Albert Soady Quotes in Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)

Remnar Soady: I couldn't help myself, eh? The girl's got the tongue of a trout.

Albert Soady: Your mother had the tongue of a trout.

Albert Soady: and if your looking for heaven, its north of the bridge.

Jimmer Negamanee: Shay, Reubensh.

Rueben Soady: Yea?

Jimmer Negamanee: Shince you ain't sherving shashties, I'd sure shike shome of those sherman shlapjakcs.

[laughs]

Jimmer Negamanee: I could eat shlapjacks every day of the weeksh, eh.

Rueben Soady: Oh, I know you could, Jimmer.

Remnar Soady: No, not flapjacks.

Jimmer Negamanee: Ya'll don't like the shlapjacks?

Remnar Soady: Macaroni and cheese, tank you very much.

Albert Soady: With spam.

Remnar Soady: With spam.

Jimmer Negamanee: How'sh about shlapjacks with spam?

Rueben Soady: Uh, fellas.

Albert Soady: J-just spam for me.

Remnar Soady: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

Rueben Soady: No flapjacks, no macaroni and cheese, and no spam.

Albert Soady: No spam?

Rueben Soady: Boys you are not only going to eat like kings, but that 2o bucks you was going to throw into the kiddie for pasties, keep it. I am about to feed the whole camp for all week for absolutely free.

Albert Soady: Give a man a little luck and anything will do for brains.

Albert Soady: For dose dat don't know much about the Superior State, dere's a couple of tings that need to be explained. First ting is, in da U.P., we don't explain tings. Second ting is, we got some of the best huntin' and fishin' in da whole world.

Albert Soady: And Remnar? Well, he turned out pretty much the way you'd expect for somebody goes by the name of Remnar.

Rueben Soady: [after drinking some of Albert Soady's sweet sap whiskey] Little heavy on the sap.

Albert Soady: A little what?

Rueben Soady: On the sap, it's a little heavy on the sap.

Albert Soady: The saps what makes it.

Rueben Soady: Yeah, well that may be, but if I didn't know better I'd say I just drunk from a bottle of maple syrup.

Albert Soady: Gimme the damn jar back!

[gets up from chair]

Rueben Soady: Alright, sa

[gets interrupted]

Albert Soady: A man who can't look another man in the hairy eyeball and tell him he's heavy on the sap ain't much of a man.

Albert Soady: As grandpa Alfonse always said, anything free is worth saving up for.

Albert Soady: "Dat year camp was as tense as a moose's butt durin' fly season."