About Last Night... (1986) - Quotes

The Challenge of Love and Intimacy

Taglines: Making love was easy...being in love difficult.

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Themes of Love and Friendship Explored

Taglines: It's about men, women, choices, friendship, love, last night...

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A Tense Exchange Over Last Call

Joan: Give me a gin and tonic.

Mother Malone: Last call was ten minutes ago...

Joan: Give me a gin and tonic or I will kill you.

Mother Malone: Just one.

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Curiosity About Virginity and Sex Among Kids

Joan: And the Virgin Mary descended upon...

Kid #1: What's a virgin?

Joan: A virgin is someone who's never had sex.

Kid #2: What's sex?

Joan: Sex is something men and women do to make a baby.

Kid #3: Are you a virgin?

Joan: No.

Kid #3: Do you have a baby?

Joan: No. People who don't want babies also have sex.

Kid #3: What for?

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A Provocative Exchange Between Friends

Bernie: You know something Joan, if you didn't have a pussy there'd be a bounty on your head.

Joan: And you are a schizophrenic, psychopathic, maladjusted social misfit who is clearly in the middle of a very deep homosexual panic.

Bernie: So you want to dance or what?

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Trust and Sacrifice in Relationships

Danny: Hey, know one thing - I never screwed around on you.

Debbie: Oh, well, let's just give the boy a medal! I didn't realize it was such a sacrifice.

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Reflections on Expectations and Reality

Danny: [about their ended relationship] I think I thought it was going to be different than it...

Debbie: Than what it was really like? Me, too. Maybe we were just - too naive.

Danny: Yeah, maybe. Maybe we knew too much.

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Who Said It First?

Bernie: [after Danny tells him that he told Debbie he loves her; pauses] Ooohhhh! Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan! Who said it first?

Danny: I did.

Bernie: [pauses] Ooohhhh! Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan! Was it before you came, or after?

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Misleading First Impressions in Relationships

Bernie: Are you getting serious? Well, she seemed like a hell of a girl. From what little I saw of her. Not too this. Not too that. Very kind of, um, what?... Ah, what the fuck, I only saw her for a minute. First impressions of this kind can often be misleading. Does she give head?

Danny: What?

Bernie: [Silence] To you, I'm saying. Does she give head to you? Forget it.

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Exploring Hidden Emotions in Relationships

Joan: [about a workshop on relationships] Men and women - sharing, working out their hate.

Debbie: I'm sick of hating. I mean, God, Joan. I don't think I have any hate left.

Joan: Yes you do - you just don't know it.

Workplace Challenges and Perceptions of Behavior

Joan: Tomorrow you know, they're going to come at me like marauding beasts bent on destruction.

Debbie: Stop it.

Joan: Deborah, you work in advertising... a civilized business. I on the other hand work with monsters.

Debbie: You're talking about 5 year olds!

Joan: Yes, and my job is to break their spirit. That's what kindergarten is all about. The Germans invented it Deborah, think about that.

Perceptions of Attractiveness and Confidence

Bernie: [to Danny] You know what your problem is? Your face. Come on, you're too good-looking. Girls go out with you and get nervous. They feel dumpy, they don't want to compete. They want a guy like... like me. A guy who'll make them look good. A basic Neanderthal type. The swarthy type. A man's man.

Trust Issues in Relationships

Joan: Look, if he forgets to call one day, no big deal; two days, it's an oversight. Honey, he hasn't called you in three days; he's sleeping with somebody else.

The Complexity of Love and Regret

Debbie: Bullshit. You don't know what love is. You've gotten everything you have always wanted and now you're feeling sorry for yourself because there's something you want and you can't have it. But you had it! I gave you love. But you asked me to leave and I left.