200 Cigarettes (1999) - Quotes

New Year's Eve Dating Dilemma

Taglines: It's 11:59 on New Year's Eve. Do you know where your date is?

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Hostility and Self-Reflection in a Cab

Disco Cabbie: [Ellie is riding with Disco Cabbie complaining about finding Kevin with Lucy] Uh, I'm sensing a lot of hostility coming from the back seat.

Ellie: Oh, really? That's very astute.

Disco Cabbie: Well, that's not good for me, man. That kind of energy damages the plush interior of my cab, right? And you're blowing a $5.00 high, mama. You need to find yourself a man who's secure enough to appreciate you for the superior woman that you are. I like a strong woman.

Ellie: Oh... yeah. Mm-hmm.

Disco Cabbie: And you are a strong woman. If I was you, I would pull over with me and celebrate our strength together. What do you think about that, baby?

Ellie: This corner's great. This corner's fantastic for me.

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Perceptions of Desperation and Confidence

Hillary: I don't want to look desperate.

Monica: Desperate? You could stand there naked with a mattress strapped to your back and still look like a vestal virgin.

Hillary: Do you think that would work?

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Attraction and Misunderstandings Among Friends

Lucy: In the five years we've known each other, have you once even ever considered having sex with me? Apart from tonight. You don't think I'm attracted to you.

Kevin: I don't think you're attracted to half the men you sleep with.

Lucy: You think I'm a slut!

Kevin: What? No.

Lucy: Yeah, you think I'm a big slut.

Kevin: I don't think you're a slut. A skanky little ho maybe, but never a slut.

Lucy: The truth is, you're afraid.

Kevin: What? I'm afraid. I'm, yeah, OK, you... I feel so naked right now. I'm totally afraid.

Lucy: It is so obvious.

Kevin: And so ridiculous.

Lucy: Prove it.

Kevin: I don't have to prove anything.

Lucy: I dare you. Kevin, I dare you to fuck me.

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Honest Reflections on Intimacy

Eric: Look, just tell me one thing. I'm not a vain person. Was the sex any good at all?

Cheryl: No. I'm sorry. It was bad.

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A New Year's Eve Conversation on Despair

Kevin: Look, I'm just gonna go home and kill myself. You want to share a cab?

Lucy: So I can pass out and wake up alone on New Year's Day?

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A Birthday Surprise Unfolds Between Friends

Kevin: What's this?

Lucy: It's your birthday present, fuckhead. Open it.

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Finding Acceptance in Relationships

Lucy: You need to find somebody that likes you the way you are.

Kevin: And who would possibly like me the way I am?

Lucy: I have no idea.

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Complications of Casual Relationships

Jack: Look, what happened between us last night is like this ongoing problem with me. It happens all the time: I meet someone, we go home together, but then the next day it's...

Cindy: What? Next day what?

Jack: Well, they tell me that suddenly they've developed these feelings for me.

Cindy: What are you saying, that every woman you go home with falls in love with you or something?

Jack: Yes! It's like a curse! It never ends!

Cindy: A woman falls in love with you and you think that's a curse?

Jack: You have no idea!

Cindy: No! I don't! Because I think you're lucky! I mean, there are some people who wait their entire lives for somebody to tell them they feel that way about them, and you, you just throw it away like it's nothing, like it's a minor inconvenience! Well let me tell you something, Jack, you are cursed - just not the way you think you are.

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The Baddest in Show Business

Disco Cabbie: [[James Brown] If you remember anything that I tell you, remember this: ] is the baddest motherfucker in show business.

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Perceptions of Beauty and Gender Identity

Disco Cabbie: One of the ugliest bitches I've ever seen in my life rolled up, and I'm not one to call women ugly, but I think this woman was, because she had a penis.

New Year's Eve Revelry and Chaos

Disco Cabbie: Everybody's having fun out here. They drinking, they fighting, they pissing on the streets. It's New Year's Eve. They loving the ladies.

Fashion and Desire in the Bartender's Words

Bartender: Those clothes and my clothes would look good on my floor.

Clarifying Sexual Orientation in Social Situations

Bartender: And I'm not gay, okay? I get that all the time. No, I'm not gay.

Breakfast Preferences and Humor

Bartender: So, how do you like your eggs done in the morning, scrambled or fertilized?

The Complexity of Hosting Parties

Monica: Throwing a party it's like... it's like an invitation for abuse. It's like the last desperate act of someone who hasn't had a lasting relationship since Junior High.

Compromises in Relationships and Their Consequences

Kevin: [[Joni Mitchell] You let somebody move in with you, you make all these little compromises to smooth things along, and the next thing you know, you're on some macrobiotic diet and you're listening to ].

Cigarettes as Barriers to Connection

Kevin: Did you know that cigarettes are a shield against meaningful interaction with people?

Unresolved Feelings in a Troubled Relationship

Eric: You bring me over here, and you tell me I'm the worst lover you ever had. And now you tell me it can't be helped.

Reflection on Narcissism in Relationships

Ellie: I've dated enough narcissistically neurotic men to know that you are all just a pack of roving babies in search of a giant teat from which to suck the lifeblood out of me until I am a hollow shell.