The Prince of Tides Quotes

The Prince of Tides is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . The Prince of Tides ended in 1970.

It features Barbra Streisand as producer, James Newton Howard in charge of musical score, and Stephen Goldblatt as head of cinematography.

The Prince of Tides is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Prince of Tides is 132 minutes long. The Prince of Tides is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Jeroen Krabbé as Herbert Woodruff, Nick Nolte as Tom Wingo, Barbra Streisand as Susan Lowenstein, Kate Nelligan as Lila Wingo Newbury, Barbra Streisand as Susan Lownstein, George Carlin as Eddie Detreville, Kate Nelligan as Luke Wingo, and Jason Gould as Bernard Woodruff.

The Prince of Tides Quotes

Nick Nolte as Tom Wingo

• (Nick Nolte) "You have to be patient with me, Lila. You've done a lot to piss me off."

• (Nick Nolte) "There are families who live out their entire lives without a single thing of interest happening to them. I've always envied those families."

• (Nick Nolte) "Let's face it, Lowenstein. Women are more devious than men. You're great at hiding things. You keep secrets. You smile when you lie. You expect a man to be a tower of strength. When he's got a few weaknesses and insecurities, what do you do? You turn around, and god**** it, you betray him."

• (Nick Nolte) "Now girls, have I ever told you the facts of life?"
• (Jennifer Wingo) "Oh, not this again."
• (Nick Nolte) "Stay away from boys 'cause they are all disgusting, self-indulgent beasts that pee on bushes and pick their noses."

• (Nick Nolte) "Hell, Lowenstein. She made a schizophrenic. My mother should have raised cobras, not children."

• (Nick Nolte) "I'm sick of my sister's attraction to razor blades; and I'm sick of shrinks who can't do a f***ing thing to help her."

• (Nick Nolte) "You do have a sense of humor. I was beginning to think you had it surgically removed."

• (Nick Nolte) "This is not about me."
• (Barbra Streisand) "Then, why are you so upset?"

• (Nick Nolte) "I don't know when my parents began their war against each other; but I do know the only prisoners they took were their children."

• (Nick Nolte) "We found a silent soothing world where there was no pain. A world without mothers or fathers. We would make a circle bound by flesh and blood and water and only when we felt our lungs betray us would we rise towards the light."

• (Nick Nolte) "At the end of every day I drive through the city of Charleston and I cross the bridge that will take me home. I feel the words building inside me, I can't stop them, or tell you why I say them, but as I reach the top of the bridge these words come to me in a whisper. I say these words as a prayer, as regret, as praise, I say: Lowenstein, Lowenstein."

• (Nick Nolte) "From my mother I inherited a love of language and an appreciation of nature. She could turn a walk around the island into a voyage of purest discovery. As a child, I thought she was the most extraordinary woman on earth. I wasn't the first son to be wrong about his mother."

• (Nick Nolte) "In New York I learned that I needed to love my mother and father in all their flawed, outrageous humanity, and in families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness. But it is the mystery of life that sustains me now. I look to the north, and I wish again that there were two lives apportioned to every man; and every woman."

Barbra Streisand as Susan Lowenstein

• (Barbra Streisand) "How did you deal with his death?"
• (Nick Nolte) "I shut down like a broken motor."
• (Barbra Streisand) "Huh. And according to the Southern way, still no tears."
• (Nick Nolte) "Oh, I cry sometimes, Lowenstein. I cry at weddings, at the Olympics. I'm real big at the national anthem."
• (Barbra Streisand) "But not over Luke?"
• (Nick Nolte) "What the hell for? It wouldn't bring him back."
• (Barbra Streisand) "No. But it might bring you back."

• (Barbra Streisand) "So you feel your mother betrayed you?"
• (Nick Nolte) "I was talking about my wife."
• (Barbra Streisand) "Oh --"

• (Barbra Streisand) "I've gotta find me a nice Jewish boy. You guys are killing me."

George Carlin as Eddie Detreville

• (George Carlin) "How's Savannah? When can I see her?"
• (Nick Nolte) "I don't know, Eddie. It's like talking to a fern."
• (George Carlin) "Well, I'm glad she's improving."

Jeroen Krabbé as Herbert Woodruff

• (Jeroen Krabbé) "That Stradivarius is worth over a million dollars."
• (Nick Nolte) "Well, if I drop it, it won't be worth s***."
• (Barbra Streisand) "Don't do it, Tom."
• (Nick Nolte) "Apologize to your wife, Herbert."
• (Jeroen Krabbé) "You're bluffing."
• (Nick Nolte) "I may be, but its a powerful bluff, isn't it, asshole?"
• (Jeroen Krabbé) "I'm sorry, Susan."
• (Nick Nolte) "Sincerity becomes you, Herbie. Now apologize to me for your unforgivable breach of etiquette at the dinner table tonight, you possum-bred cocksucker."
• (Jeroen Krabbé) "I'm very sorry, Tom."

Kate Nelligan as Luke Wingo

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Jason Gould as Bernard Woodruff

• (Jason Gould) "Where do you coach, Mr. Wingo? Hillbilly country?"

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