The Royal Tenenbaums Quotes

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Raleigh: [after reading a private investigator's research on Margot's background, which reveals she's been a smoker since she was 12, she married a man in Jamaica at 19, has had numerous affairs and one-night stands with men and women, including Eli ...

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[in a hospital ward] Chas: Why did you try to kill yourself? Ethel: Don't press him right now. Richie: I wrote a suicide note. Chas: You did? Richie: Yeah. Right after I regained consciousness. Chas: Can we read it? Richie: No. Chas: Can you paraphra...

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Eli: I'm not in love with you any more. Margot: I didn't know you ever were. Eli: Let's not make this any more difficult than it already is. Margot: OK. Eli: OK, what? Margot: OK, I'm not in love with you either. Eli: Yes, I know, you're in love with...

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[Royal motions to Pagoda] Royal: He saved my life, you know. Thirty years ago. I was knifed at a bazaar in Calcutta, and he carried me to the hospital on his back. Ari: Who stabbed you? [Royal motions to Pagoda again] Royal: He did. There was a price...

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Royal: Anybody interested in grabbing a couple of burgers and hittin' the cemetery?

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Margot: I think we're just gonna to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that, Richie.

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Royal: I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.

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Eli: [to Richie] I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum, you know? Royal: [quietly] Me too. Me too. Eli: It doesn't mean what it used to though, does it?

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[Royal's fake terminal illness has been exposed and he is being thrown out of the house] Royal: Look, I know I'm going to be the bad guy on this one, but I just want to say the last six days have been the best six days of probably my whole life. Narr...

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Eli: I wish you'd've done this for me when I was a kid. Richie: But you didn't have a drug problem then. Eli: Yeah, but it still would've meant a lot to me.

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Young Chas Tenenbaum: [about Margot's play] Well, what'd you think, Dad? Royal: Didn't seem believable to me. [to Eli] Royal: Why are you wearing pajamas? Do you live here? Young Richie Tenenbaum: He has permission to sleep over. Young Chas Tenenbaum...

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Tennis Match Commentator #1: That's 72 unforced errors for Richie Tenebaum. He's playing the worst tennis of his life. What's he feeling right now, Tex Hayward? Tex Hayward: I don't know, Jim. There's obviously something wrong with him. He's taken of...

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Dudley Heinsbergen: [pointing at the battered Gypsy Cab] That cab has a dent in it.

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Narrator: All memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums had been erased by two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster.

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Richie: I have to tell you something... Margot: What's that? Richie: I love you. Margot: I love you, too.

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Margot: Do you send my mother your clippings and your grades from college? Eli: Please stop belittling me. You never gave me the time of day til I started getting good reviews. Margot: Your reviews aren't that good. Eli: But the sales are.

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Eli: Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't.

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Eli: [reading part of his newest novel at a press conference] The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. "Vámonos, amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddl...

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