The Royal Tenenbaums quotes

View Quote [immediately after wrecking his car] Where's my shoe?

View Quote Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't?

View Quote [reading part of his newest novel at a press conference] The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. "Vámonos, amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddle****. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.

View Quote [while running away from an intervention] Skiddly, skiddly!

View Quote [speaking to Margot] I'm not in love with you any more.

View Quote Mar: I didnt think you ever were.
Eli: Let's not make this harder than it already is.
Mar: Ok.
Eli: Ok what?
Mar: Ok, I'm not in love with you any more either.
Eli: I know. You're in love with Richie, which is sick and gross.
Mar: Do you send my mother your clippings? And your grades in ---
Eli: Please stop belittling me. You never gave me the time of day until I started getting good reviews.
Mar: The reviews aren't that good.
Eli: But the sales are.

View Quote Tex Hayward: He's taken off his shoes and one of his socks and...actually, I think he's crying.

View Quote Pagoda: He got the cancer.

View Quote Raleigh: [after reading a private investigator's research on Margot background, which includes being adopted, a previous marriage, several one-night stands with other men, and a lesbian affair] So, she smokes.

View Quote Royal Tenenbaum's epitaph: Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum (1932-2001) Died Tragically Rescuing His Family From The Remains Of A Destroyed Sinking Battleship

View Quote Fan Hey Baumer, can I get a picture?

View Quote Narrator Royal Tenenbaum bought the house on Archer Avenue in the winter of his thirty fifth year.

View Quote Raleigh: You have a visitor, my darling.
Margot: Margot answers without opening the door: Who is it?.
Etheline: It's me sweetie.
[Silence. A key slides from under the door to Etheline's feet. Etheline looks to Raleigh. Raleigh looks embarrassed.
INT. BATHROOM. DAY.
Margot is in the bathtub watching Planet of the Apes on her little black-and-white television set. Etheline sits on the edge of the tub with her coat in her lap.]
Etheline: Raleigh says you've been spending six hours a day locked up in here watching television and soaking in the tub.
Margot: (pause) I doubt that.
Etheline: Well, I don't think that's very healthy, do you? Nor do I think it's very intelligent to keep an electric gadget on the edge of the bathtub.
Margot: I tied it to the radiator.
[Etheline examines the television set. There is a length of red twine wrapped around it and knotted to a pipe.]
Etheline: Well, it can't be very good for your eyes.
[Margot turns off the television set with her foot. She looks to Etheline. Etheline smooths back Margot's wet hair.]
Etheline: Chas came home.
Margot: (pause) What do you mean?
Etheline: He and Ari and Uzi are gonna stay with me for a little while.
Margot: (frowns) Why are they allowed to do that?
Etheline: (hesitates) Well, I don't know exactly, but I think he's been very depressed.
Margot: (urgently) So am I.
Etheline: (pause) So are you what?

View Quote Richie: I have to tell you something.
Margot: What's that?
Richie: I love you.
Margot: I love you, too.
Richie: I can't stop thinking about you. I went away for a year and it only got worse and I don't know what to do.

View Quote Margot: Why'd you do it? Because of me?
Richie: Yeah. But it's not your fault.