Daily Dialogue — January 7, 2012

Paul Vitti: I couldn’t get it up last night.

Ben Sobel: You mean sexually?

Paul Vitti: No, I mean for the big game against Michigan State. Of course, sexually!

— Paul Vitti (Robert DeNiro), Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal), Analyze This (1999), screenplay by Peter Tolan and Harold Ramis and Kenneth Lonergan, story by Peter Tolan and Kenneth Lonergan

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is snappy answers to dumb questions, suggested by Richard who also suggested Analyze This.

Trivia: In the original script, there were more scenes in which Dr. Sobel (Billy Crystal) receives gifts from Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro). In one of them, former Yankee great Phil Rizzuto, at the request of his friend Paul Vitti, would give Dr. Sobel his spike shoes because Dr. Sobel is a Yankess’ fan, which Billy Crystal is in real life).