Dress is optional... He means how we dress, not if we dress, right?
AlexNo, I don't think so.
Why?
Alex[showing Elaine his invitation] Yours is the only one that says that.
A character in Taxi
Played by Judd Hirsch
Taxi · 68 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Taxi: in 21 of its 68 quotes
Most scenes with: Reverend Jim (6), Elaine Nardo (5), Tony Banta (5)
Dress is optional... He means how we dress, not if we dress, right?
AlexNo, I don't think so.
Why?
Alex[showing Elaine his invitation] Yours is the only one that says that.
AlexYou aren't by any chance dating my father, are you?
Dating your father? [laughs] Alex, that's absurd!
AlexOh, thank you. That's a relief. I mean, that would be ludicrous, wouldn't it?
Oh, now listen. I think I know what happened. I have been seeing Joe, the guy that you were with here the other day. Someone obviously mistook him for your father.
AlexYeah, me and my mother.
He's turning the room into a shelter. Louie is determined to survive.
AlexOh yeah? Well I wish he'd put it for a vote.
AlexYou're considered a hero here. Don't you know that?
I am not a hero. I am a stinkbug.
I bought Mario's. Signed the papers this morning and I've been running the place ever since.
Jim, Why Mario's?
You wouldn't believe what they were asking for Disney World.
AlexJim, Mario's has been on the skids for years. I mean mortuaries do better return business.
AlexJim, you give a thousand bucks to Louie De Palma, you better be there to see that he gives it to somebody. Otherwise, he's going to pocket that money himself and lie about it.
Will you do that?
Of course.
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