Annette BeningQuotes

Laser: I don't think you guys should break up.

Nic: No? Why's that?

Laser: I think you're too old.

Nic: [wryly] Thanks, Laser.

Paul: Just making an observation.

Nic: Yeah? Well I need your observations like I need a dick in my ass!

Nic: Maybe we should just sit him down and ask him already.

Jules: What? "Are you and Clay fucking?

Nic: Exploring" is a better word.

President Andrew Shepherd: You're attracted to me, but the idea of physical intimacy is uncomfortable because you only know me as the President. But it's not always going to be that way, and the reason I know that is there was a moment last night when you were with ME, not the President. And I know what a big step that was for you. So, Sydney, I'm in no rush. Here's my plan. We're going to slow down, and when you're comfortable, that's when it's going to happen.

President Andrew Shepherd: Perhaps I didn't properly explain the fundamentals of the slowdown plan.

Sydney Ellen Wade: [feeling the bed] No, you explained it great.

Sydney Ellen Wade: How do you have patience for people who claim they love America, but clearly can't stand Americans?

Myra Langtry: My God, it's your mother. It's Lilly.

Roy Dillon: What?

Myra Langtry: Sure it is. That's why you act so funny around each other.

Roy Dillon: What's that?

Myra Langtry: Oh, don't act so god-damned innocent! You and your own mother? Ugh! You like to go back where you been, huh?

Roy Dillon: Watch your mouth.

Myra Langtry: Yeah, I'm wise to you! I should have seen it before, you rotten son of a bitch. How is it, huh? How do you like it-

Roy Dillon: Do I get any say in this?

Myra Langtry: No! Because...

Roy Dillon: That's what I say. What I say is no. We don't do partners.

Myra Langtry: What is it? What's goin on? Why don't you wanna team up?

Roy Dillon: The best reason I can think of is that you scare the hell out of me. I have seen women like you before, baby. You're double-tough and you are sharp as a razor, and you get what you want or else; but you don't make it work forever. Sooner or later the lightning hits, and I'm not gonna be around when it hits you.

Roy Dillon: Maybe I like it where I am.

Myra Langtry: Well, maybe I don't! I had ten good years with Cole, and I want them back! I gotta have a partner! I looked and I looked and believe me, brother, I kissed a lot of fucking frogs, and you're my prince!

Roy Dillon: You talk the lingo. What's your pitch?

Myra Langtry: The long end, big con.

Roy Dillon: Nobody does that single-o.

Myra Langtry: I was teamed ten years with the best in the business, Cole Langley.

Roy Dillon: I've heard the name.

Myra Langtry: It was beautiful! And getting better all the time.

Roy Dillon: Is that right?

Myra Langtry: It is, Roy. It's where you should be. What do you bring in, $300, $400 a week? We used money like that for tips!

Myra Langtry: I'm Roy's friend.

Lilly Dillon: Yes. I imagine you're lots of people's friend.

Myra Langtry: [taking a good look at Lilly] Oh, of course, now that I see you in the light, you're plenty old enough to be Roy's mother.

Lilly Dillon: Aren't we all?

Roy Dillon: Play nice. Don't fight.

Roy Dillon: It's great to get away, isn't it? Take some time off. Next week, I'll be back to work.

Myra Langtry: You already went back to work.

Roy Dillon: What?

Myra Langtry: I watched you, working the tat on those sailor boys.

Roy Dillon: Working the what?

Myra Langtry: Oh, come on, Roy, the tat. What you do for a living.

Roy Dillon: I'm a salesman.

Myra Langtry: You're on the grift, same as me.

Roy Dillon: Myra, I'm not following you.

Myra Langtry: Roy, you're a short-con operator... and a good one, I think. Don't talk to me like I'm another square!

Lester Burnham: [''Driving to a high school basketball game to watch Jane's dance team performance''] Well what makes you so sure she wants us to be there? Did she ask us to come?

Carolyn Burnham: Of course not. She doesn't want us to know how important this is to her. But she's been practicing her steps for weeks.

Lester Burnham: [[w:James Bond|the James Bond; [w:Marathon (media)|marathon; [w:TNT (American TV network)|on TNT] Well, I'll bet money she's going to resent it, and I'm missing ] ] ].

Carolyn Burnham: Lester, this is important. Now, I'm sensing a real distance growing between you and Jane.

Lester Burnham: Growing?" She hates me.

Carolyn Burnham: She's just willful.

Lester Burnham: She hates you too.

Carolyn Burnham: [''Repeated line, in self-assuring confidence''; ''Later becomes hysterically upset and profusively self-blaming''] I will sell this house today.

Carolyn Burnham: [''To Jane after halftime basketball performance''] Honey, I'm so proud of you. I watched you very closely! You didn't screw up once!

Dorothea: [Treats bruises on Jamie's face] So what was the fight about?

Jamie: Clitoral stimulation.

Abbie: I gave him beer, and then I taught him how to verbally seduce women. Then we drove drunk, but I stopped that, and then he kissed Trish, and then we walked home.

Dorothea: Ah.

Abbie: You're not mad? You're mad.

Dorothea: You get to see him out in the world, as a person. I never will.

Abbie: [pulls a photo of Jamie from a stack of Polaroids] Just... there.

Dorothea: What is that?

Abbie: [[w:The Raincoats|The Raincoats] It's ].

Dorothea: Can't things just be pretty?

Jamie: Pretty music is used to hide how unfair and corrupt society is.

Dorothea: Ah, okay so... they're not very good, and they know that, right?

Abbie: Yeah, it's like they've got this feeling, and they don't have any skill, and they don't want skill, because it's really interesting what happens when your passion is bigger than the tools you have to deal with it. It creates this energy that's raw. Isn't it great?