The Impostors (1998)

Tony Shalhoub: First Mate

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Quotes 

• Sparks : [shaking hands]  Do you feel that grip?

  First Mate : I do sir. I do.

  Sparks : Powerful enough to snap the neck of a small beast, and yet sensitive enough to caress the tender throat of a young castrato. Coax a song out of him.

• First Mate : [in foreign language]  And I'll return to you our deposed queen; who bathed in champagne while we never bathed at all.

  Regina, Woman on Radio : [in foreign language]  I bathed.

  First Mate : [in foreign language]  WELL, I DIDN'T!

• Happy Franks : Don't kid a kidder kid! People are afraid of poverty, of war, of pestilence, of not knowing who they are or what they want, of dogs, and I say - Don't! Don't fear these things! They're not real. You want something to fear? Do you know what to fear? Love. Fear love. Love is real and it is terrifying. If you're going to be afraid, be afraid when someone says...

  [he is cut off in mid-sentence as other camera angles show the other characters say "I love you" in different ways] 

  Johnny Leguard : [to Mrs. Essendine]  I love you.

  Maxine : [to the sheik]  Je t'aime.

  Captain : [to the deposed queen]  Ti amo.

  Meistrich : [to Lili]  Ich liebe dich.

  Sparks : [to Maurice, who is dressed in drag]  I lo-

  [Maurice stops him] 

  First Mate : [in foreign language, to bomb which he hid in his coat]  I love you.

  Emily : [to Happy]  I love you!