Jerry Fletcher Quotes in Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Jerry Fletcher: Love gives you wings. It makes you fly. I don't even call it love. I call it Geronimo. When you're in love, you'll jump right from the top of the Empire State and you won't care, screaming "Geronimo" the whole way down. I love her so bad, I just... whoa, she wrecks me. I'd die for her.

[Walking through a metal detector]

Jerry Fletcher: Why is this thing safe for me and not for my keys?

Jerry Fletcher: A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.

Jerry Fletcher: To be normal, to drink Coca-Cola and eat Kentucky Fried Chicken is to be in a conspiracy against yourself.

Alice Sutton: [Speaking through the air ducts] Where are you, Jerry?

Jerry Fletcher: I'm here.

Alice Sutton: Where's "here", Jerry?

Jerry Fletcher: On the floor.

Alice Sutton: He said a dog bit his nose.

Jerry Fletcher: Arf.

Alice Sutton: I love you, too.

Jerry Fletcher: Oh Alice... now you tell me.

[Before getting a needle]

Jerry Fletcher: What's that?

Dr. Jonas: Gravy for the brain.

Jerry Fletcher: No! Not Gravy! Nooooooo!

[first lines]

Jerry Fletcher: July eighth, 1979, all the fathers of Nobel Prize winners were rounded up by United Nations military units, all right, and actually forced at gunpoint to give semen samples in little plastic jars, which are now stored below Rockefeller Center underneath the ice skating rink...

[last lines]

Jerry Fletcher: [starts singing] I need you, baby. To warm the lonely nights...

[Flip and Lowry join in:... Oh pretty baby... ]

Jerry Fletcher: We got a future.

Jerry Fletcher: [to himself, while eating hospital oatmeal] What a grueling experience.

Alice Sutton: [after seeing a painting of herself on horseback in Jerry's apartment] What was that?

Jerry Fletcher: That was here when I moved in.

[Alice is looking at the firewall material on the wall in Jerry's apartment as Jerry balances a bottle on the door knob]

Alice Sutton: Is this supposed to protect you from aliens or something?

Jerry Fletcher: No, no, it's just a beer bottle.

Jerry Fletcher: I am an American citizen, and I demand to see Alice Sutton.

Jerry Fletcher: The Vietnam War was fought over a bet that Howard Hughes lost to Aristotle Onassis.