Phonebooth Movie Quotes

Synopsis

Stu Shepard is a publicist held hostage inside a phonebooth by a certain caller.

It fist started out when he answered a ringing telephone in a phonebooth. Stu comes into terms with his wife and mistress and confesses everything he has done wrong for everyone, including his clients and friends.

Phonebooth Movie Quotes

The Caller: If this is true Stuart, then I have to take somebody with me don’t I? And since Kelly is the most important thing in your life, I’ll take her.
Stu: No, take me! Take me! I’m the one you want!
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Stu: My two-thousand dollar watch is a fake, and so am I.
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Stu: So you’d just whack me for no particular reason?
The Caller: Oh, I’ve got plenty of reasons. And you keep giving me more.
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Stu: I’ve been something I’m not for so long, and I’m scared you won’t like what’s underneath. But here I am, just flesh, blood, and weakness…
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The Caller: If only you had dealt with the man decently, this might not have been necessary.
Stu: I offered him money. I offered him my watch.
The Caller: But not your respect, which is what he really wanted. You were dismissive just as you were to the nice pizza guy. You are guilty of inhumanity to your fellow man.
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Stu: Where? Where are you?
The Caller: There are hundred of windows out there. Why don’t you check them out?
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Capt. Ramey: Who’s your lawyer?
Kelly Shepard: We don’t have a lawyer.
Capt. Ramey: He specifically asked that his attorney be brought down here to negotiate his surrender.
Kelly Shepard: Well, we never needed one.
Capt. Ramey: Well, you need a good one now.
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Pamela McFadden: Look, I may be from Montana, but we have men there also.
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The Caller: TV seems to bring out the worst in people.
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The Caller: It’s not in your best interest to disconnect me…
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The Caller: What if I told you I was just above the theatre four floors up? See the pink curtains? There you go Stuart yes… Yoohoo… Yoohoo.
Stu: Why did you do that?
The Caller: Because it’s fun!
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The Caller: You think she didn’t know she was being watched.
Stu: What?
The Caller: But beautiful women always know. That false indifference, superior air. It’s just a tease. They want eyes on them. Why does she put on her make up? Do her hair? Dress so nicely? Not for her husband which she hardly ever sees, no, it’s for somebody else to notice… I notice.

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