Peter Riegert credited as playing...
- Mac: [desperate to make the deal] Look, how much do you want?
- Ben: [fills his hands with sand] Would you pay me a pound for every grain of sand in my hand?
- [drops some sand]
- Ben: Ah, well, that saves you some. Well, would you do it?
- Mac: No. Of course not.
- Ben: Ah, well that's a pity. You missed out on a good bargain, for I can only hold about ten thousand grains of sand in my hands. Did you think it would be more?
- [approaching Ben's beach shanty]
- Victor: Where's the door here?
- Urquhart: There is no door. Just knock on the window.
- Mac: Jesus, how do you do business with someone who doesn't have a door?
- Victor: The ethics are just the same.
- Mac: [drunkenly] I'll make a good Gordon, Gordon.
- Urquhart: [acting as bartender] I want you to try this Scotch. It's 42 years old.
- Mac: Old enough to be out on its own.
- Happer: What about the sky?
- Mac: [observing the northern lights] Sky, sir? It's amazing. I wish you could see it! I wish I could describe it to you like I'm seeing it!
- Mac: [not realizing that the innkeeper is Urquhart] We have to talk to a Mr Urquhart, an accountant. Can you tell me where we might find him?
- Urquhart: Indeed, yes. He has an office next door, to the left, on the first floor. I know for a fact that he'll be there in about 15 minutes.
- Mac: Cal, I got a confession to make. I'm not Scottish. Man, oh man. Do you think I should tell Fountain?
- Cal: Hell, no. Don't spoil the fun. Take the trip.
- Mac: My folks changed their name when they got off the boat from Hungary. They thought Macintyre was American.
- Mac: What's the most amazing thing you've ever found?
- Ben: Impossible to say. You see, there's something amazing every two or three weeks.
- Mac: Where are we?
- Oldsen: The last coupla road sign were in Gaelic. It's not one of my languages.
- Mac: You speak languages?
- Oldsen: French, Italian, Spanish. Greek, Turkish, Russian, Swedish, German, Japanese, Dutch, and Polish. I have a facility with languages.
- Mac: I've got some chocolate and some gum. What have you got?
- Oldsen: Nothing. Niente. Nada. Rien...
- Townsman: Mister Mac! That was a telephone call from America, there's a Mister Happer coming to see you.
- Mac: Happer?
- Townsman: Yes, H-A-P-P...
- [he pauses to think]
- Townsman: ...P-E-R. They spelt it for me!
- Oldsen: What do you make of Urquhart, then?
- Mac: He smells the money.
- [after hitting a rabbit on the road]
- Oldsen: Why don't we kill it? Hit it with something hard...
- Mac: You've already done that with a two-ton automobile!
- Urquhart: How's the casserole de lapin?
- Mac: Excellent.
- Urquhart: Terrific. Thank you.
- Oldsen: [thinking a moment] Lapin? That's rabbit.
- Mac: Is this my rabbit?
- Oldsen: Harry!
- Mac: Trudy!
- Urquhart: We don't allow animals in the bedrooms, I should have told you sooner.
- Mac: Did you cook my rabbit?
- Mac: [staring at the mob nearing Ben's house] Maybe they just want to talk to him?
- Mac: Do you know about the stars, Ben?
- Ben: Well, I know my way around this sky.
- Mac: What about comets? Any around?
- Ben: Did you want to buy a comet, as well?
- Mac: Maybe.
- Ben: If you want to find a comet, you just have to look long enough in the right place.
