Spenser (film series) Quotes

Spenser is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Spenser stopped airing in 1970.

Spenser was on for 3 TV movies episodes. Spenser is created by Robert B. Parker.

The cast includes: Joe Mantegna as Spenser, Marcia Gay Harden as Susan Silverman, and Eric Roberts as Chief DeSpain.

Spenser Quotes

Joe Mantegna as Spenser

• (Joe Mantegna) "Rikki Wu was sex. She was spoiled, self-centered, shallow, maybe cruel, certainly careless about other people. But she was sex."

• (Joe Mantegna) "Could you arrange for me to have lunch with her?"
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "I'm not sure she'd be willing to meet with you."
• (Joe Mantegna) "Mention to her about me being hunk city."
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "That ought to do it."

• (Unnamed) "It is unseemly for her to be having lunch with a lo fan."
• (Joe Mantegna) "Is "lo fan" a term of racial endearment?"
• (Unnamed) "It means "barbarian". Someone who is not Chinese."
• (Joe Mantegna) "So you don't fully subscribe to the melting-pot theory?"
• (Unnamed) "I'm not here to make small talk. It would be best if you stayed out of Port City."
• (Joe Mantegna) "Is it okay if I retain my U.S. citizenship?"
• (Unnamed) "What you choose to do outside of Port City is your business. But if you choose to come back, we will make it our business, and I will not be able to protect you."
• (Joe Mantegna) "Protect me from whom?"
• (Unnamed) "From me."

• (Joe Mantegna) "This may not be a routine murder. Most murders don't happen in a crowded theater."

• (Joe Mantegna) "Because you're on the board of the Port City Theater, and because the director thinks he's being stalked, I have to endure two hours of lousy drama?"
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "No. Because Jimmy Christopholous is a friend, because you are my honey, because sleuthing is your business, and because you will enjoy the ultimate theater party for two this evening."

• (Joe Mantegna) "So the killing might be connected to the play, so I need someone to -- tell me what the play was about."
• (Unnamed) "Ahem. Lou Montana. I directed. And, uh, your question is absurd."
• (Joe Mantegna) "No; an actor getting shot on stage wearing tights while singing "Land of Love" is absurd."
• (Unnamed) "Ah. And what was your response to the play?"
• (Joe Mantegna) "I found it a pretentious mishmash about appearance and reality."
• (Unnamed) "Well, art isn't "about""
• (Unnamed) "anything. It is movement and speech in space and time."
• (Joe Mantegna) "Thank you."
• (Unnamed) "I didn't expect you'd understand."
• (Joe Mantegna) "Me either."

• (Joe Mantegna) "Hey, I'm willing to tell you all I know."
• (Eric Roberts) "You haven't told me squat."
• (Joe Mantegna) "True, but it's all I know."

Eric Roberts as Chief DeSpain

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Marcia Gay Harden as Susan Silverman

• (Marcia Gay Harden) "Do you know how much this means to me?"
• (Joe Mantegna) ": Damn."
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "I'll double your usual fee."
• (Joe Mantegna) "Remind me, what is my usual fee?"
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "Two nights of ecstasy."
• (Joe Mantegna) "So double would be four. Payable in thirty days?"
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "I'll halve the time. Four nights of ecstasy in two weeks. Deal?"
• (Joe Mantegna) "Deal."
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "Sucker."
• (Joe Mantegna) "What, am I charging enough?"
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "You're charging enough -- but you'd've gotten it anyway."
• (Joe Mantegna) "I know."

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