Ira Black Quotes in Ira & Abby (2006)
Ira Black Quotes:
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Arlene Black: [Of her 33-year marriage] You two need to know the truth. It's no picnic!
Abby Willoughby: Were you in love in the beginning?
Arlene Black: [simultaneously] No.
Seymour Black: [simultaneously] Not so much.
Ira Black: [unnerved] I thought you were madly in love.
Arlene Black: That's what we told you when you were younger. It was a good story, it made you happy.
Ira Black: You were never in love? That's... that's depressing!
Seymour Black: That's why we didn't tell you.
Arlene Black: You learn to love. You *learn* to love, because you're *stuck* with each other.
Seymour Black: Well, not stuck. Um - *hinged*. Hinged! You're hinged together, so that you can still move a little, but at the end of the day, you're always together, through good and bad.
Abby Willoughby: Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's *very* bad.
Seymour Black: Hasn't been so bad, Arl.
Arlene Black: It's been bad, Sy. Trust me, Abby.
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Abby Willoughby: Do you have pets?
Ira Black: Oh, no. No. No, I - I have a fear of perishables. You know - pets, dairy products, produce. Anything that dies, I don't intend to, uh - not for me.
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Arlene Black: Marriage is not something to be taken lightly.
Abby Willoughby: I don't take it lightly, I just have a really good feeling about this.
Arlene Black: Ugh, sweetheart, it isn't about feelings. Marriage is a contract.
Abby Willoughby: It isn't about feelings?
Ira Black: Marriage isn't about feelings?
Arlene Black: No, it is, of course it is.
Seymour Black: Yeah, it's about feeling terrible and criticized.
Arlene Black: [coldly] Sy, don't start.
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Ira Black: [on their first session of marriage counseling] I can't believe you won therapy!
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Ira Black: Honey, you make friends with *everyone*. With muggers, and killers, and strangers on the street. You'd make friends with Hitler if he came in for a tour.
-- Ira Black
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