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The War of the Roses (1989)
Michael Douglas: Oliver Rose
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Quotes
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Oliver Rose : I think you owe me a solid reason. I worked my ass off for you and the kids to have a nice life and you owe me a reason that makes sense. I want to hear it.
Barbara Rose : Because. When I watch you eat. When I see you asleep. When I look at you lately, I just want to smash your face in.
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Oliver Rose : You have sunk below the deepest layer of prehistoric frog shit at the bottom of a New Jersey scum swamp.
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Oliver Rose : You weren't even multiorgasmic before you met me, were you?
Barbara Rose : You really expect me to keep on reassuring you sexually even now when we disgust each other?
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Oliver Rose : [Oliver and Barbara pass each other on the stairs] Stinking bitch!
Barbara Rose : Dumb bastard!
Oliver Rose : Slut!
Barbara Rose : Scum!
Oliver Rose : Filth!
Barbara Rose : Faggot!
[Passes Susan the maid]
Barbara Rose : Morning Susan.
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Oliver Rose : [just got in the chandelier which pulled him of the balcony] I think I can swing this over to the balcony.
Barbara Rose : Stop it! Stop it! stop it!
Barbara Rose : I loosened the bolt, I was gonna drop it on you.
Oliver Rose : Oooh. That's a good one.
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[Oliver Rose pees on the fish Barbara Rose had prepared for the guests]
Barbara Rose : I would never humiliate you like this!
Oliver Rose : You're not equipped to, honey.
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[Finding out that they are going to get a divorce]
Oliver Rose : And you better get yourself a damn good lawyer!
Barbara Rose : Best your money can buy!
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Oliver Rose : Wh... why do you want a divorce? I mean... did l do something? Did l... did l *not* do something?
Barbara Rose : l can't give you specifics, Oliver.
Oliver Rose : Well, try!
Barbara Rose : I don't *want* to try!
Oliver Rose : ls there somebody else? Another man?
Barbara Rose : No.
Oliver Rose : A woman?
Barbara Rose : You wish.
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Barbara Rose : [after learning that Oliver is moving back into the home] This is the stupidest thing you've ever done!
Oliver Rose : Second stupidest.
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Barbara Rose : Get out of the car, honey!
Oliver Rose : You're gonna have to kill me.
Barbara Rose : I mean it, Oliver.
Oliver Rose : You don't have *guts*! C'mon!
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Oliver Rose : What the hell is wrong with you?
Gavin : [cut to interior of Gavin's office] If you're with a woman for any length of time, eventually you'll ask her that question.
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Oliver Rose : [mistakenly almost hits Susan with the thrown chair] Oh, I'm sorry, Susan. I thought you are Barbara.
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Oliver Rose : Nobody that makes pate this good can be all bad.
Barbara Rose : That depends... on what the pate is made of.
Barbara Rose : [pauses] Woof.
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Oliver Rose : Barbara, Susan is here. She wants to know if you are all right.
Barbara Rose : Never felt better.
Oliver Rose : [opens the door for Susan] Thank you for dropping by, Susan.
Susan : Will you go outside with me, Mr.Rose?
Oliver Rose : Let's go.
[pauses]
Oliver Rose : Wait a minute, I forgot something.
Susan : What?
Oliver Rose : Barbara!
[shuts the door in front of her nose]