Daily Dialogue — January 12, 2011

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?
[holds up one finger]
Curly: This.
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean shit.
Mitch: But, what is the “one thing?”
Curly: [smiles] That’s what you have to find out.

 — Curly (Jack Palance), Mitch (Billy Crystal), City Slickers (1991), written by 
Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is philosophy of life suggested by Martin_B. City Slickers suggested by Joshua James.

Trivia: Aside from the Yankee game story that Mitch tell, another true story from Billy Crystal’s life is the wake up call from his mother on his birthday. According to Billy in the DVD Commentary, in real life, his mother would call him on his birthday at around 5 o’clock in the morning (the time he was born) and verbally re-enact the event over the phone. The rendition in the film is word-for-word the true story of Billy Crystal’s birth.