Matthew Broderick Quotes


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Matthew Broderick's Famous Lines

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Max Dugan Returns

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Michael McPhee

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Max Dugan: My name isn't Parker.
Michael McPhee: Its not?
Max Dugan: No. Its Wittgenstein.
Michael McPhee: Wittgenstein?
Max Dugan: Gus Wittgenstein.

Michael McPhee: [looking at the new refrigerator] It has an ice crusher!
Nora McPhee: Don't crush ice! Don't crush anything! It's a mistake! It doesn't belong to us!

Michael McPhee: He's gonna go into philosophy.
Nora McPhee: Why?
Michael McPhee: 'Cause that's what he wanted.
Nora McPhee: Who told you that?
Michael McPhee: Mr. Wittgenstein.
Nora McPhee: Who's Mr. Wittgenstein?
Michael McPhee: Mr. Parker.
Nora McPhee: Mr. Parker is Mr. Wittgenstein?
[doorbell rings]
Nora McPhee: Umm... oh... what did he tell you?... Look, don't go into uhh, what's his name's room. I think there's something severely wrong with him!
[doorbell again]
Max Dugan: Uh, do you want me to get that?
Nora McPhee: It's the police!
Max Dugan: Nevermind.

Michael McPhee: Can you make money from philosophy?
Max Dugan: Yeah, if you have the right one.

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WarGames

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David Lightman

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Joshua: Shall we play a game?
David Lightman: Oh!
Jennifer: [giggles] I think it missed him.
David Lightman: Yeah. Weird isn't it?
Jennifer: Yeah.
David Lightman: [typing] Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
[Jennifer laughs]
David Lightman: [typing] Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
Joshua: Fine.

David Lightman: [typing] What is the primary goal?
Joshua: You should know, Professor. You programmed me.
David Lightman: Oh, come on.
David Lightman: [typing] What is the primary goal?
Joshua: To win the game.

David Lightman: This is unreal! You don't care about death 'cause you're already dead! I know a lot about you. I know you weren't always like this. What was the last thing you cared about?


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Matthew Broderick Quotes
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  • In a 1988 Premiere magazine article, Matthew talked about his love scene with his Torch Song Trilogy (1988) costar, Brian Kerwin. He said, "It was fun being romantic, sexy with a man".
  • Before I knew it, I was like this guy in a hot play [Torch Song Trilogy]. And suddenly all these doors opened... It's just amazing. All these things have to line up that are out of your control.
I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.”

“I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'”

“You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.”

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.”

“I never feel confident in anything.”

That will come. And if it's going to happen, it'll be this week.

“You never know. They may figure something out. I know they want you.”

If you take it step by step, it all makes sense. A lot of musicals are based on films.”

I loved 'Independence Day' and I've liked disaster movies since I was a kid. And to do one with those guys... why not? But I think 'Godzilla' with people who I didn't know anything about, I might have been worried, because it could have been who knows? But I read the script and thought it was really exciting and hey, I wasn't doing anything and it seemed like a very good thing to do.”

“When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.”

“I've done photo shoots where they wanted to put me in a lizard skin suit,”

“So get ready for Gadget toys, which I will also force your children to buy, ... And I apologize.”

“So did 'The Producers,' and Nathan and I were the same two people then as we are now.

“I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me. ”

“I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.”

“I think there is some stigma when you're playing a love scene... with somebody who you don't really know very well.”

Everything takes on huge significance. Doing this in a fishbowl is quite horrible.”

“I wish we were out of town, so we could work on these things quietly,”

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