Quote #14

'[Steve McQueen, in The Great Escape] jumps on a motorbike, took off,and whoom, in 15 minutes he's in the borders of Switzerland. This is from Poland!... And if you don't know the geography, it goes Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Venezuela, Africa, Beyrouth, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and then Switzerland!'

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