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40+ Best THE TENDER BAR Movie Quotes

The Tender Bar Movie Quotes

Amazon Prime Video The Tender Box drops on the streaming service today, Friday, January 7th. I will have a review of the movie coming soon, so make sure to stop back by to check it out. It will be linked down below. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of some of the best quotes from the film. Check out these 40+ of the best Amazon Prime Video The Tender Bar movie quotes.

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The Tender Bar Movie Quotes

We’re going home. Again.

It was 1973, and after failing to pay our rent for five months, my mom and I had to move back home to my grandpa’s house.

Grandpa’s house was a revolving door of cousins and aunts, with a full complement of laughter, and tears and an occasional nervous breakdown.

Grandpa resents taking care of his family. Your father has never taken care of anybody at all.

Don’t look for your father to save you.

The Tender Bar Movie Quotes

That’s the thing to remember about a kid. The kid always thinks he f*cked up.

Never, under any circumstances, hit a woman. Even if she stabs you with scissors.

It makes mom sad to keep having to go to Grandpa’s house.

One swinging d*ck to another.

A doctor at school says I have no identity.

If you don’t have it immediately, you’ll never get it.

Be a good son.

You two look so handsome.

Don’t tell anybody I’m a good grandfather, or everybody will want one.

Nothing in my mom’s life came easy.

As God as my witness, you are going to Yale.

Your uncle has talked to you about gambling, and that is why he lives alone.

Your mother’s gonna try to give you money; don’t accept it. I’ll take care of ya.

If you go to Yale but you don’t have any balls, how are you supposed to be a student at Yale?

We’re all here on a lucky break.

The moral of the story is, do well in school and you get to see Italy.

What does JR stand for?

What do you want to be, JR? Other than an emotional mess.

There was something about her, something different, something that gave me hope.

I’m sorry I brought you for Christmas. I think I’m seeing someone else.

Some people build houses; we build dwellings.

I understand you have an absconded father who’s nothing more to you than a voice on the radio.

My senior year was going to be epic.

The Tender Bar Movie Quotes

If she loved you, she’d take you poor.

When you suck at writing, that’s when you become a journalist.

We all have to paddle our own canoe, JR. Seems like your mom’s got you paddling hers a bit.

I love you anyway. I just don’t want a relationship.

What you do next is going to be important.

It may be possible to kill me, but it is not easy.

Never order a well Scotch. Never order it neat. It’s a signal that you’re reaching the end.

Lighten up on your drinking.

I make the rules. Unless you can take me. You want to take me on for being a sh*tty father, I’ll give you the first shot.

She’s the new poontang.

The party started a long time before I met you.

Bet you write like nuns f*ck.

You look like you had some kind of a breakthrough.

It’s America. Pick something.

When you set out to be a lawyer, you go to law school. You get a diploma for your effort. You pass the bar. In the text, it declares you officially a lawyer.

You’re a writer the minute you say you are. Nobody gives you a diploma. You have to prove it, at least to yourself.

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