Cousins (1989)

Lloyd Bridges: Vince

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• Vince : You've got only one life to live. You can either make it chicken shit or chicken salad.

• Mitch : So, how did your big date go last night?

  Vince : Can you keep a secret?

  Mitch : Yeah. Sure.

  Vince : So can I.

• Vince : [at the cemetery, declining to join the funeral group]  You go ahead. No. I'll wait right here. At my age, you don't want to get too close to an open grave.

• Mitch : [at the funeral]  So, Grandpa, how come you didn't come to the church?

  Vince : God makes me nervous when you get him indoors - besides, I don't like to see people in their coffins. They always look so much smaller without their spirits.

• Vince : [ater Edie reluctantly accepts his dinner invitation]  You've made an old man very happy!

  Edie : You're not so old.

  Vince : Yeah, I know, and I'm not so happy.

• Vince : I was gonna bring you a gift; but, I forgot.

  [shows Mitch two magazines] 

  Vince : I think you might like one of these, huh? Which one do you want? "Hot Patty's Pajama Party" or "Girls With Big Jugs"?

• Vince : Nobody takes a day off when a man dies anymore? Jesus!

• Vince : [referring to Larry's motorcycle]  I'm taking Mitchie with me. I don't think ridin' on that thing is good for his gonads.

• Vince : Are you bedding that woman?

  Larry : Tish?

  Vince : Christ, Son, I hope you're bedding your own wife. No, the other one?

• Tom : So, how do you like this wine, Vince?

  Vince : Let me put it to you this way, I'd rather have a case of the clap than a case of this wine.

• Vince : You're a sight for sore eyes, you know that, don't you?

  Edie : I'm an old, lonely woman. My life is over. I try to be a good grandmother now. I'm thinking of making jam.

  Vince : I like your shoes. It shows off your bubblegum toes.

  Edie : What was I saying?

  Vince : Giving me that crap about being old.