“Sometimes I ask myself how I'd stand up under torture.” – Annie, Annie Hall ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from Annie Hall 1977

Annie

Sometimes I ask myself how I'd stand up under torture.

Alvy

You? You kiddin'? If the Gestapo would take away your Bloomingdale's charge card, you'd tell 'em everything.

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Alvy Singer There's an old joke. Uh, two elderly women are at a Catskills mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know, and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. Alvy Singer The other important joke for me is one that's usually attributed to Groucho Marx but I think it appears originally in Freud's Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious - and it goes like this. I'm paraphrasing. I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member. That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women. Alvy Singer I hope to become the balding virile type, you know, as opposed to, say, the distinguished gray, unless I'm neither of those two. Unless I'm one of those guys with saliva dribbling out of his mouth who wanders into a cafeteria with a shopping bag screaming about socialism.