The Birdcage

(1996)

The Birdcage @ IMDB

See Also: LGBTQ Collection, United Artists Collection

Sep

2021

Wasting your gum

From: The Birdcage

He's chewing gum. –Chewing gum helps me think. –Sweetie, you're wasting your gum.

Nathan Lane (Albert Goldman) | Luca Tommassini (Celsius)

#Gum

#Bubblegum

#Insult

#Condescension

Jun

2021

I was adorable once

From: The Birdcage

Whatever I am, he made me! I was adorable once; young and full of hope. And now, look at me. I'm a short, fat, insecure, middle-aged thing! –I made you short? –(screams)

Nathan Lane (Albert Goldman) | Robin Williams (Armand Goldman)

Jun

2021

The prop for martyrs

From: The Birdcage

Shouldn't you be holding the crucifix? It is the prop for martyrs.

Robin Williams (Armand Goldman)

Jun

2021

Yes, I wear foundation. Yes, I live with a man. Yes, I'm a middle-aged fag. But I know who I am, Val. Took me twenty years to get here, and I'm not going to let some idiot senator destroy that. Fuck the senator. I don't give a damn what he thinks.

Robin Williams (Armand Goldman)

Jun

2021

Pirin tablets

From: The Birdcage

What are you doing? –What? –Why are you giving him drugs?! What the hell are pirin tablets? –It's aspirin with the A and the S scraped off. –My god what a brilliant idea. –I know.

Robin Williams (Armand Goldman) | Hank Azaria (Agador Spartacus)

#Outrage

#Drugs

#Ideas

Jun

2021

Coffee sludge

From: The Birdcage

Ew, what is this? Sludge? –Yes, it's sludge. I thought it'd make a nice change from coffee.

Robin Williams (Armand Goldman) | Hank Azaria (Agador Spartacus)

#Coffee

#Poop

#Disgust

Jun

2000

You're not a woman

From: The Birdcage

Don't use that tone to me! –What tone? –That sarcastic contemptuous tone that means you know everything because you're a man and I know nothing because I'm a woman. –You're not a woman. –Oh, you bastard!