"Poetry's a very stupid thing to be good at. I mean, poems are basically like dreams — something that everybody likes to tell other people... but nobody actually cares about when it's not their own. Which is why poetry's a failure of an intellectual community."

"Comedy evolves. We long ago bid adieu to the physical acrobatics of Buster Keaton, the wisecracks of Bob Hope, the witty repartee of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. The now-reigning comedy of embarrassment, seen in the films of Judd Apatow and the Farrelly Brothers and all the loss-of-virginity farces, seems particularly appealing to younger viewers, who can relate to the awkward silences of crushes, being stuck with someone who is clearly physically undesirable, or being oneself the nerdy companion of some repulsed hottie, that power imbalance being the kernel of the jest — though by the final credits, said nerd usually ends up with said hottie. Lena Dunham’s work is related to this mainstream comedy of embarrassment, but she takes it one bold step further, producing a much more subtle and sophisticated comedy of chagrin. And in Dunham’s world, there is no happy ending, only an enlightened realism."

"Aura would like you to know that she is having a very, very hard time."

"Lena Dunham - Aura"

"Laurie Simmons - Siri"

"Grace Dunham - Nadine"

"Jemima Kirke - Charlotte"

"Carol Kane - Jennifer"

"Candice Bergen - Susan"

"Ann-Margret - Bobbie"

"Rita Moreno - Louise"

"At one time, it was great what we had... the kidding around. It can't have a natural time span. Affairs can't dissolve in a good way. There's always got to be poison. I don't see why, I really don't see why!"

"Alright, where the fuck is my shoehorn? This place is a mess! There's not any food in the house, half the time you look like you fell out of bed! You spend more time in bed than any other human being past the age of 6 months than I ever heard of!"

"Women today are better-hung than the men."

"Jack Nicholson - Jonathan"

"You want a job? I got a job for you. Fix up this pigsty! You get a pretty goddammed good salary for testing out this bed all day! You want an extra fifty dollars a week, try vacuuming! You want an extra hundred, make this goddammed bed! Try opening some goddammed windows! That's why you can't stand up in here, the goddammed place smells like a coffin!"

"Art Garfunkel - Sandy"

"Why don't you leave me?... For God's sake, I'd almost marry you if you'd leave me."

"Is this an ultimatum? Answer me, you ball-busting, castrating, son of a cunt bitch! Is this an ultimatum or not?"

"Patrick Wayne - Bookser"

"Frank Aletter - Gerhart"

"Harry Carey, Jr. - Stefanowski"

"Tige Andrews - Wiley"

"Perry Lopez - Seaman Rodrigues"

"Ken Curtis - Yeoman 3rd Class Dolan"

"Martin Milner - Shore Patrol Ensign"

"Robert Roark - Insignia"

"Betsy Palmer - Lieutenant Ann Girard"

"Ward Bond - Chief Boatswain's Mate Dowdy"

"Jack Lemmon - Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver"

"Phil Carey - Mannion"

"Nick Adams - Seaman Reber"

"William Powell - Lieutenant "Doc""

"[to Lieutenant "Doc"] Then I looked down from our bridge and saw our captain's palm tree. Our trophy for superior achievement! The Admiral John J. Finchley award for delivering more toothpaste and toilet paper than any other Navy cargo ship in the safe area of the Pacific."

"[reading Lieutenant, junior grade Douglas A. "Doug" Roberts's letter] "I've been aboard this destroyer for two weeks now, and we've already been through four air attacks. I'm in the war at last, Doc! I've caught up with that task force that passed me by. I'm glad to be here. I had to be here, I guess. But I'm thinking now of you, Doc, and you, Frank, and Dolan, and Dowdy, and Insigna, and everyone else on that bucket. All the guys everywhere who sail from tedium to apathy and back again, with an occasional side trip to monotony. This is a tough crew on here, and they have a wonderful battle record. But I've discovered, Doc, that the unseen enemy of this war is the boredom that eventually becomes a faith and, therefore, a terrible sort of suicide. And I know now that the ones who refused to surrender to it are the strongest of all. Right now, I'm looking at something that's hanging over my desk. A preposterous hunk of brass attached to the most bilious piece of ribbon I've ever seen. I'd rather have it than the Congressional Medal of Honor. It tells me what I'll always be proudest of: that at a time in the world when courage counted most, I lived among 62 brave men."

"[to Lieutenant Commander Morton] Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin' palm tree overboard! Now what's this crud about no movie tonight?"

"[on the loudspeaker in reference to his missing palm tree] All right, who did it? Who did it? You are going to stand sweating at those battle stations until someone confesses! It's an insult to the honor of this ship! The symbol of our cargo record has been destroyed, and I'm going to find out who did if it takes all night!"

"Henry Fonda - Lieutenant, junior grade Douglas A. "Doug" Roberts"

"James Cagney - Lieutenant Commander Morton"

"Douglas Henderson - Captain Marvin Ellender"

"Liz Fraser - Sheila"

"William Windom - Captain Harry Spaulding"

"John Crawford - Chief Petty Officer Paul Adams"

"James Coburn - Lt. Cmdr. Paul "Bus" Cummings"

"Joyce Grenfell - Mrs. Barham"

"Melvyn Douglas - Admiral William Jessup"

"Keenan Wynn - Old Sailor"

"James Garner - Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. "Charlie" Madison"

"Edward Binns - Admiral Thomas Healy"