The Apartment Famous Lines

Here are a few of our favorite lines from The Apartment.

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Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine):
"Shall I light the candles?"
C.C. Baxter ( Jack Lemmon ):
"It's a must gracious living-wise."


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C.C. Baxter ( Jack Lemmon ):
"You see I have this little problem with my apartment."


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Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine):
"Why do people have to love people anyway?"


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Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine):
"I wouldn't be to sure. Just because I wear a uniform that doesn't make me a girl scout."


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C.C. Baxter ( Jack Lemmon ):
"We're never closed at Buddy Boy's."


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J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray):
"Normally it takes years to work your way to the 22th floor. But it only takes thirty seconds to be out on the street again."


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C.C. Baxter ( Jack Lemmon ):
"You may not realize it, Miss Kubelik but I am in the top ten percent efficiency-wise and this may be the day, promotion-wise."


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C.C. Baxter ( Jack Lemmon ):
"My name is C.C. Baxter. C for Clavin. C for Clifford. However most people call me Bud."


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Mr. Al Kirkeby (David Lewis):
"Premium-wise and billing-wise we are eighteen percent ahead of last year, October-wise."


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Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine):
"How could I be so stupid. You would think I should have learned by now. When you're in love with a married man you shouldn't wear mascara."


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C.C. Baxter ( Jack Lemmon ):
"The mirror is broken."
Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine):
"Yes, I know. I like it that way. It makes me look the way I feel."


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J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray):
"You know you see a woman a couple of time a week just for laughs and right away they think you're going to leave your wife. Now I ask you, is that fair."
C.C. Baxter ( Jack Lemmon ):
"Oh, no. Especially to your wife."


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