Wes Bentley credited as playing...
Ricky Fitts
- Ricky Fitts: It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. Right? And this bag was just dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.
- Catering Boss: I'm not paying you to do... whatever it is you're doing out here.
- Ricky Fitts: Fine. So don't pay me.
- Catering Boss: Excuse me?
- Ricky Fitts: I quit. So you don't have to pay me. Now leave me alone.
- Catering Boss: ...asshole.
- Lester Burnham: [stunned] I think you just became my personal hero!
- Angela Hayes: Yeah? Well, at least I'm not ugly!
- Ricky Fitts: Yes, you are. And you're boring, and you're totally ordinary, and you know it.
- Colonel Frank Fitts: Where did you get that?
- Ricky Fitts: From my job.
- Colonel Frank Fitts: Don't lie to me. Now, I saw you with him.
- Ricky Fitts: You were watching me?
- Colonel Frank Fitts: What did he make you do?
- Ricky Fitts: Oh, Dad, you don't really think that me and Mr. Burnham were...
- Colonel Frank Fitts: Don't you laugh at me. Now, I will not sit back and watch my only son become a cock-sucker!
- Ricky Fitts: Jesus, what is it with you?
- Colonel Frank Fitts: I swear to God, I will throw you out of the house and never look at you again!
- Ricky Fitts: You mean that?
- Colonel Frank Fitts: You're damn straight I do. I'd rather you were dead than be a fuckin' faggot.
- Ricky Fitts: You're right. I suck dick for money.
- Colonel Frank Fitts: Boy, don't start.
- Ricky Fitts: Two thousand dollars - I'm that good.
- Colonel Frank Fitts: Get out!
- Ricky Fitts: And you should see me fuck. I'm the best piece of ass in three States.
- Colonel Frank Fitts: Get out. I don't ever want to see you again!
- Ricky Fitts: What a sad old man you are.
- Ricky Fitts: It's like God is looking right at you, just for a second, and if you're careful... you can look right back.
- Jane Burnham: And what do you see?
- Ricky Fitts: Beauty.
- Lester Burnham: When I was your age, I flipped burgers all summer just to be able to buy an eight-track.
- Ricky Fitts: That sucks.
- Lester Burnham: No, actually it was great. All I did was party and get laid. I had my whole life ahead of me.
- Ricky Fitts: My dad thinks I pay for all this with catering jobs. Never underestimate the power of denial.
- Jane Burnham: Are you scared?
- Ricky Fitts: I don't get scared.
- Jane Burnham: My parents will try to find me.
- Ricky Fitts: Mine won't.
- Ricky Fitts: [after Ricky's dad beats him up] Mom, I'm leaving.
- Barbara Fitts: Okay. Wear a raincoat.
- Jane Burnham: [turning the camera on Ricky] Don't you feel naked?
- Ricky Fitts: [looking down, grinning] I am naked.
- Ricky Fitts: Anything new in the world, Dad?
- Colonel Frank Fitts: This country is going straight to hell!
- [first lines]
- Jane Burnham: I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts whenever I bring a girlfriend home from school. What a lame-o. Someone really should just put him out of his misery.
- Ricky Fitts: Want me to kill him for you?
- Jane Burnham: Yeah. Would you?
- Ricky Fitts: Forgive me, sir, for speaking so bluntly but those fags make me want to puke my fucking guts out.
- Colonel Frank Fitts: [cautiously, after a long pause] Well, me too son. Yeah, me too.
- Colonel Frank Fitts: You need structure. Yeah? You need discipline.
- Ricky Fitts: Yes, sir. Thank you for trying to teach me. Don't give up on me, Dad.