L.A. Story (1991)

Richard E. Grant: Roland

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• [as they walk to the restaurant, a loud clanging sound is heard] 

  Harris : What's that clanging sound?

  Roland : It's a nuisance. It's my damn testicles.

• Frank Swan : What do you do for a living, Rollie?

  Roland : I deal in English paintings.

  Frank Swan : Abstract or realistic?

  Roland : Depends on which way you look at them, I suppose.

• Roland : That's the difference between England and America. The English maintain civil relationships with their exes. Americans sue them.

• Roland : Sara just got off a plane from London.

  Trudi : Oh, you must be exhausted.

  Sara : Yes, I'm shattered, but it's nothing that some sleep and a good fuck wouldn't cure, as my sister used to say. Ha ha ha.

  [everyone stares] 

  Roland : You'll have to forgive Sara.

  Sara : Oh, it was just... it was just a figure of speech. I've been on a plane for twelve hours next to a crying baby.

• Sara : Roland thinks L.A. is a place for the brain-dead. He says, if you turned off the sprinklers, it would turn into a desert. But I think - I don't know, it's not what I expected. It's a place where they've taken a desert and turned it into their dreams. I've seen a lot of L.A. and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is looking to the outside for verification that what they're doing is all right. So what do you say, Roland?

  Roland : I still say it's a place for the brain-dead.