Worth Winning (1989)

Mark Harmon: Taylor Worth

Photos 

Quotes 

• Taylor Worth : There wouldn't be great sex if we didn't have awful sex - awful, mechanical, slightly painful, unsatisfying sex.

• [last lines] 

  Celebrity Auctioneer : Forty-two hundred, okay, going once, going twice...

  Veronica Briskow : Not so fast, David. Forty-two hundred dollars, a fishing cabin and a public proclamation of what a creep he is.

  Taylor Worth : I'm a creep. I'm a bastard!

  Eleanor Larimore : He's a great lay.

  Erin Cooper : I knew it!

  Taylor Worth : I don't deserve you, I know that, but I can't imagine not loving you. You're bold, you're splendid, you're intriguing, you're a whole lot of things I never knew matter. Veronica, Veronica, save me, I beg you, marry me.

  Celebrity Auctioneer : Is that all?

  Taylor Worth : And a Scrabble rematch.

  Veronica Briskow : Unlimited Mouse Olympics?

  Taylor Worth : I'll even become a meteorologist.

  Veronica Briskow : Then, kiss me!

  Celebrity Auctioneer : Sold for forty-two hundred dollars, a fishing cabin and a public proclamation of what a creep he is, a Scrabble rematch, unlimited Mouse Olympics, he'll become a meteorologist and a kiss!

  Veronica Briskow : [as she gets carried off in Taylor's arms, quips at viewer:]  Piece of cake!

• Taylor Worth : Guys, a beautiful woman is one of the loneliest creatures on the face of the earth. All I need is an opening, a ticket of admission.

• Taylor Worth : I can't touch her because if I touch her, I'll jump her. And if I jump her, I'll lose her. Every man wants to jump her. So I've got to be different.

• Taylor Worth : Poetic justice doesn't feel so good.

• Taylor Worth : Hey, don't get me wrong. I don't want to grow old alone. I love kids. I certainly love women, but I'm no Casanova.

• Erin Cooper : She has your eyes.

  Taylor Worth : Don't tell her father that.

• Taylor Worth : I love torturing him.

• Taylor Worth : Ambivalence I can work with... hate takes longer.

• Taylor Worth : After she agrees to marry me... I'm going to keep dating her.

• Taylor Worth : I'm a perfectionist.

• Taylor Worth : [TV personality gets female attention in droves]  Ladies' day at the races. I'm a happy guy.

• Taylor Worth : [to Eleanor, in shoe store]  It really doesn't matter. Doesn't matter which shoe you choose, any shoe would look good at the end of your leg.