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Metropolitan (1990 film) Quotes

Metropolitan (1990 film) is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Metropolitan completed its run in 1970.

It features Whit Stillman as producer, Jock Davis, Tom Judson, and Mark Suozzo in charge of musical score, and John Thomas as head of cinematography.

Metropolitan (1990 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Metropolitan (1990 film) is 98 minutes long. Metropolitan (1990 film) is distributed by New Line Cinema.

The cast includes: Chris Eigeman as Nick Smith, Taylor Nichols as Charlie Black, Allison Rutledge-Parisi as Jane Clark, Edward Clements as Tom Townsend, Bryan Leder as Fred Neff, Dylan Hundley as Sally Fowler, Will Kempe as Rick Von Sloneker, Carolyn Farina as Audrey Rouget, Isabel Gillies as Cynthia McLean, Ellia Thompson as Serena Slocum, and Carolyn Farina as Mrs. Rouget.

Metropolitan (1990 film) Quotes

Edward Clements as Tom Townsend

  • (Edward Clements) "I couldn't believe you're actually going to play bridge, such a cliché of bourgeois life."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "That's exactly why I play. I don't enjoy it one bit."
  • (Edward Clements) "He seems less pessimistic than you."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "I know: it doesn't ring true."
  • (Edward Clements) "Did anything happen?"
  • (Carolyn Farina) "Of course not."
  • (Edward Clements) "You mean you were never interested in Von Sloneker at all?"
  • (Edward Clements) "They why did you come out here?"
  • (Carolyn Farina) "To get a suntan -- and the whole thing with the Rat Pack was getting claustrophobic. And Cynthia insisted I come. She's terribly impressed with Rick."
  • (Edward Clements) "It's not something Jane Austin would have done."
  • (Carolyn Farina) "No. I suppose Europe is over there."
  • (Edward Clements) "No. That would be Brazil. Europe is more that way. You're really going back next week?"
  • (Carolyn Farina) "I think so."
  • (Edward Clements) "What can you study in France that you can't study here?"
  • (Carolyn Farina) "French. Actually, I was thinking of coming back when this semester ends."
  • (Edward Clements) "I was thinking of going over. Not necessarily to Grenoble, but to France and Italy -- though my resources are limited."
  • (Carolyn Farina) "There are some awfully cheap airfares these days during the winter season. It seems a shame not to take advantage of them."
  • (Edward Clements) "That's how I feel."
  • (Carolyn Farina) "Do you really think I'm flat-chested?"
  • (Edward Clements) "I haven't really thought about it. Well, I shouldn't say that. The thing is, you look great -- and that's what's important. You don't want to overdo it."
  • (Edward Clements) "I haven't been giving you the silent treatment. I just haven't been talking to you."
  • (Edward Clements) "I've never been this drunk before. The problem is, with Fred no longer drinking, I can't pace myself."
  • (Edward Clements) "Get back, Rick."
  • (Will Kempe) "Jesus, he's got a gun."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "I warn you. He's a Fourierist."

Allison Rutledge-Parisi as Jane Clark

  • (Allison Rutledge-Parisi) "Why should we believe you over Rick? We know you're a hypocrite. We know your "Polly Perkins" story was a fabrication --"
  • (Chris Eigeman) "A composite."
  • (Allison Rutledge-Parisi) "Whatever. And, that you're completely impossible and out of control, with some sort of drug problem and a fixation on what you consider Rick Von Sloneker's wickedness. You're a snob, a sexist, totally obnoxious, and tiresome. And lately, you've gotten just weird. Why should we believe anything you say?"
  • (Chris Eigeman) "I'm not tiresome."

Chris Eigeman as Nick Smith

  • (Chris Eigeman) "Dawn in the big city. There are eight million stories out there."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "The titled aristocracy are the scum of the earth."
  • (Dylan Hundley) "You always say "titled" aristocrats. What about "untitled" aristocrats?"
  • (Chris Eigeman) "Well, I could hardly despise them, could I? That would be self-hatred."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "The most important thing to realize about parents is that there is absolutely nothing you can do about them."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "Rick Von Slonecker is tall, rich, good looking, stupid, dishonest, conceited, a bully, liar, drunk and thief, an egomaniac, and probably psychotic. In short, highly attractive to women."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "I've always planned to be a failure anyway, that's why I plan to marry an extremely wealthy woman."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "Playing strip poker with an exhibitionist somehow takes the challenge away."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "The cha cha is no more ridiculous than life itself."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "Driver. Follow that pedestrian."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "I guess you could say it's extremely vulgar, I like it a lot."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "It's a tiny bit arrogant of people to go around worrying about those less fortunate."

