Jeff Goldblum: Lionel Whitney

Quotes 

• Lionel Whitney : [unwraping a birthday gift from Tenspeed]  A watch! A hot watch, just what I was hoping for.

• Lionel Whitney : Terrific, terrific! You have any more terrific ideas?

  E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner : Look, don't go climbing up my spine, hear?

  Lionel Whitney : I'm not angry.

  E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner : All I was doing was trying to get us outta there. You try explaining to a bunch of airheaded cops what we were doing hunched over a body that wasn't even cold.

  Lionel Whitney : This is my birthday, E.L. This kind of stuff isn't supposed to happen on your birthday.

• Lionel Whitney : Pardon me, ma'am.

  Woman : Watch it, buster, this ain't no swap meet.

  Lionel Whitney : I'm terribly sorry. Where would one go to report a robbery in progess?

  Woman : Oh, this is cute. What's the punchline, somebody stole your heart?

  Lionel Whitney : No, no, no, I'm a private detective working on a case. There's currently a robbery going on in this building...

  Woman : [interrupting]  Yeah, tell it to the hatcheck girl.

  [leaves]