Melvin Dummar Quotes in Melvin and Howard (1980)

Lynda Dummar: C'est la vie.

Melvin Dummar: What's that?

Lynda Dummar: French, Melvin. I used to dream of becoming a French interpreter.

Melvin Dummar: You don't speak French.

Lynda Dummar: I told you it was only a dream.

Melvin Dummar: Now listen buddy, you wanna do me a favour?

Howard Hughes: Depends on what it is.

Melvin Dummar: I wrote this song...

Howard Hughes: NO!

Lynda Dummar: It says you can be anything you want to be if you'll just believe in yourself. And you believe in yourself - it's just the believing hasn't been enough to let you become what you believe you can be.

Melvin Dummar: Honey, they didn't burn down Rome in one day - you got to keep pluggin'.