privacy?' and I reply, 'The sun has the night! These people expect me to shine both day and night!'"
Patient # 6: "Nobody tells me what to do. You keep needlin' me, if I want to, I'm gonna take this joint apart and you're not gonna know what hit you."
Patient # 7: "No, I can't go into a movie that's already started, because I'm anal. Oh, and another thing: I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening."
Patient # 8: "Well that's great, that's just f****** great man. Now what the f*** are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty s*** now man... That's it man, game over man, game over! What the f*** are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?"
Patient # 9: "You little sc**bag! I got your name, I got your ass! You will not laugh, you will not cry, you will learn by the numbers, I will teach you! Now get up off your face! You better unf*** yourself before I unscrew your head and s*** down your neck!"
Patient #10: "There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no!"
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Claiming "unlevel playing field" - not an American - Will try to "nut it out" though.
The minute I read #7, it was clearly Woody Allen; it was only a matter of which of his movies this line came from.
I would have guessed that #8 was said by Samuel L. Jackson, but I was wrong.
#3 was easy.
I know the answer to Patient #1. It's from one of the funniest flicks ever made.
I don't know #2-10.
What's my score ?!