Elaine Quote #166
Quote from Elaine in The Letter
[Elaine drops something on Mr. Lippman's desk while he's on the phone. She tries to back out, but he signals for her to stay]
Mr. Lippman: [on the phone] Yeah, yeah. But she wouldn't take the cap off? But didn't she know they were the owner's seats?Aw, that's unbelievable.Yeah. Okay. All right Lenny, thanks again. Take care. [hangs up the phone] That was Lenny West, my accountant, who is a hell of a guy. And he handles the Yankees too. It's his biggest account. So every once in a while, they throw him a couple of seats and last weekend he gave them to his daughter. She's an artist, by the way. Anyway, her daughter gives 'em to some friends, you know. One of her friends shows up wearing a Baltimore cap. You're from Baltimore, right?
Elaine: Um, oh, it's Towson, which is near Baltimore.
Mr. Lippman: Yeah, but you're an Oriole fan, right?
Elaine: Well, uh, fan. You know, my father-
Mr. Lippman: Anyway, she refused to take the cap off; caused a whole big scene!
Elaine: Really?
Mr. Lippman: Yeah.
Elaine: So... impudent.
Seinfeld Quotes
‘The Letter’ Quotes
Quote from Jerry
[stand-up:]
Jerry: Do you think that the security guards in the art museums really ever stop anybody from taking the paintings? I mean, are they going up to people going, "Hey, where do you think you're going with that? Hey, come over here. Come over here. Give me that Cezanne." I mean, look at the job that this man is hired to do. He's getting five dollars an hour to protect millions of dollars of priceless art with what? He's got a light mocha brown uniform and a USA Today. This is what he's got. I mean, crooks must look at this guy and think, "Well, all we've got to do is get past the folding chair and the thermos of coffee, and we can get a Rembrandt."
Quote from Jerry
Jerry: Wait, wait a second! Go back, go back to that.
Elaine: It's Chapter 2. It's Neil Simon.
Jerry: Wait a second. Wait a second. My God. The letter. That's the letter.
Elaine: What letter?
Jerry: This is the letter she wrote to me. She stole it right from the movie!
Jerry: [in unison with the woman on TV] "...'cause you don't even make the slightest effort to offer happiness still know that I love you!"
George: This is incredible.
Jerry: I always thought there was something funny about this letter. She's copied it right out of Chapter 2. She's a thief, a bunko-artist!
George: Maybe I won't send her that check.
Elaine: You know, it's not really that terrible.
Jerry: What are you talking about? She completely misrepresented herself. I don't opt for happiness? I opt for happiness. James Caan doesn't opt for happiness!
Quote from Kramer
[A wealthy, elderly couple admire Nina's painting of Kramer:]
Mrs. Armstrong: I sense great vulnerability. A man-child crying out for love. An innocent orphan in the post-modern world.
Mr. Armstrong: I see a parasite. A sexually-depraved miscreant, who is seeking to gratify basest and most immediate urges.
[cut:]
Mrs. Armstrong: His struggle is man's struggle. He lifts my spirit.
Mr. Armstrong: He is a loathsome, offensive brute. Yet I can't look away.
[cut:]
Mrs. Armstrong: He transcends time and space.
Mr. Armstrong: He sickens me.
Mrs. Armstrong: I love it.
Mr. Armstrong: Me too.