Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

Richard Benjamin: Neil Klugman

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Quotes 

• Brenda Patimkin : Are you serious?

  Neil Klugman : I'm way the hell past serious: I'm suicidal.

• Neil Klugman : [discussing birth control]  What do you take?

  Brenda Patimkin : Nothing. Turn off the water.

  Neil Klugman : Nothing?

  Brenda Patimkin : Listen, I tried the pills, but they made me fat and made me sick, and besides every single day you read something new about them in the paper, so I decided I was better off with nothing.

  Neil Klugman : [pause]  Brenda, I'd like to talk to you about nothing.

• Neil Klugman : Hey, I meant to ask you. About those pills, don't you have to take them in the morning? Does it make a difference when you take them?

  Brenda Patimkin : I don't take them.

  Neil Klugman : [drops his soap bar in astonishment] 

• Brenda Patimkin : Look, I'm not gonna take the pills, and that's the end of it. In the first place, you don't just *take* the pills: you have to start taking them at a specific time.

  Neil Klugman : You get a diaphragm.

• Ben Patimkin : Let me tell ya somethin'. In the real world you need a little gonif in ya. You know what that means: gonif?

  Neil Klugman : Thief.