“I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.”
“Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.”
“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
“How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.”
“An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening. ”
“You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.”