You've Got Mail (1998)

Dabney Coleman: Nelson Fox

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• Nelson Fox : I just have to meet someone new, that's all. That's the easy part.

  Joe Fox : Oh right, yeah, a snap to find the one single person in the world who fills your heart with joy.

  Nelson Fox : Well, don't be ridiculous. Have I ever been with anyone who fit that description? Have you?

• Nelson Fox : You know, I stayed on this boat after... let's see, your mother... Laurette, the ballet dancer...

  Joe Fox : My nanny.

  Nelson Fox : She was the nanny?

  Joe Fox : Yeah.

  Nelson Fox : [laughs]  I forgot that. How ironic. Then there was the ice skater.

  Joe Fox : Also my nanny.

  Nelson Fox : Really?

  Joe Fox : Yeah.

  Nelson Fox : That's amazingly ironic. And then there was Sybil, the... um... it's an "A" word...

  Joe Fox : Astrologer.

  Nelson Fox : Exactly. Yeah.

  Joe Fox : Whose moon turned out to be in someone else's house, as I recall.

  Nelson Fox : Just like Gillian.

  Joe Fox : Gillian ran off with someone?

  Nelson Fox : The nanny.

  Joe Fox : Nanny Maureen?

  Nelson Fox : Yes.

  Joe Fox : [Joe bursts out laughing]  Well! Gillian ran off with Nanny Maureen, hmm?

  Nelson Fox : You got it.

  Joe Fox : That's *incredibly* ironic.

• Nelson Fox : Perfect. Keep those West-Side liberal nuts, psudo-intellectuals...

  Joe Fox : Readers, Dad. They're called readers.

  Nelson Fox : Don't do that, son. Don't romanticize them.

• Nelson Fox : How much son? How much you payin'?

  Joe Fox : Well, whatever it costs it won't be as much as that exquisitely uncomfortable mohair episode there, which is NOW ALL OVER MY SUIT.

• Joe Fox : Hey, this... this fabric on the couch, what is it? Does it have a name?

  Nelson Fox : Money.

  Joe Fox : Huh?

  Nelson Fox : Its name is *money*.

  Joe Fox : Ah, Gillian selected it.

• Schuyler Fox : Your father is getting married.

  Joe Fox : Really?

  Nelson Fox : Yes.

  Joe Fox : Congratulations.

  Nelson Fox : Thank you.

  Joe Fox : Why?

  Nelson Fox : Who knows?

  Joe Fox : Love?

  Nelson Fox : Possible.

• Joe Fox : [about a sculpture on Nelson Fox's desk]  Porcelain?

  Nelson Fox : Rubber.