How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Lost in Translation.
Quote #1
Charlotte answers the door. Bob's wearing a hideous yellow-and-orange camouflage T-shirt.
CHARLOTTE: You really are having a mid-life crisis, huh?
BOB: Really?
CHARLOTTE: Mmm.
BOB: I was afraid of that. I kept telling myself that, you know, I just wanted to be ready in case we go to war tonight.
Nervous much, Bob? It's one thing for Bob to sit and crank up the witty repartee meter to 11 in the hotel bar. It's another thing for him to tag along with her and some of her presumably younger friends.
Quote #2
BOB: Here, will you cut the tag out for me?
CHARLOTTE: Sure. You’re too tall.
BOB: Uh, anybody ever tell you you may be too small?
There's a level of intimacy in cutting the tag out of someone's shirt, just like there is in giving them a hard time about the tag in the first place or simply tucking it back under their collar for them.