Summer Rental (1985)

Rip Torn: Scully

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• Scully : [Discussing the ocean]  She'll make ya rich, or she'll feed ya to the fishes. If she wants you to dance, sonny boy, you've got to follow her lead.

  Jack Chester : Didn't I read that on your bathroom wall?

  Scully : Yes. And it's as true today as when I hung it there.

• Scully : Hey mate! Good to see you. What can I get ya?

  Jack Chester : How about... drunk.

  Scully : [laughing]  We can handle that!

  Jack Chester : [receives shot of rum]  Do you have an ice cube for this?

• Jack Chester : Where's Angus with that sail? There's only two more shopping days left.

  Scully : He's searching the entire coast for it. I'm sure he'll find it.

  Jack Chester : How can you be so sure?

  Scully : If he don't, I'll kill him.

• Scully : There's nothing like the sea to lift your spirits and put a song in your heart.

  Jack Chester : I know what you mean. You must know a lot of ocean songs.

  Scully : I do. Here's a sea ditty my mother taught me.

  [singing] 

  Scully : Love, Exciting and new, Come aboard, We're expecting you, And love, Life's sweetest reward, Let if flow

  Jack Chester , Scully : It flows back to you, The Love Boat...

• Jack Chester : Your wrong. You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong!

  Scully : I'm trying to tell you that as a fighter, pound for pound, my boy, Jimmy Cagney, will disintegrate your Sylvester Stallone. He'll knock his block off!

  Jack Chester : In a street fight, maybe. I give you that. But, not in a movie!

• Scully : We name vessels after women to remind us to treat them gently like ladies; otherwise, they won't respond like ladies. So, remember, always gentle on the tiller.

• Scully : You dumb Swede!

  Angus MacLachlan : I ain't a dumb Swede. A dumb Scot!

• Scully : The sea is a wondrous, mysterious, dangerous lady. She'll make you rich or she'll feed you to the fishes. You can't control her. You got to give yourself to her. She wants you to dance, sonny boy! You got to follow her lead.