Water (1985)
Michael Caine: Baxter
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Quotes
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Baxter Thwaites : How can we maintain decorum if our spiritual leader is trying to put his hand up Miss Cascara's skirt?
Delores : You prefer he put his hand up my skirt?
Baxter Thwaites : Ar least you're used to it. You won't scream.
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Baxter Thwaites : We don't get too many visitors here, except people whose ships have run aground.
Reverend Eric : Almost the entire population is descended from shipwreck victims.
Baxter Thwaites : Don't underestimate your own contribution, Eric.
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Baxter Thwaites : From there you can return to Cuba.
Cuban 1 : And face Fidel after this fiasco? No, we go to Miami. I have a cousin there.
Cuban 2 : Si. We go underground and spread sedition!
Cuban 1 : No, we deal coke. Like Al Pacino in Scarface.
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[Four men's feet are protruding from beneath a bed]
Baxter Thwaites : Are you two digging a hole, or committing an unnatural act?
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Pamela : You once called me an undesirable alien...
Baxter Thwaites : I lied!
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Delgardo : [singing] Show me no mercy, give me no bail! I'm ready and willing to go to jail!
Garfield : Right now!
Baxter Thwaites : I'm not going to send you to jail for two reasons: first, I refuse to make a martyr of you, and second, it is still being redecorated.
Miguel : I can't get the paint, boss!
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Baxter Thwaites : It would seem that in the eyes of the British government Cascara is the dot above the I in the word shit.
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[last lines]
Baxter Thwaites : Smile, Sir Malcolm, as the cameras catch the dying moments of a British colony.
Sir Malcolm : Dying moments of my career, you mean. Thanks to this disaterous episode the Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher is going to have my balls.
Delores : Okay honey, stop this screwing around! I want to leave now!
Baxter Thwaites : And if she doesn't, Sir Malcolm, Delores cretainly will.
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Rob : This is the Governor's wife!
Deke Halliday : You mean she's not the hooker?
Baxter Thwaites : I told you not to wear those heels, darling.
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Baxter Thwaites : At the time, this job was a big promotion for me - youngest governor in the Caribbean. But over the years, I think my wife has resented the restraints the position imposes.
[Delores and Ben tango into the room and out again]
Baxter Thwaites : As you can see. Buenos noches, darling!
Rob : Where, uh, where did you two meet?
Baxter Thwaites : On an earlier posting of mine. I sometimes think she misses the bright lights of Guatemala City.
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Delores : Do you remember "Ernesto & Delores?" I was Delores!
Baxter Thwaites : I'm sure he didn't think you were Ernesto, darling.