Will Sly Quotes in If You Could See What I Hear (1982)

Policeman: [incredulously] Your friend is blind?

Will Sly: More or less, yeah.

Policeman: Then why the hell is he driving?

Will Sly: 'Cause he's the only one who's sober!

[Tom does a backflip over the car]

Will Sly: See?

Will Sly: [Interrupts Tom Sullivan singing in the shower] Hey, Beverly Sills, you mind if I smoke?

Tom Sullivan: In the shower?

Will Sly: Oh, I always smoke in the shower. I find it cuts down the risk of serious fire by about half.

[Will and Tom are a convertible, and it's raining]

Will Sly: I figured for ten weeks of sun, surf, and sex, we wouldn't need a top.

Tom Sullivan: Well, if the surf and the sex are as good as the sun, we're in big trouble.

Will Sly: God, his kind can really sing, huh?

[while Tom is performing]

Bert: Yeah, but they make lousy astronomers.

Will Sly: [walks into Tom's room, where the light is off] Sullivan, you pervert, it's pitch black in here.

[he switches on the light]

Tom Sullivan: I got news for you, Sly. It's still pitch black in here.

Will Sly: It's not nice to make fun of sighted people. I'm liable to go through your closet and mix all your solids and checks, and then where would you be? You'd be a walking billboard for bad taste, that's where you'd be!

Will Sly: Time to think about getting a new guide dog. I'm off tomorrow.

Tom Sullivan: It's tomorrow already? Jesus, what happened? We were...

Will Sly: They should make calendars in Braille. They really should.

Will Sly: He was saving his money to buy a braille bible, but instead he insisted on buying you these!

[Will presents Mrs. Ruxton a handful of red roses]

Mrs. Ruxton: [stunned] Oh, my! The O'Brien Red! Oh, but these are so expensive! You shouldn't have. Oh! I have a precious few of these in me own rose garden, you know...

[Mrs. Ruxton has just realized that Will took the roses from her garden]

Mrs. Ruxton: I don't allow pets. You won't be able to keep your seeing eye dog here.

Tom Sullivan: [patting Will on the chest] Oh, I don't have a seeing eye dog, Mrs. Ruxton. I have Sly.

Will Sly: Woof, woof.

Mrs. Ruxton: Oh dear.