Quotes

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Jake Scully: What a fool I am. Sam Bouchard: C'mon, Jake, you're too hard on yourself. These guys, they can't get a job, they put an ad in the trades, they call themselves teachers. What do they teach us? How to be more fucked up than we already are!

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Jake Scully: [after discovering his girlfriend's infidelity] Christ, I keep seeing it: Carol lying there. Her face was glowing. Sam Bouchard: Her face was glowing? Jake Scully: Yeah. Sam Bouchard: How do you do that? How do you get a girl's face to glow? I got sixteen years of good humping, not once did I even get a glimmer, let alone a fucking glow! Glowing?

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Theatre Director: What have you been doing lately? Jake Scully: Well, I just started a low-budget independent horror film, Vampire's Kiss. I play the vampire. Theatre Director: Vampire's Kiss? It sounds interesting. Jake Scully: Before that I did Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew. Theatre Director: Sounds interesting. Anything else? Jake Scully: You mean anything good?

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Frank: Rubin fired you. Jake Scully: What? Frank: You know, fired. Like, you don't have a job. He gave me some bull shit about "artistic differences." Now, what the hell happened? Jake Scully: Nothing. How can he do that? Frank: They're doing it right now, Jake. Jake Scully: Well, can't we do something? Maybe I should talk to Rubin? Frank: No, you better forget it. They've already hired another guy. Jake Scully: How do you know? Frank: He's my client.

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Det. Jim McLean: Scully, I got a real problem with you. Jake Scully: What do you mean? Det. Jim McLean: I mean, you're my only witness to this murder, and you're a peeper. In my book, that's a pervert and a sex offender. Jake Scully: What do you mean, a sex offender? Det. Jim McLean: Save it! I ask the questions.

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Jake Scully: I like to watch. Holly Body: Makes you hot, doesn't it? Jake Scully: Yeah. Holly Body: Makes me hot too. Why don't you come over here and I'll show you how hot?

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Jake Scully: [to Holly after shooting a scene together in an adult film] You were great out there. I'll buy you a drink. Holly Body: A drink? I don't even know you.

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Jake Scully: You're fantastic. Really. Sensational. And I'll tell you something else. You've got a terrific... Holly Body: Body. Jake Scully: Smile. Holly Body: Smile?

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Jake Scully: I'm not a film producer or a rich kid. Holly Body: No, you're a jerk!

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Jake Scully: The truth is a woman was murdered. Jake Scully: Holly, it's not funny a woman was murdered! Look, you and I were set up by a murderer! He wanted to be sure that I witnessed the murder, that's why he hired you to do your routine. He wanted to make sure that I was watching and that I would keep watching. Holly are you listening to me? Holly Body: Yes. I don't understand what you said. Jake Scully: WELL LISTEN HE'S A MURDERER, THE MAN WHO HIRED YOU IS A MURDERER.

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Jake Scully: Do you understand? Holly Body: Yes, I understand. I understand you're sick and you're a liar and you need professional help, and I do not like being yelled at. Jake Scully: I'm sorry. Holly Body: I should have known the minute you told me I had a terrific smile, no real porn producer would tell me that in a million years. Jake Scully: Holly, just come with me to the police. Holly Body: The police? Are you crazy? You listen to me, you weirdo. I'm gonna leave now and don't try to follow me home because I have friends who will break your legs!