Tommy Quote #156
Quote from Tommy in Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man
Tommy: You guys forget that, huh. I'm older than you are. I'm sick and tired of acting like a kid.
Dick: Well, it's no cakewalk being the dashing patriarch, but I deal with it.
Tommy: At my age, I shouldn't have to deal with anything. I should have no worries. I should be carefree.
Dick: Oh, I know what this is all about. You want a Nintendo.
Tommy: No! I want to relax! You know what? I'm through.
Dick: What are you saying?
Tommy: I'm retiring from the mission. Effective immediately.
Dick: [sputtering]
Harry: Old guys say the darnedest things.
3rd Rock from the Sun Quotes
‘Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man’ Quotes
Quote from Tommy
Tommy: All right. That's it. I can't take it anymore. I want back.
Dick: Well, I thought you liked Eagle Vista.
Tommy: No. You know what? They keep the TV too loud, it's too hot, everybody's on drugs. It's just like a rave but without the babes.
Sally: But you seemed to be having so much fun.
Tommy: Oh, I was atrophying. It made me feel like an old man.
Dick: But that's what you are.
Tommy: Yeah, but that's not how I feel. At least I didn't until I retired. This is what retirement does to you. It makes you old.
Quote from Mary
Mary: Well, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a singer. You know, a torch singer, like Peggy Lee or Ella Fitzgerald. I even had a stage name picked out. Marlena Albrecht.
Dick: Marlena.
Mary: A smoky room a martini in my hand spotlight, just me, center stage.
Dick: With a hep cat backing you up on a standup bass. [mimicking bass]
Mary: I'd wear gloves. Long, black gloves.
Dick: I'd have an opium problem.
Mary: Slap that bass!
Nina: You are some messed-up White people.
Quote from Harry
Sally: I cannot believe this! I've never heard of anybody retiring in the middle of a mission before! Can he do this?!
Harry: It happens. But it's rare. Sometimes it's unavoidable. But it happens. But it's rare.