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Well, nobody's perfect.
— Some Like It Hot • 1959
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The perfect last line: a man who has been told the worst, and shrugs, because love has no further questions. Joe E. Brown's offhand delivery made it one of cinema's best closers, and it was meant to be a stopgap that the writers never beat. People say it when a flaw is revealed and nobody minds, and it works as a wry, forgiving punchline for any imperfection.
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In context
Spoilers for Some Like It HotShow the scene
Some Like It Hot (1959, directed by Billy Wilder) closes in Miami in 1929. Two musicians on the run from gangsters, Jerry and Joe, are disguised as women in an all-girl band. Millionaire Osgood Fielding III has fallen for Jerry's alter ego 'Daphne' and proposed. On Osgood's motor launch, Jerry lists reasons the marriage is impossible: not the right build for his mother's gown, not a natural blonde, a smoker, no children. Osgood waves each away. Jerry finally rips off the wig and says he is a man. Osgood answers with this line, and the film ends.
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- Wikipedia: Some Like It Hot, plot and stylePlot, final scene; Style and legacyReference checked
- Wikiquote: Some Like It HotDialogue, final exchangeReference checked
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