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Buck Henry Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“No 99, the real credit belongs to these toys. After all, we had at our disposal every fiendish and destructive plaything ever devised for the pleasure of little children. Those poor devils, all they had were real guns and bullets.”
— Maxwell Smart, Get Smart, Season 1: Our Man in Toyland
Tagged: Toys, Guns, bullets, NBC Shows
“Mr. Robinson: You'll never be young again.

Benjamin: I know.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Youth, Aging
“[in anger for ruining Elaine's wedding] You punk! You crazy punk! I'll kill you!”
— Mr. Robinson, The Graduate
Tagged: Punk, Death Threat
“Mrs. Robinson: Elaine, it's too late!

Elaine: Not for me!”
— Mrs. Robinson, The Graduate
Tagged: Too Late, Never Too Late
“Max, we're trained not to have any personal feelings. But I think you know that if I had any children, I'd like them to be like you and Fang.”
— Thaddeus, Chief of CONTROL, Get Smart, Season 1: Mr. Big
Tagged: Children, fang, NBC Shows
“Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Conversation, strange
“It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Game, Rules
“Mrs. Braddock: What makes you think she wants to marry you?

Benjamin: Oh, she doesn't. To be perfectly honest, she doesn't like me.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Marriage, i don't like you in that way
“Benjamin: Listen to me. What happened between Mrs. Robinson and me was nothing. It didn't mean anything. We might just as well have been shaking hands.

Mr. Robinson: Shaking hands? Well, that's not saying much for my wife, is it?”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: affair, Sex, shaking hands
“Mr. Braddock: Ben, what are you doing?

Benjamin: Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.

Mr. Braddock: Why?

Benjamin: Well, it's very comfortable just to drift here.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: drifting, comfortable
“Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.

Benjamin: Yes, sir.

Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?

Benjamin: Yes, I am.

Mr. McGuire: Plastics.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: plastics, just one word
“Elaine: Good night.

Benjamin: Are we getting married tomorrow?

Elaine: No...

Benjamin: Day after tomorrow?

Elaine: I don't know. Maybe we are, and maybe we're not.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Marriage, Uncertainty
“Benjamin: For God's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now, you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.

Mrs. Robinson: So?

Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: seduction
“Mr. Robinson: Do you ummm... do you want to tell me why you did it?

Benjamin: Mr. Robinson!

Mr. Robinson: Do you have a special grudge against me? Do you feel a particularly strong resentment? Is there something I've said that's caused this contempt, or is it just things I stand for that you despise?”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Affairs, contempt, resentment
“Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, I can't do this anymore.

Mrs. Robinson: You what?

Benjamin: This is all terribly wrong.

Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable?

Benjamin: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Guilt, Affairs, Cougar
“Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin, I want you to know that I'm available to you, and if you won't sleep with me this time...

Benjamin: Oh, my Christ.

Mrs. Robinson: If you won't sleep with me this time I want you to know that you can call me up anytime you want and we'll make some kind of arrangement.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: seduction
“Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin, I am not trying to seduce you.

Benjamin: I know that, but please, Mrs. Robinson, this is difficult...

Mrs. Robinson: Would you like me to seduce you?

Benjamin: What?

Mrs. Robinson: Is that what you're trying to tell me?

Benjamin: I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: seduction
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