Drunk Guy at Bar: Oh, well, jeez, let's see, um... You don't buy as many products, you're not paying as much sales tax, some of you aren't even paying any income tax. I mean, you're not really participating in our economy, are you?
Ngoc Lan Tran: When you know death comes soon, you look around things more close.
Paul Safranek: He never struck me as the kind of guy who'd go get small. Wow!
Drunk Guy at Bar: Can I get a normal-sized beer for a normal-sized guy?
Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen: Nature is such a patient sculptor - grinding a tiny bit each day slowly, slowly for thousands of years to make such a supremely beautiful thing.

[overcome with sadness]

Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen: What a waste. What a dreadful waste.
Dusan Mirkovic: Friends tell friends the truth. Okay, maybe sometimes I'm a little bit asshole, but the world needs assholes. Otherwise where would shit go out.
Ngoc Lan Tran: Other night on boat, what kind of fuck you give me?

Paul Safranek: What?

Ngoc Lan Tran: What kind of fuck you give me?

Paul Safranek: What kind? I don't...

Ngoc Lan Tran: American people, eight kind of fuck. Love fuck, hate fuck, sex-only fuck, break-up fuck, make-up fuck, drunk fuck, buddy fuck, pity fuck.
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Dr. Andreas Jacobsen: [in Danish to technician who has rushed into his office] Yes, Jørgen?

Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen: [in Norwegian] We have it... Andreas, we have it... It works!

[the embrace]
Paul Safranek: If I don't do this, who am I? I mean, really. Who am I?

Ngoc Lan Tran: You Paul Safranek. You good man!
Dusan Mirkovic: Yes, maybe I am a little bit asshole, but the world needs assholes. Otherwise where would the shit go out?
Paul Safranek: [Paul is stoned out of his mind after taking a drug at a party. He walks up behind a random man and announces this to him] I'm gonna take off my shoes!

[the next shot shows him dancing barefoot on the dance floor]
Paul Safranek: You're upset? You're upset? I'M THE ONE WHO'S FIVE FUCKING INCHES TALL!

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Zelda 2022-03-25 09:01:09

The disconnect between the front and back is too serious. The first half is quite interesting, and the back is a bit too much... I really like Kristen Wiig as an actress.