MacIntyre Quotes in Local Hero (1983)
MacIntyre Quotes:
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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.
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MacIntyre: We're on kind of a mission.
Rev. Macpherson: Same here.
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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?
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Rev. Macpherson: You want to buy my church?
MacIntyre: Not as a going concern.
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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.
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MacIntyre: My parents were Hungarian immigrants. They took the name MacIntyre 'cause they thought it sounded more American!
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MacIntyre: Where are we?
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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!
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MacIntyre: [concerning the payphone] I need more change!
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MacIntyre: [staring at the mob nearing Ben's house] Maybe they just want to talk to him?
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MacIntyre: I've got some very fine beaches here... any beach that takes your fancy I'll get for you.
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MacIntyre: [both men are drunk] Would you leave Stella here with me?
Gordon Urquhart: Sure I will.
MacIntyre: You're a good guy, Gordon.
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MacIntyre: How come you're here?
Victor: Fishing. I have been coming here for years. I like it here.
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MacIntyre: [staring at the sky while talking to Mr. Happer] It's red all over! It's red all over!
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MacIntyre: Go piss up a rope!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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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