Taylor Nichols as Charlie Black

  • (Taylor Nichols) "Fourierism was tried in the late nineteenth century -- and it failed. Wasn't Brookfarm Fourierist? It failed."
  • (Edward Clements) "That's debatable."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Whether Brookfarm failed?"
  • (Edward Clements) "That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Well, for me, ceasing to exist is; is failure. I mean, that's pretty definitive."
  • (Edward Clements) "Well, everyone ceases to exist. Doesn't mean everyone's a failure."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Of course there is a God. We all basically know there is."
  • (Isabel Gillies) "I know no such thing."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Of course you do. When you think to yourself, and most of our waking life is taken up thinking to ourselves, you must have that feeling that your thoughts aren't entirely wasted, that in some sense they are being heard. Rationally, they aren't. You're entirely alone. Even the people to whom we are closest can have no real idea of what is going on in our minds. We aren't devastated by loneliness because, at a hardly conscious level, we don't accept that we're entirely alone. I think this sensation of being silently listned to with total comprehension -- something you never find in real life -- represents our innate belife in a supreme being, some all-comprehending intelligence."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Snobbery is looked down upon."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "That was really embarrassing. Thank you for including me."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "I don't see how you can stand him. You're always complaining about people being frauds and phoneys. This guy is the phoney of the decade, yet you act as he were your long-lost best friend."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "Tom's hardly a phoney. Just mildly deluded. He's a perfectly nice guy."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "That's just another aspect of his phoniness. He's a terrible phoney, and when he's not being a phoney, he's a bastard."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "Oh, come on."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "You saw how he treated Audrey last night."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "Well, Audrey seems to have forgotten it."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "She has to act that way. Otherwise it would be even more humiliating. But I don't have to pretend Tom Townsend is a nice guy."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "You're really gaga about Audrey, aren't you?"
  • (Taylor Nichols) "If by "gaga" you mean, do I like her? Yes, I do."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "Well, why don't you do something about it, instead of just going on and on about what a bastard Tom Townsend is."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "What do I do? Declare myself? That would be an absolute disaster. I don't think I haven't thought about these things. But I think if the situation could just continue as it has been, they gradually, over time, it'd grow into something more. That, at least, is what I've been hoping for."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Hey, look at this."
  • (Edward Clements) "What is it?"
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Looks like some girl's panties."
  • (Edward Clements) "Jesus, that bastard."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "I can't believe you don't have a driver's license."
  • (Edward Clements) "Of course I don't. I live in Manhattan."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Where do you get off, "you're suprised"? At what? You were Audrey's escort, yet you blithely left her stranded in the middle of the dance so you can try to work things out with Serena. And then you try to shirk the whole thing off on Fred."
  • (Edward Clements) "I'm not trying to shirk it off on Fred. And I was not Audrey's escort. We were all there as a group. In any case, I'm very sorry there was a mixup."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "There was no mixup."
  • (Edward Clements) "I'm sorry I left. But it wasn't intentional."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "When you're an egoist, none of the harm you ever do is intentional."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "But I am authorized to use my mother's card: I use it all the time."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Thanks a lot. We shouldn't be long."
  • (Cab Driver) "Take as long as you like; I'm leaving."

Carolyn Farina as Audrey Rouget

  • (Carolyn Farina) "People see the harm in what excessive candor can do."
  • (Carolyn Farina) "What Jane Austen novels have you read?"
  • (Edward Clements) "None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author."
  • (Carolyn Farina) "You can't listen to what your younger brother has to say. I can't think of anyone less an authority of female anatomy."
  • (Carolyn Farina) "He can see -- It's hideous."
  • (Carolyn Farina) "No, it isn't. You're being very subjective. You know, there was a survey of girls your age some years ago and nearly all of them were convinced that either their behinds, or their noses, were grotesquely oversized. And there was no apparent correlation between this conviction and their actual size."
  • (Carolyn Farina) "Really? They did a survey of that?"
  • (Carolyn Farina) "Yes. Why don't you show me the dress again?"
  • (Carolyn Farina) "Tom's not used to places like this. Maybe he went through one of those stairway doors that lock from the inside."
  • (Chris Eigeman) "He can't get locked in. I used to have to use those doors when people forgot to invite me to their parties."

Dylan Hundley as Sally Fowler

  • (Dylan Hundley) "What have you against Tom?"
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Just one thing: He's not a good person."
  • (Dylan Hundley) "Good night. Oh -- good luck with your Fourierism."

Bryan Leder as Fred Neff

  • (Bryan Leder) "Men are dates, date substitutes or potential dates. I find that dehumanizing."

Ellia Thompson as Serena Slocum

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Will Kempe as Rick Von Sloneker

  • (Will Kempe) "Get outta here and take this flat-chested, goody-goody, pain in the neck with you"
  • (Edward Clements) "She is NOT a goody-goody."

Isabel Gillies as Cynthia McLean

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