MacIntyre Quotes in Local Hero (1983)

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MacIntyre Quotes:

  • Urquhart: [acting as bartender] I want you to try this Scotch. It's 42 years old.

    MacIntyre: Old enough to be out on its own.

  • MacIntyre: We're on kind of a mission.

    Rev. Macpherson: Same here.

  • MacIntyre: [desperate to make the deal] Look, how much do you want?

    Ben Knox: [fills his hands with sand] Would you pay me a pound for every grain of sand in my hand?

    [drops some sand]

    Ben Knox: Ah, well, that saves you some. Well, would you do it?

    MacIntyre: No. Of course not.

    Ben Knox: Ah, well that's a pity. You missed out on a good bargain, for I can only hold about ten thousand grains of sand in my hands. Did you think it would be more?

  • Rev. Macpherson: You want to buy my church?

    MacIntyre: Not as a going concern.

  • MacIntyre: What's the most amazing thing you've ever found?

    Ben Knox: Impossible to say. You see, there's something amazing every two or three weeks.

  • MacIntyre: My parents were Hungarian immigrants. They took the name MacIntyre 'cause they thought it sounded more American!

  • MacIntyre: Where are we?

  • Happer: What about the sky?

    MacIntyre: [observing the northern lights] Sky, sir? It's amazing. I wish you could see it! I wish I could describe it to you like I'm seeing it!

  • [repeated line]

    MacIntyre: [concerning the payphone] I need more change!

  • MacIntyre: [staring at the mob nearing Ben's house] Maybe they just want to talk to him?

  • MacIntyre: I've got some very fine beaches here... any beach that takes your fancy I'll get for you.

  • MacIntyre: [both men are drunk] Would you leave Stella here with me?

    Gordon Urquhart: Sure I will.

    MacIntyre: You're a good guy, Gordon.

  • MacIntyre: How come you're here?

    Victor: Fishing. I have been coming here for years. I like it here.

  • MacIntyre: [staring at the sky while talking to Mr. Happer] It's red all over! It's red all over!

  • MacIntyre: Go piss up a rope!

  • Urquhart: How's the casserole de lapin?

    MacIntyre: Excellent.

    Urquhart: Terrific. Thank you.

    Oldsen: [thinking a moment] Lapin? That's rabbit.

    MacIntyre: Is this my rabbit?

    Oldsen: Harry!

    MacIntyre: Trudy!

    Urquhart: We don't allow animals in the bedrooms, I should have told you sooner.

  • MacIntyre: [not realizing that the innkeeper is Urquhart] We have to talk to a Mr Urquhart, an accountant. Can you tell me where we might find him?

    Urquhart: Indeed, yes. He has an office next door, to the left, on the first floor. I know for a fact that he'll be there in about 15 minutes.

  • Townsman: Mister Mac! That was a telephone call from America, there's a Mister Happer coming to see you.

    MacIntyre: Happer?

    Townsman: Yes, H-A-P-P...

    [he pauses to think]

    Townsman: ...P-E-R. They spelt it for me!

  • MacIntyre: Can you imagine a world without oil? No automobiles, no heat.

    Oldsen: And polish.

    MacIntyre: No ink.

    Oldsen: And nylon.

    MacIntyre: No detergents.

    Oldsen: And Perspex. You wouldn't get any Perspex.

    MacIntyre: No polythene.

    Oldsen: Dry-cleaning fluid.

    MacIntyre: And water-proof coats. They make dry-cleaning fluid out of oil?

    Oldsen: Yeah, didn't you know that?

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