Steve Blackburn Quotes in A Touch of Class (1973)

Steve Blackburn: I suppose your husband likes to sleep late on Sundays?

Vickie Allessio: Yes, he does.

Steve Blackburn: I suppose you like to go home and cook him a nice big breakfast?

Vickie Allessio: No.

Steve Blackburn: Don't you like to cook?

Vickie Allessio: Oh, I love to cook.

Steve Blackburn: Doesn't he like to eat?

Vickie Allessio: He loves to eat.

Steve Blackburn: I, I don't understand.

Vickie Allessio: We have different kitchens, his is in Milan.

Steve Blackburn: It's a shame!

Vickie Allessio: Please don't cry, he found another cook.

Vickie Allessio: God, you're all the same. This obsession with male sexual prowess. It is so typically American.

Steve Blackburn: Oh, is it?

Vickie Allessio: It is, if you don't mind me telling you.

Steve Blackburn: I don't mind you telling me, not a bit. But it's just that phrase I can't stand - "typically American".

Vickie Allessio: Why not?

Steve Blackburn: Because there's no such thing as typically American.

Vickie Allessio: Whoa-ho-ho!

Steve Blackburn: It's a big place, America. Which typically American Americans do you mean? The cab drivers in New York? The coal miners in Pennsylvania? The students at Berkeley? The Mormons in Utah? The Harlem Globetrotters? How about the Daughters of the American Revolution? Are those the ones you mean? I'll tell you something. They're all throwing rocks at each other. The only thing typically American about the two hundred million Americans is that they never do anything typically alike, and that goes for humping too.