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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards in Seinfeld (1989)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Elaine Benes

Seinfeld

Julia Louis-Dreyfus credited as playing...

Elaine Benes

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Quotes84

  • Elaine: You know what your problem is? Your standards are too high.
  • Jerry: I went out with you.
  • Elaine: That's because my standards are too low.
  • Cosmo Kramer: [enters Jerry's apartment. Slams money on the counter] I'm out!
  • Elaine: What?
  • Cosmo Kramer: Yeah, I'm out. I'm out of the contest.
  • George Costanza: Well, I heard a noise.
  • Jerry: What noise?
  • George Costanza: You know, blah...
  • Jerry: What blah?
  • George Costanza: From the bathroom.
  • Jerry: Oh, you think she was refunding?
  • George Costanza: Every time we go out to eat the minute we we're done eating she's running to the bathroom.
  • Elaine: So you're concerned?
  • George Costanza: Elaine, of course I'm concerned... I'm payin' for those meals! It's like throwing money down the toilet!
  • Elaine: Where's Kramer?
  • Jerry: Who knows? It's like asking where's Waldo.
  • George Costanza: [George rushes into Jerry's apartment] Did anybody call here asking for Vandelay Industries?
  • Jerry: No, what happened to you?
  • George Costanza: All right, listen closely, I was at the unemployment office and I told them I was very close to getting a job with Vandelay Industries, and I gave them your phone number. So now, when the phone rings, you have to answer "Vandelay Industries".
  • Jerry: I'm Vandelay Industries?
  • George Costanza: Right.
  • Jerry: What is that?
  • George Costanza: You're in latex.
  • Jerry: What do I do with latex?
  • George Costanza: I don't know, you manufacture it.
  • Elaine: Right here in this little apartment?
  • Jerry: And what do I say about you?
  • George Costanza: You're considering hiring me for your latex salesman.
  • Jerry: I'm gonna hire you as my latex salesman? I don't think so. Why would I do that?
  • George Costanza: Because I asked you to.
  • Jerry: If you think I'm looking for someone to just sit at a desk, pushing papers around, you can forget it. I get enough headaches just trying to manufacture the stuff.
  • Elaine Benes: Perhaps there's more to Newman than meets the eye.
  • Jerry: No, there's less.
  • George Costanza: You don't think she'd yada yada sex?
  • Elaine: [raising hand] I've yada yada'ed sex.
  • George Costanza: Really?
  • Elaine: Yeah. I met this lawyer, we went out to dinner, I had the lobster bisque, we went back to my place, yada yada yada, I never heard from him again.
  • Jerry: But you yada yada'd over the best part.
  • Elaine: No, I mentioned the bisque.
  • Frank Costanza: My George isn't clever enough to hatch a scheme like this.
  • Elaine: You got that right.
  • Frank Costanza: What the hell does that mean?
  • Elaine: That means whatever the hell you want it to mean.
  • Frank Costanza: You saying you want a piece of me?
  • [hits his chest]
  • Elaine: I could drop you like a bag of dirt.
  • Frank Costanza: [yelling] You want a piece of me? You got it!
  • Mr. Peterman: Elaine, can you keep a secret?
  • Elaine: No sir, I can't.
  • Elaine: Ugh, I hate people.
  • Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.
  • Elaine: [making a toast] Here's to those who wish us well, and those who don't can go to hell.
  • Jerry: Oh, this is interesting...
  • Elaine: What?
  • Jerry: Jane's topless.
  • [everyone takes a look]
  • Cosmo Kramer: Yo yo ma.
  • Jerry: Boutros Boutros Ghali...
  • Elaine: Nice rack.
  • Jerry: What are you saying?
  • Elaine: I'm not saying anything.
  • Jerry: You're saying something.
  • Elaine: What could I be saying?
  • Jerry: Well you're not saying nothing so you must me saying something.
  • Elaine: If I were saying something, I would have said it.
  • Jerry: So why don't you say it?
  • Elaine: I said it.
  • Jerry: What did you say?
  • Elaine: Nothing.
  • Elaine: I'm not a lesbian. I hate men, but I'm not a lesbian.
  • [Puddy is wearing a bright orange jacket with an 8 ball on it]
  • Elaine: What's this? What happened to your fur?
  • David Puddy: I saw Jerry wearing his. He looked like a bit of a dandy. Check this out. 8 ball. You got a question, you ask the 8 ball.
  • Elaine: So you're going to wear this all the time?
  • David Puddy: All signs point to yes.
  • [staff meeting at J. Peterman; Anna, one of Elaine's employees, enters wearing George's Yankee jacket]
  • Elaine: Anna, whose jacket is that?
  • Anna: It's mine.
  • Elaine: Oh really? Because, it looks a bit big on you. It looks like something a short, stocky, slow-witted bald man would wear.
  • [George is wearing a toupee]
  • Elaine: YOU'RE BALD.
  • George Costanza: Correction. I WAS bald.
  • Elaine: All right, let's go, I'll give you half an hour.
  • Jerry: You're serious?
  • Elaine: Jerry, we have to have sex to save the friendship.
  • Jerry: Sex to SAVE the friendship. Well if we have to, we have to.
  • Blaine: What was bad about The English Patient?
  • Elaine: Only that it sucked.
  • Jerry: You will be stunned.
  • Elaine: Stunned by soup?
  • Jerry: You can't eat this soup standing up. Your knees buckle.

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