Grant Stayton Quotes in Overboard (1987)
Grant Stayton Quotes:
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Grant Stayton: [brandishing a bow and arrow] Halt. You treasonous tramp. Conspiring with the enemy at sea is MUTINY.
Andrew: Pull.
[kicks Grant overboard]
Andrew: [to Grant] I am giving my notice, sir.
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Grant Stayton: [to Annie] I suppose we're on our way back to the jungles of Oregon?
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: I want to go back, Grant.
Grant Stayton: To him.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Yes. I'm sorry.
Grant Stayton: You haven't begun to be sorry, you hillbilly harlot!
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Dr. Norman Korman: Joanna, what motivated you to rise and get the serving tray?
Annie: I thought you might be hungry.
Dr. Norman Korman: That's excellent, excellent!
Grant Stayton: What's excellent about it?
Dr. Norman Korman: I was hungry.
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Grant Stayton: We're at sea, and I'm a GOD at sea!
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Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: [aboard her yacht, Joanna is on the phone] ... I KNOW it will cost me, but it's the CUTEST little painting. I simply MUST have it. You'll do the bidding for me at the auction? $1,700,000.
[gunshots]
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Grant, I'm on the phone!
Grant Stayton: I can't hear you, Tea Rose! I'm shooting skeet!
[goes back to firing]
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Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: [Grant has just arrived at the hospital; she doesn't know he's right outside, behind a one-way mirror] ... You mean to tell me that I have no medical recourse...?
Grant Stayton: Can she see us?
Cop at Hospital: Not unless she's got x-ray vision or something.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: ...Well, what DO you know? Extend your brain a teensy little bit, if possible.
Doctor at Hospital: You seem to be suffering from a temporary amnesia...
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: How TEMPORARY is it?
Doctor at Hospital: We don't know. Other than that, you seem to be in excellent physical shape.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Listen to me, medical people. As of now, I have a life history of a DIRTY garbage scow and a breakfast of EXTREMELY RUNNY eggs-over-easy. Now I REFUSE to be INCARCERATED in this semiprivate room -
[turns to the only other patient in the room]
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: You SNORE! - while there are no efforts being made by anyone to try and locate...!
Cop at Hospital: [to Grant, still outside Joanna's room] ... Is that your wife, sir?
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: ...I DEMAND you do something! Do you hear me...?
Grant Stayton: [to the Cop] ... No, I never saw her before in my life.
[He leaves; later, back on Joanna's yacht "Immaculata"]
Grant Stayton: ... Mrs. Stayton has decided to leave me. Let's celebrate!
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Grant Stayton: Can she see us?
Cop at Hospital: Not unless she's Superwoman
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: [on the other side of the one way window] Listen to me, medical people!. As of now, I have a light history of a dirty garbage scow and a breakfast of extremely runny eggs over easy. I refuse, REFUSE
[throws an object]
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: to be incercerated in this semi-private room while there are no efforts being made.
Cop at Hospital: Is that her?
Grant Stayton: No, I've never seen her before in my life!
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Grant Stayton: [Drunkenly listening to his voice echo into a large vase after Joanna's return] Tofuuuuuuuti... Tofuuuuti Klein!
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Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Try to understand,Grant, I don't love you anymore.
Grant Stayton: What's love got to do with marriage?
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Grant Stayton: [on Joanna's yacht, the "Immaculata"] ... Joanna, I want you tonight - How can you have your period EVERY WEEK?
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: [they're shown in bed together; Grant is glued to "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"] ... Must you watch that THING incessantly?
Grant Stayton: Yes, I must. It has a tawdry, escapist quality that sooths my nerves.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: What YOU have to escape from, I can't possibly imagine... Grant, I left my wedding ring on the deck.
Grant Stayton: Well, what can I do?
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Go and get it.
Grant Stayton: It's after midnight.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: I don't care. I want it now.
Grant Stayton: Let me just see who's in the Top Ten Luxury Yachts. This is the Big League of the Seven Seas, the one purchase that separates mere millionaires from MULTI-millionaires.
[Disgusted, Joanna goes to get it herself]
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Grant Stayton: Do we have a straight jacket on board?
Dr. Norman Korman: I always carry one, yes.
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