Annie Hall 1977 quotes, page 4

Robin

What is so fascinating about a group of pituitary cases trying to stuff a ball through a hoop?

Alvy

What is fascinating is that it's physical. You know, it's one thing about intellectuals. They prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on. But on the other hand, the body doesn't lie, as we now know.

Robin

All you do is use your physical urges and sex to express hostility.

Alvy

'Why do you always reduce my animal urges to psychoanalytic categories?' he said as he removed her brassiere.

You're Alvy Singer, right? Didn't we meet at EST?

Alvy

EST? No, no, I was never to EST.

Then how can you criticize it?...

Alvy

No, no, no, I came out here to get some shock therapy, but there was an energy crisis...Hey, you guys are wearing white. It must be in the stars...Uri Geller must be on the premises someplace.

Rob

We're gonna operate together.

Alvy Singer

I got a license but I have too much hostility.

Annie Hall

La-dee-da, la-dee-da.

Alvy Singer

Don't you have a can of Raid in the house? I told you a thousand times. You should always keep a lot of insect spray. You never know who's gonna crawl over.

Alvy Singer

You are extremely sexy, unbelievably sexy...You know what you are, you're polymorphously perverse...you're exceptional in bed because you got - you get pleasure in every part of your body when I touch it...Like the tip of your nose, and if I stroke your teeth or your kneecaps...you get excited.

Alvy Singer

You're a wonderful tennis player...You're the worst driver I've ever seen in my life...and I love what you're wearing.

Alvy Singer

My analyst says I exaggerate my childhood memories, but I swear, I was brought up underneath the roller coaster in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn. Maybe that accounts for my personality, which is a little nervous, I think. You know, I have a hyperactive imagination. My mind tends to jump around a little, and uh I I I have some trouble between fantasy and reality. My father ran the bumper car concession. Th-there he is, and there I am. Right. I I used to get my aggression out through those cars all the time. I remember the staff at our public school. You know, we had a saying, uh but, "Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach, teach gym." And uh, of course, those who couldn't do anything, I think, were assigned to our school. I must say, I always thought my schoolmates were idiots. Melvyn Greenglass, you know, his fat little face and Henrietta Farrell, just Miss Perfect all the time and uh Ivan Ackerman, always the wrong answer. Always.

Alvy Singer

After that, it got pretty late and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again and I realized what a terrific person she was and how much fun it was just knowing her...and I thought of that old joke, you know, the, this, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, 'Doc, uh, my brother's crazy, he thinks he's a chicken,' and uh, the doctor says, 'Well why don't you turn him in?' And the guy says, 'I would, but I need the eggs.' Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships. You know, they're totally irrational and crazy and absurd and - but uh, I guess we keep going through it...because...most of us need the eggs.

Alvy Singer

Annie and I broke up. And I still can't get my mind around that. You know, I keep sifting the pieces of the relationship through my mind, and examining my life and trying to figure out where did the screwup come, you know. A year ago, we were in love, you know.

Alvy Singer

Darling, I've been killing spiders since I was thirty, OK?

Alvy Singer

Did you go to a rock concert?...Oh yeah really, really? How'd you like it? Was it, was it heavy? Did it achieve total heaviosity?

Alvy Singer

Honey, there's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick.

Alvy Singer

I can't get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics.

Alvy Singer

I don't use any major hallucinogenics...Five years ago at a party, I tried to take my pants off over my head.