Memorable quotes for
The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) More at IMDbPro »

[Morris looks back at a chair he broke]
Morris: Sorry about that chair.
Richard: Oh, that's OK, it was... really old.
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Morris: These are very good cigars. I want you to smoke one after you get a little. You do get a little?
Richard: Yeah... a little.
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Hulse: Here's where he varied from the program. That has to be the message. We fed the notes into the computer.
Cooper: [reading] "ARDIE BETGO INDYO CEFAR OGGEL." What the hell is this?
Hulse: I don't know.
Carson: Oh, come on, can't you see? He's rubbing our noses in it! Let's just pick him up and put an end to it.
Cooper: [frowning] Is this "cefar oh-gle" or "cefar oggle"?
Hulse: Oh-gle.
Cooper: "Oh-gle"?
Hulse: Could be "oggle."
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Cooper: Hulse, I want you to put a special mike on him tonight, one that isolates everything he plays from the rest of the orchestra. Carson, you link it into the GBLX 1000 computer.
Maddy: The GBLX?
Cooper: Yeah. That thing'll break any code.
Maddy: But that's in control of our entire missile defense system!
Cooper: Honey, will you please - what are the odds of the Russians attacking on a Thursday night?
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Cooper: Professor Chermenko, what about that handwriting?
Professor Chermenko: Ah. Richard Drew is a complex man, filled to the breaking point with psychological conflicts. His violin is a substitute for severe anger and repression.
[pause]
Professor Chermenko: *Sexual* repression.
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Paula: Remember Chicago? Fate? Kismet?
Richard: No, I don't remember, Paula. You got me drunk.
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Carson: How'd it go, sir?
Cooper: Great. I haven't felt this good since I overthrew the government of Chile.
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Brown: Wouldn't it bother you to send an innocent man to his grave?
Ross: Are you serious? We're talking about my career.
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Reese: Subject in transit. Has changed his shoes. Riding a bicycle. Ten-speed, I suspect.
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Maddy: Are you OK? You seem tense.
Richard: Oh, no, no, no, I'm not, I'm not tense. Well, I did pass out today... and got hit in the head by a baseball... and brushed my teeth with shampoo... then butchered Rimsky- Korsakov in front of 1,500 people, and my clothes fell apart. But I'm not *tense*.
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Morris: I'm not well, you know.
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Paula: Oh, don't talk about Morris. All he cares about is his practical jokes.
Richard: I know, I know, I know, he's a percussionist, but still, that doesn't mean he's not a nice guy.
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[after having all his teeth yanked out without anesthetic]
Reese: [slurringly] Do you have some aspirin?
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Stemple: [while searching the sewer for evidence] Second time around this sewer and I haven't found sh*! Control yourself. Control yourself. What would Gordon Liddy do? No, I can't do that, I'm not hungry.
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Richard: [Richard, playing a violin solo, begins to ad-lib his own composition. The conductor angrily taps on Richard's music stand] What?
The Conductor: [Sarcastically] This evening we are playing Scheherazade. Would you care to join us?
Richard: Oh.
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