The Big Kahuna (1999)

Kevin Spacey: Larry Mann

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• Larry Mann : There are people in this world, Bob, who look very official while they are doing what they are doing. And do you know why?

  Bob Walker : Why?

  Larry Mann : Because they don't know what they are doing. Because if you know what you are doing, then you don't have to look like you know what you are doing, because it comes naturally.

• Larry Mann : Sometimes you gotta chew your own leg off to get out of life's traps.

• Larry Mann : Here's to the profound religious experience that comes from doing a job well and being grossly underpaid.

• Larry Mann : Well, I'll be a son of a bitch! I don't smoke, you quit drinking, Bob here wouldn't even dream of lusting after a woman... between the three of us, we're practically Jesus.

• Larry Mann : Did you mention perhaps what line of industrial lubricants Jesus would have endorsed?

• Bob Walker : Throw me in the water and see if I can swim.

  Larry Mann : I think you're missing the point here Bob, we're about to throw you off a cliff and see if you can fly.

• Larry Mann : Do I strike you as a particularly religious man, Phil?

  Phil Cooper : Not even the slightest.

  Larry Mann : Then why am I seized with a sudden overwhelming desire to pray?

• Larry Mann : Phil... man, we're in Witchita, Kansas. What does it matter whether we're on the 1st floor or the 500th floor? It all looks the same!

• Larry Mann : When Jesus comes back he's going to have to give them a 2 day advanced notice, so they can make one of those little graph things.

• Larry Mann : Murdoch? Oh, well, he's gone on to his great reward. Yeah... yeah, they say he's in Florida somewhere.

• Bob Walker : What if he wants to talk?

  Larry Mann : Well, then you talk Bob, you talk as long as he wants, forty days and forty nights, if you have to, until he tires of it. Then you come back here and tell us what happened.

  Bob Walker : You'll wait up?

  Larry Mann : Till the next fiscal quarter, beyond that I can't make any guarantees.

• Larry Mann : How long have you been married, Bob?

  Bob Walker : Six months.

  Larry Mann : You love your wife?

  Bob Walker : Do I love my wife? Why wouldn't I?

  Larry Mann : Well, people get married for a lot of different reasons, Bob. You seem like a real principled guy to me.

  Bob Walker : So?

  Larry Mann : Well, I've known people. I'm not saying you're one of them. It's just I've known them who were real principled, and then they met somebody else who was real principled, and then the two of them got married, only to find out one day it was their principles that got married. Two of them just kind of came along for the ride.

  Bob Walker : Oh.

  Larry Mann : Love has a lot of counterfeits, Bob, not to get too deep.

  Bob Walker : Sure.