Things change, people change, hairstyles change, interest rates fluctuate.
Top Secret (1984) · 16 quotes
Most-quoted character in Top Secret (1984): in 9 of its 16 quotes
Most scenes with: Nick Rivers (5)
Good-bye Chocolate Mousse, I'll never forget you. Good-bye Du Quois, take care of yourself. Good-bye Deja Vu, I'll always remember you. [to Nick] And I'll miss you most of all, Scarecrow.
More lines from Hillary Flammond
2 quotesFor as long as a single man is forced to cower under the iron fist of oppression, as long as a child cries out in the night, or an actor can be elected president, we must continue the struggle.
Scenes with Hillary Flammond
6 scenesI know a little German. [pause] He's sitting over there. [to the Waiter, in German] What do you recommend?
I recommend the pork bellies marinated in diced pig entrails or the roast swine knuckles poached with flaming hog balls.
Anything's fine.
Hillary. That's an unusual name.
It's a German name. It means 'she whose bosoms defy gravity'.
I'm pleased to meet you. My name's Nick.
Nick? What does that mean?
Oh, nothing. My dad thought of it while he was shaving.
My uncle was born in America.
Oh, really?
But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency.
Are you in some kind of trouble with the police?
Some things are much better left unsaid.
Like what?
Well, you know... sometimes when you blow your nose into a tissue and you put it in your purse, then a little while later you have to reach in there for your lipstick or something, and your hand gushes into it, and it goes all over...
Okay, okay, you're right, you're right. Some things are better left unsaid.
Listen to me, Hillary. I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist, only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island, who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground.
I know. It all sounds like some bad movie.
[Long pause. Both look at camera]
Who do you favor in the Virginia Slims tournament?
In women's tennis, I always root against the heterosexual.