What actor said "We are close, our chairs are almost touching" and
what was the name of the movie?
It was Peter Sellers as Chance ('Chauncey Gardiner') in the 1979 movie
?Being There.?
From a review of the movie Being There:
?It is hilarious when a Russian diplomat suggests to him that we are
not really so far apart. Chance, very straight faced and sincere
responds, ?Our chairs are almost touching?. He is literarily referring
to the closeness of their seats but the diplomat takes it as a
metaphor. As the doctor eventually discovers, he really is just a
gardener. The president is obsessed with him and he is being
investigated by multiple nations because no information exists on
him.?
Epinions
http://www.epinions.com/content_123708608132
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From the script of ?Being There?
SKRAPINOV :
?And I have noticed in you a certain reticence regarding political
issues - so why not a comingtogether? An interchange of opinion? We
may find, my friend, that we are not so far from each other, not so
far!?
CHANCE (an engaging smile)
?We are not far... (motions at nearness of their chairs) ... our
chairs almost touch.?
SKRAPINOV (laughs)
?Bravo! Bravo! Our chairs are indeed almost touching! And we want to
remain seated on them, correct? We don't want them snatched from under
us, am I right? Because if one goes, the other goes, and then - boom!
Boom! And we are both down before our time, you see? And neither of us
wants that, do you agree??
CHANCE
?I certainly do.?
Movie Scripts: Being There
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/being_there_12_16_78.html
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The screenplay of the movie Being There was written by Jerzy Kosinski
and was adapted from his novel of the same name..
http://course1.winona.edu/pjohnson/h140/being.htm
This quote can also be found on page 74 of the book Being There by Jerzy Kosinski.
?Chance does not have the same interpretation of the garden as
everyone else does. An illustration of this is clear during the United
Nations get-together (the party) when Chance is talking to the Soviet
Ambassador. The Ambassador says, " But Mr. Gardiner, after all ...
shouldn't we, the diplomats, and you, the businessmen , get together
more often? We aren't so far from each other, not so far (pg. 74)!"
Then, Chance touches his forehead with his hand and responds, " We are
not. Our chairs are almost touching (pg. 74)."
http://www.beaconschool.org/~dfrohman/BeingThere.html
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I hope this helps!
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