Bill Smith Quotes in State and Main (2000)

Joseph Turner White: What's an associate producer credit?

Bill Smith: It's what you give to your secretary instead of a raise.

Walt Price: Marty, we got a new town. It's uh... Where are we?

Bill Smith: Waterford, Vermont.

Walt Price: Waterford, Vermont. Where is it? THAT'S where it is.

Tommy Max: I'm very sorry, I...

Walt Price: You're very sorry, you passive-aggressive, son-of-a-bitch... Can we replace him?

Bill Smith: We start shooting in three days.

Walt Price: What does he like?

Bill Smith: 14-year-old girls.

Walt Price: Well, get him something else. We want to get out of this town alive. Get him half a 28-year-old girl. How's my math?

Bill Smith: It's Marty, he's on the coast.

Walt Price: On the coast? Of course he's on the coast, where would he be, The Hague?

Bill Smith: [Louise and Bill have gotten into Louise's sports car; Louise rockets out of the parking space] Tower clear you for that take-off?

Bill Smith: The first rule is: Never sleep with anyone who's crazier than you are. I don't know if you're crazier, but you're right up there on the top 10 of my weird list, lady.

Louise Baltimore: If you knew me better, I'd be number one.

Bill Smith: What happens when the gate's gone?

Sherman: Like a nuclear bomb!

[Louise is driving like a maniac; Bill is marveling that she has not killed them both in a wreck]

Bill Smith: How long have you had this thing?

Louise Baltimore: A few months.

Bill Smith: You must be the luckiest woman in the world.

Bill Smith: I've had a poem running through my mind for a long time now. It's one that Christopher Marlowe wrote. It's... uh... well, listen.

[begins]

Bill Smith: Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove that hills and valleys, dales and fields, woods or craggy mountains yeild. And I will make ye beds of roses and a thousand fragrant posies...

[pauses]

Bill Smith: and... and... something, something, something, something...

[remembering]

Bill Smith: And if these pleasures do ye move, come live with me and be my love.

Johnny Jones: You see, I have to have a husband, and you said you weren't married. So...?

Bill Smith: Well, Miss Jones, a wife is just what I don't need.

Johnny Jones: But you do need money. I thought we could trade. I'll have a husband, and you'll have money.

Bill Smith: Grandma always puts me in my place.