Owen Templeton Quotes in Rat Race (2001)

Lucy Impersonator: How about a pit-stop?

Owen Templeton: Sorry, this is a one way flight. There's a bathroom in the back.

Lucy: The latch is broken. Anyone could just walk right in.

Owen Templeton: So? Look, you ain't got nothin' these other Lucys haven't seen before.

Lucy: [man's voice] Not necessarily.

Enrico Pollini: I am Enrico Pollini. Now, I know what you are thinking... Enrico is a girl's name.

Owen Templeton: No I wasn't.

Enrico Pollini: No pun intended.

Owen Templeton: What pun was that?

[Talking about Sinclair and his idea for them competing in the "race"]

Merrill: It's some sort of joke. It has to be.

Duane Cody: What kind of jackass just gives away $2 million?

Owen Templeton: Maybe it's a publicity stunt.

Randy Pear: What kind of publicity? He swore us all to secrecy.

Vera Baker: Maybe it's a secret publicity stunt.

Randy Pear: A *secret* publicity stunt?

Gus the Cabbie: [listening to football on cab's radio] Confederate... confederate... THROW THE BALL! That's why you're not going to get drafted! You'll be lucky to play arena football in Barcelona!

Gus the Cabbie: [to Owen] You like football?

Owen Templeton: [nervously] Sure.

Gus the Cabbie: Did you happen to catch that, uh, Dallas game last week? You can't really call it a game, it was more of an obscenity, a crime against football. I lost twenty grand on that game! And they would have won! Now I gotta work TWO shifts because of that idiot! I mean, Stevie Wonder coulda done a better job callin' that game.

Owen Templeton: I am not a bus driver! I do not work for the bus company! All right? I... I needed a ride to New Mexico, so I stole this uniform! See this jacket? This is not my jacket! Remember Marty, the bus driver? Huh? This is his shirt! I stole it! And these pants, you think I'd wear these pants? These aren't my pants! These are Marty's pants. I stole them. I am not a bus driver!