Comedy Films

"If you can't say fuck, you can't say fuck the government."

"[Fuck] sounds exactly like what it is."

"How Harry Hinkle became a fortune cookie OR: some people will do anything for $249,000.92."

"It's one of those all-purpose words."

"Is he a spy? A security risk? Is he unfaithful? Or is he a nice, normal shnook out to make a lousy million bucks by sheer accident!"

"All in all, I’d have to say that this film was entertaining as fuck."

"Dough is the most important ingredient in THE FORTUNE COOKIE"

"It's the ultimate bad word."

"Louise Vienna - Girl on TV"

"Bob Doqui - Man in bar"

"John Anderson (uncredited) - Abraham Lincoln"

"Don Reed - Newscaster"

"Judy Pace - Elvira"

"There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who'll do anything for money and those who'll do almost anything for money..."

"Lisa Irwin (credited as Lisa Irwin Linsky) - Ginger Gingrich"

"Helen Kleeb - The lawyers' receptionist"

"Ben Wright - Specialist #4"

"Dodie Heath - Nun"

"Herbie Faye - Maury"

"For something rather different there’s F*ck, a moderately amusing documentary about the second most offensive word in the English language."

"Why was she planted in Harry Hinkle's bedroom?"

"Keith Jackson - Football announcer"

"Billy Beck - Maury's assistant"

"John Todd Roberts - Jeffrey Gingrich"

"Archie Moore - Mr. Jackson"

"Howard McNear - Mr. Cimoli"

"Sig Ruman - Professor Winterhalter"

"Bill Christopher - Intern"

"Ann Shoemaker - Sister Veronica"

"Maryesther Denver - Nurse"

"Ned Glass - Doc Schindler"

"Bartlett Robinson - Specialist #1"

"Harry Davis - Dr. Krugman"

"Robert P. Lieb - Specialist #2"

"All told, Anderson's film is surprisingly amusing, as well as insightful, even if viewers have to sit through about 800 uses of the word in the 90-minute film. (And that's a cinematic record.)"

"Martin Blaine - Specialist #3"

"Herb Ellis - TV director"

"The documentary offers an effervescent blend of cultural history and political opinion."

"Can you support the First Amendment, and be appalled at the often-ridiculous fines levied by the FCC for a single broadcast F-bomb, and still be weary of this word's ubiquity? Anderson's movie doesn't say, but many know the answer."

"Laurne Gilbert - Kincaid"

"Marge Redmond - Charlotte Gingrich"

"Les Tremayne - Thompson"

"Noam Pitlik - Max"

"Lurene Tuttle - Harry's mother"

"Harry Holcombe - O'Brien"

"Jack Lemmon - Harry Hinkle"

"Walter Matthau - William H. "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich"

"[on Clarence Darrow] Great lawyer, lousy dresser."

"Ron Rich - Luther "Boom Boom" Jackson"

"[repeated line to his mother-in-law] Shut up, Mother."