Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Jonathan Silverman: Eugene Morris Jerome
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Quotes
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Kate : I need bread.
Eugene : What?
Kate : I don't have enough bread. Run over to Greenblatt's and get me a fresh rye bread.
Eugene : Again? I just came back from Grennblatt's.
Kate : So You'll go again.
Eugene : I'm always going to the store. When I grow up, that's all I'll be trained to do, go to the store.
Kate : You don't want to go?... Never mind, I'll go.
Eugene : Don't do that! Don't make me feel guilty. I'll go.
Kate : And get a quarter of a pound of butter.
Eugene : I bought a quarter pound of butter this morning. Why don't you buy a half pound at a time?
Kate : And suppose the house burned down this afternoon? Why do I need an extra quarter pound of butter?
Eugene : [to the audience] If my mom taught logic in high school, this would be some weird country.
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[while watching his neighbor undress, Eugene notices a boy from the building across holding binoculars]
Eugene : That dirty little pig! He's watching Nora getting undressed... I wonder if he'd let me come over.
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Eugene : It was a tense moment for everybody. I love tense moments. Especially when I'm not the one they're all tense about.
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Eugene : What if they took a shower together - Aunt Blanche and Nora? If I could walk in and see that I'd thank God and become a rabbi.
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[Eugene is explaining his intense desire to play for the Yankees]
Eugene : I'll never make it with the Yankees. All the great Yankees are Italian. My mother makes spaghetti with ketchup - what chance do I have?
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[Eugene has just seen his first picture of a nude woman]
Eugene : I have seen the Golden Palace of the Himalayas. Puberty is over! Onward and upward!
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Eugene : Liver and cabbage - the Jewish mediaeval torture! My friend Marty Gregori, an A student in Science, told me that cooked cabbage can be smelled farther than sound travelling for seven minutes.
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Eugene : [the saga of the liver and cabbage continues] The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife... which is more than I can say for the liver.
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Eugene : I wanted to cut my wrists but the liver had worn down the knives.
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Eugene : She saw me on the crapper! Nora saw me on the crapper! I might as well be dead!
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Jack : [after not getting the family's radio to work] Who's been touching the radio?
[shoots a glare at an innocent Eugene]
Jack : Eugene! It's about Poland, damn it! I don't want anyone touching this radio when I'm not home. Is that clear?
Eugene : Guess who's gonna get blamed for the war in Europe!