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Michael J. Fox in Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

Quotes

Bright Lights, Big City

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  • Ferret Man: Wanna buy a ferret?
  • Jamie Conway: No. No, thanks.
  • Ferret Man: Loose joints. Genuine Hawaiian sens. His name is Fred...
  • Jamie Conway: [voice over] You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning and, though the details are fuzzy, you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar.
  • Jamie Conway: We sort of split up.
  • Theresa: Too bad for you. She was yummy! Sort of the slinky girl-next-door look. Very ingenuous.
  • Tad Allagash: Doing a little writing, are we?
  • [reads paper in typewriter]
  • Tad Allagash: Yeah! "Dead Amanda"! I told ya, you get more nookie than you can shake a fucking stick at if you just told people your wife was dead.
  • Jamie Conway: I hit the wrong key.
  • Tad Allagash: Ready to roll? The girls are waiting.
  • Jamie Conway: Right. Where are we rolling to?
  • Tad Allagash: Into the heart of the night! Wherever there are dances to be danced, drugs to be hoovered, women to be Allagashed. It's a dirty job, Jamie, but somebody's got to do it.
  • Tad Allagash: Speaking of drugs, are you in possession?
  • Jamie Conway: Negative.
  • Tad Allagash: Not even a single line for young Tad?
  • Jamie Conway: Sorry.
  • Tad Allagash: Not even a mirror to lick?
  • [last lines]
  • Jamie Conway: You have to go slowly. You'll have to learn everything all over again.
  • Vicky: Are you sure you're all right?
  • Jamie Conway: Well, my brain is trying to find a way out of its skull - and I'm afraid of just about everything; but, I'm okay.
  • Jamie Conway: This man calls. He said he was her lawyer. Easiest thing all the way around, he said was for me to sue her for sexual abandonment. A legal term, he said.
  • Bartender at Fashion Show: Sorry, the bar is closed.
  • Jamie Conway: There's a certain shabby nobility in failing all by myself.
  • Drunken Writer: [rambling on aimlessly to himself] ... Siamese fighting fish in the water cooler... the old crew in the golden days of this magazine would have thought of it.
  • Stevie: He got blood on that column!
  • Jamie Conway: Thanks for the linguine and sympathy...
  • [first lines]
  • Bald Girl: Hey! Hey! Why so sad?
  • Jamie Conway: What?
  • Bald Girl: Why so sad?
  • Walter Tyler: So how's Clara behaving?
  • Jamie Conway: Same as usual. Like a fourth-grade tyrant.
  • Walter Tyler: I've always wanted to ask somebody in Fact - does Clara piss in the men's room or the ladies'?
  • Jamie Conway: I don't believe she pisses.
  • Tad Allagash: I, believe it or not, took this bimbo back to her place on Fifth Avenue. Did some of her off-the-boat-quality drugs. We scooped it out of these tall Ming vases - did it off each other's naked bodies. Fucking beautiful, man.
  • Drunken Writer: I started off as an office boy at the magazine - got published every so often. I used to write satirical sketches on Manhattan highlife.
  • Jamie Conway: I know, I used to read that stuff. Amazing.
  • Drunken Writer: Yeah. A lot more fun than being an editor. All I do as an editor is read a lot of undisciplined, untalented crap.
  • Jamie Conway: She's got a heart like a twelve-minute egg.
  • Tad Allagash: She's an Allagash. She has Allagash genes. She's a very attractive lady. She'll also inherit a little of the Allagash money.
  • Jamie Conway: I hear rabies shots are really painful. They put needles in your dick or something.
  • Drunken Writer: Pygmies. I'm surrounded by pygmies.
  • Tad Allagash: So much for antiseptic. Now for anaesthetic.
  • Tad Allagash: D'you know that 90 of household dust is composed of human epidermal matter?
  • Jamie Conway: That's skin to you. That's why I'm thinking about Amanda. She left her skin behind.

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