Eric Bates Quotes in The Toy (1982)

Jack Brown: Angela! Jesus H. Christ!

Eric Bates: Is that her full name?

Eric Bates: Hang on, I got the key.

Jack Brown: You got the key? Why didn't you say so?

Eric Bates: You didn't ask me.

Eric Bates: What do you do with... your thing?

Jack Brown: Is this a hypothetical question or is there a lady involved?

Jack Brown: Come back here, the game's not over.

Eric Bates: I don't feel like playing anymore.

Jack Brown: Are you upset because I was winning? You hate to lose?

Eric Bates: I just don't wanna play anymore.

Jack Brown: What if I tell your father?

Eric Bates: He won't care.

Jack Brown: Your father doesn't care that his son is a quitter?

Eric Bates: He doesn't care what I am, so long as I stay out of his way.

Eric Bates: I know what I want.

Morehouse: He wants the Wonder Wheel,

[he and other business men get into a huddle]

Eric Bates: The black man!

Morehouse: He wants one in black, so all we do is...

Eric Bates: The black *man*!

Morehouse: He wants the black man. Huh? Oh no. No. No tomorrow. No next week. No next month. No next year.

Jack Brown: Why me? Of all the stuff in the store, why did you pick me?

Eric Bates: You made me laugh. I wanted a friend who made me laugh.

Jack Brown: So of all the toys in the store you wanted a friend. If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.

Eric Bates: Come see my train!

Jack Brown: You're not listening to me, Eric, you don't order your friends around, you ask them.

Eric Bates: Oh. You wanna come see my train, friend?

Jack Brown: No.

[They hug]

Jack Brown: [Happily] I'm gonna kill you.

Eric Bates: I love you, Jack.

Eric Bates: Was I bad?

Jack Brown: Were you bad? What you were gave a new meaning to the word 'bad'!

Fräulein: I'm gonna tell your father!

Jack Brown: Does everybody around here say that?

Eric Bates: Yeah.

Jack Brown: Well I'm not gonna say it anymore.