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A Good Year (2006) More at IMDbPro »

Max Skinner: Pardon my lips. They find joy in the most unusual places.

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Gemma: [answering a phone call from Max] Mission control.

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Max Skinner: Ludivine? Don't you think this is a bit much? I mean, she is my cousin.
Ludivine Duflot: Almost all French aristocrat have, how you say... liaison with their cousins, yes?

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Fanny Chenal: [to Max Skinner] I'm sorry, I'm too busy to ignore you now.

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Max Skinner: [sticking his fist out of the sun roof] LANCE ARMSTRONG!
group of french cyclists: [grumbling and flicking him off] Fuck you!

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Max Skinner: This place does not suit my life.
Fanny Chenal: No Max, it's your life that does not suit this place.

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Christie Roberts: I love your accent.
Charlie Willis: I love your bum.

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Fanny Chenal: There's something you should know about me, Max. I'm very, very choosy... I'm also very, very suspicious; very, very irrational, and I have a very, very short temper. I'm also extremely jealous and slow to forgive. Just so you know.

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Uncle Henry Skinner: You'll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is, uh... how much more enjoyable it is to win. It's inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.

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Max Skinner: [to Charlie Willis] Real men don't play bridge.

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Max Skinner: Never pet a burning dog.

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Max Skinner: [greeting two attractive women in a wine bar] Lucy! Ah, didn't know you two knew each other. Whoops.

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Max Skinner: I have an obligatory cultural activity in the village tonight.
Charlie Willis: Can I come? Will there be girls?
Max Skinner: No and yes.

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Max Skinner: Kenny, I want the 10 year yield, I want the figures for the Andserson account and I want you to get your scrawny little arse out of my chair. Thank you.
[hangs up]
Kenny: How did he know?

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Gemma: Tosser.

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Max Skinner: [after hiring Max a smart car] This is because I didn't shag you at the Christmas party isn't it.
Gemma: I swear on my life the hire company didn't have any other cars.

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Max Skinner: When's my appointment with the notaire?
Gemma: A little over an hour from now.
Max Skinner: My time or your time?
Gemma: Shit.
Max Skinner: Gemma!

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Max Skinner: [dealing with two obnoxious tourists] Macdonalds is in Avignon, fish and chips in Marseille. Allez.

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Sir Nigel: [yells] Have I finished talking? When I finish talking that's when you talk and it had better be good.

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Max Skinner: Morning lab rats.

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Max Skinner: [points to his shirt] Fred Perry.
Francis Duflot: [points to his cap] René Lacoste.

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Max Skinner: Joan of Arc?
Fanny Chenal: Oh. Jacques Cousteau.

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Francis Duflot: Francis Duflot, vigneron.
Christie Roberts: Christie Roberts, illegitimate daughter.

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Gemma: Max Skinner's phone?
Kimberly: Hi, it's Kimberly. Is Max there?
Gemma: Just one moment.
[to Max]
Gemma: It's Kimberly?
[Max does the "cut off" sign]
Gemma: Sorry Kimberly, Max isn't here right now.
Kimberly: Where is he?
Gemma: Max and his fiancée are at their wedding rehearsal today.
[Max gives Gemma the thumbs up]
Kimberly: Their what?
Gemma: Would you like to leave a message?
Kimberly: No I wouldn't!

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Charlie Willis: I nursed you through second degree burns. My fingers are damaged.
Christie Roberts: Frostbitten
Charlie Willis: Like your heart.

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Christie Roberts: That's what people want. Not some wimpy wine from Luberon.

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Kenny: [reading "fan mail"] You're my hero.
Max Skinner: Who wrote that?
Kenny: Your lawyer.

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Christie Roberts: Thanks a million, Maximilian.

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Fanny Chenal: Do you know why I spent the night with you? So that now you have done what you came here to do, you will not return. For us there can be no future. There is certainty in that.

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Charlie Willis: So the house is falling apart and vineyard makes undrinkable wine. Excellent.

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Charlie Willis: Well this is a disaster. Mr Froggy Wine Man has just knocked a million off our sale price.

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Max Skinner: Kenny, why don't you go and find some small animals to hurt? I know, find a poodle and punt it off the balcony.

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Charlie Willis: What happened to the diving board?

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Francis Duflot: I cannot work with this woman! Jamais! Never! I love her, she is like Henry... with a nice ass.

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Max Skinner: [as the diving board breaks and he falls into the empty pool] Bollocks.

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Francis Duflot: You know what Proust said. Leave pretty women to men without imagination.
Max Skinner: Francis, I'm a banker. I have no imagination.

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Max Skinner: You tried to drown me.
Fanny Chenal: And you tried to run me over in your little car.

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Oenologue: It is completely dead. I would suggest growing potatoes or squash.

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Gemma: That's a lot of zeros Max.
Max Skinner: Or a partnership for life. My choice.
Gemma: Now you listen to mummy, Maxy. Partner, you're made for life. Sir Nigel didn't become a partner until he was 53 and look at him.
Max Skinner: Yeah. Look at him.

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Max Skinner: [gets in on the wrong side of the car] Bollocks.

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Max Skinner: [referring to Fanny Chanel] She's fantastic.

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Christie Roberts: I spend summers working in a vineyard in California.
Francis Duflot: [Chuckles] In California, they don't make wine. They make Hawaiian Punch.

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Christie Roberts: Are your memories of my father good?
Max Skinner: No they are extraordinary. My uncle loved women, although no one for a long time, and he never married. He loved England, yet lived in France. He was an adventurer, yet all my memories take place within 100 steps of this spot.

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