Top Secret (1984) · 16 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Top Secret (1984): in 7 of its 16 quotes
Most scenes with: Hillary Flammond (5)
Nick Rivers I'm sorry, I don't speak German...
I 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.
Nick Rivers Anything's fine.
Nick Rivers Hillary. That's an unusual name.
It's a German name. It means 'she whose bosoms defy gravity'.
Nick Rivers I'm pleased to meet you. My name's Nick.
Nick? What does that mean?
Nick Rivers Oh, nothing. My dad thought of it while he was shaving.
My uncle was born in America.
Nick Rivers Oh, really?
But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency.
Nick Rivers Are you in some kind of trouble with the police?
Some things are much better left unsaid.
Nick Rivers 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...
Nick Rivers Okay, okay, you're right, you're right. Some things are better left unsaid.
Nick Rivers 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]
Nick Rivers What's wrong with him?
Oh, he caught a cold last week and he's just a little hoarse.
Nick Ist der Tochter achtzehn bitten?
What's that mean?
Nick Is your daughter eighteen?
What the hell did you say to him?
Nick Rivers Nothing, I just told him I'd put his name on the Montgomery Ward mailing list.
