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Danny Rubin

42 quotesScreenwriter · United States Of America · Male

Danny Rubin (born 1957) is an American screenwriter, actor, lecturer, and celebrity blogger. He co-wrote with Harold Ramis the screenplay for the comedy film Groundhog Day (1993), for which the two received a BAFTA Film Award for Best Screenplay. Rubin received a B.A. in biology from Brown University and a M.A. in radio, television, and film from Northwestern University. He has taught screenwriting at numerous universities and lectured on the topic at academic conferences since 1995. He is currently a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English at Harvard Universit

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From “Groundhog Day”

That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over, and over, and over...

Good Day

I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. [Ralph and Gus snort]

virgin islands sea otters pina colada lobster

Felix's Wife: Dr. Connors. I want to thank you for fixing Felix's back. He can even help around the house again. Phil: I'm sorry to hear that, Felix.

doctor impersonating doctor

Phil: I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned. Rita: Oh, really? Phil: ...and every morning I wake up without a scratch on me, not a dent in the fender... I am an immortal.

Immortal Stabbed shot poisoned frozen

Rita: [as Phil kisses Rita over and over discovering that he has finally passed Groundhog Day] Phil, why weren't you like this last night? You just fell asleep. Phil: It was the end of a VERY long day.

long day

Rita: Do you ever have déjà vu? Phil: Didn't you just ask me that?

déjà vu

Phil: I'm a god. Rita: You're God? Phil: I'm a god. I'm not the God...I don't think.

God A God The God

When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a…

chekov long winter Bleak dark hopeless

This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you!

Hypocrites pitiful groundhog day

This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.

Television weather forecast Squirrel

Ned: Phil? Phil: Ned? [punches Ned in the face]

Punch

[Phil Connors is stopped by the police after some crazy driving] Phil: Yeah, three cheeseburgers, two large fries, two chocolate shakes and one large Coke. Ralph: [to Phil] And some flapjacks. Phil: [to Cop] Too early for flapjacks?

Police fast food drive through flapjacks

Phil: It's the same thing your whole life: 'Clean up your room. Stand up straight. Pick up your feet. Take it like a man. Be nice to your sister. Don't mix beer and wine, ever.' Oh yeah: 'Don't drive on the railroad track.' Gus: Well, Phil, that's one I happen to agree with.

clean your room Beer Wine

Phil: I think you're the kindest, sweetest, prettiest person I've ever met in my life. I've never seen anyone that's nicer to people than you are. The first time I saw you... something happened to me. I never told you but... I knew that I wanted to hold you as hard as I could. I don't deserve…

piano teacher piano mover Kindest Sweetest Prettiest

Piano Teacher: Not bad... Mr. Connors, you say this is your first lesson? Phil: Yes, but my father was a piano mover, so...

piano teacher piano mover

Ned: Phil? Hey, Phil? Phil! Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you! Phil: Hi, how you doing? Thanks for watching. [Starts to walk away] Ned: Hey, hey! Now, don't you tell me you don't remember me because I sure as heckfire remember you. Phil: Not a chance. Ned: Ned... Ryerson.…

high school Memories

Phil: Do you know what today is? Rita: No, what? Phil: Today is tomorrow. It happened.

Today tomorrow

Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? Ralph: That about sums it up for me.

Monotony Boredom

You want a prediction about the weather, you're asking the wrong Phil. I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.

weatherman Cold Weather Winter

D.J. #1: Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today. D.J. #2: It's coooold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach? D.J. #1: Not hardly. And you know, you can expect hazardous travel later today with that, you know, that, uh, that…

Punxsutawney Phil groundhog day national weather service

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