The Wrecking Crew (1968)

Nigel Green: Count Massimo Contini

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• Count Massimo Contini : Actually, I would have preferred to live in a different century, Florence in the 13th or Germany in the 18th. Wouldn't you, Mr. Helm?

  Matt Helm : No, it'd be all wrong. I'd be dead by now.

• Count Massimo Contini : In our civilized business, this is the traditional time to offer you a cigarette or some liquid refreshment, perhaps. But since we are professional people on limiting time schedules, I suggest that we dispense with such amenities.

  Matt Helm : Oh, no, let's not dispense with any of those things.

• Count Massimo Contini : I would like to play poker with you, Mr. Helm, because you lie so unconvincingly.

• Count Massimo Contini : Ten seconds behind schedule.

  Linka Karensky : Is that catastrophic?

  Count Massimo Contini : Yes. I deplore sloppiness.

• Count Massimo Contini : Please, Mr. Helm. stupidity has a tendency to make me impatient.

• Count Massimo Contini : Errors are made by those who blindly accept the obvious.

• Count Massimo Contini : You are interfering with plans as delicately balanced as a Swiss chronometer! Therefore, I must kill you.

• Count Massimo Contini : [on viewscreen]  I could indulge myself by killing you, Mr Helm, but I will leave that small chore to our colleague Miss Carlson.

• Count Massimo Contini : You will have the pleasure of killing Mr. Helm.

  Linka Karensky : Thank you very much, Your Excellency.