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Rowan Atkinson, Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson, Kim Thomson, and Emil Wolk in The tall guy (1989)

Jeff Goldblum: Dexter King

The tall guy

Jeff Goldblum credited as playing...

Dexter King

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Quotes16

  • Dexter: I hope all your children have very small dicks! And that includes the girls!
  • Ron Anderson: Listen, Dexter, is there something troubling you? Something that you would like to talk to someone about?
  • Dexter: Well, yes, as a matter of fact there is...
  • Ron Anderson: Then for fuck's sake talk to someone about it, will you? And sort it out before I sack you and hire a lobotomized monkey to play your role. Okay?
  • [Dexter is visiting Kate in her flat]
  • Kate: Sorry about last night, I was very tired.
  • [pause]
  • Kate: I'm less tired now, though...
  • Dexter: I'm not tired either.
  • Kate: Great! Two people... on their own... in the middle of the afternoon... and not tired!
  • [pause]
  • Dexter: Ideal circumstances for Scrabble.
  • Tamara: I'm not wearing any underwear.
  • Dexter: Is that, uh... is that... wise?
  • Tamara: Screw wisdom! Who wants to be wise?
  • Dexter: The Dalai Lama, to name but one.
  • Ron Anderson: You're both sacked. I give you a week's notice.
  • Dexter: You can't do that! I demand to talk to the producer.
  • Ron Anderson: I am the producer.
  • Dexter: In that case, you can do that but I'm not going to give you the satisfaction of sacking me because I resign!
  • Ron Anderson: Fine, then you get no severance pay and I sue your arse for breach of contract.
  • Dexter: In that case I don't resign, you total and utter bastard!
  • Ron Anderson: [slams the door in Dexter's face]
  • Dexter: I hope all your children have very small dicks! And that includes the girls!
  • Dexter: Please? Just dinner? Let me explain: I was a complete, total, utter idiot! I have learned my lesson completely, totally, utterly!
  • Kate: Just dinner?
  • Dexter: Promise!
  • Kate: What? No sex at the end?
  • Dexter: Well, maybe - sex? Yes! Alright, if you insist!
  • Mary: Well, the only other thing at the moment is a new musical that the RSC are doing.
  • Dexter: Er, what's it about?
  • Mary: The Elephant Man.
  • Dexter: A musical of the Elephant Man? What's it called?
  • Mary: "Elephant", I think - with an exclamation mark presumably.
  • Dexter: Pity the poor bastard who has to play the elephant.
  • Mary: Remember dearest, everyone thought Jesus Christ Superstar was a stupid idea.
  • Dexter: Jesus Christ Superstar WAS a stupid idea.
  • Mary: True.
  • Prostitute: Care for a fuck, big boy?
  • Dexter: No thanks, just had one.
  • Dexter: All these weeks I've been coming here, I've been wanting to ask you something. What I really want to know is... er, what's your name?
  • Kate: Kate... Lemmon. Horrid name!
  • Dexter: No, no, not at all. Could have been worse. Could have been called Hitler, Tampon, or something.
  • Dexter: God take my testicles and fry them up with bacon!
  • Dexter: How was your day?
  • Kate: Not great. A nurses's day is always pretty grisly. A woman I was with gave birth to a baby in a lift.
  • Dexter: Well, that was okay, er?
  • Kate: It would have been, but her husband slipped on the afterbirth and broke his collarbone.
  • Ron Anderson: [as he is being tied up by Dexter] What the hell is going on?
  • Dexter: I'll tell you what's going on - first you waste four years of my life! And then you take the only thing I ever really cared about!
  • Ron Anderson: Your bicycle?
  • Dexter: Vengeance shall be mine!
  • Kate: [leaving Dexter] You paused after mentioning her name, to see if I reacted.
  • Dexter: That was your only clue?
  • Mr. Morrow: Do you want my advice on questions of love?
  • Dexter: Yes!
  • Mr. Morrow: My advice is: go blind. Best thing that ever happened to me. Since 1944, every girl I've spent time with looks the spitting image of Mae West.
  • Dexter: [can't believe his date is going well, runs to the bathroom and smashes his head against the condom machine a few times, then guiltily buys one]

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