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Gena Rowlands and John Adames in Gloria (1980)

John Adames: Phil Dawn

Gloria

John Adames credited as playing...

Phil Dawn

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Quotes17

  • Phil Dawn: You're my mother. You're my father. You're my mother. You're my whole family. You're even my friend, Gloria. You're my girlfriend too.
  • Phil Dawn: I'm not going with you.
  • Gloria Swenson: Hey, I got no time to play games with you, kid.
  • Phil Dawn: I am the man. I am the man. I am the man! Do you hear me? *I* am the man! I am the man! Not you! You're not the man! I am the man! I'll do anything I can. I am the man!
  • Gloria Swenson: Hey. Hey! Hey. Hey, come on, let me see. Come on. Come on, kid. You are *not* the man. You don't listen. You don't know anything. You're driving me crazy.
  • Gloria Swenson: Okay, everybody in the bathroom. Everybody in the bathroom. Everybody. Shut the door. In 20 seconds, I'm going to start shooting 'through that door. High, jerks, so get down on your stomachs.
  • Phil Dawn: Gloria, what are you doing?
  • Gloria Swenson: I'm saving your life, stupid.
  • Gloria Swenson: If I'm gonna get you out of here, I gotta have your help.
  • Phil Dawn: How can I help you?
  • Gloria Swenson: They're gonna kill us, you little jackass. I don't wanna die! I saved all my life so I could have some money. And I got it. You're too young to know what making a living is, but - I got my money, I got my apartment, I got my friends, my cat.
  • Phil Dawn: [Gloria and Phil try to check in to a hotel, but, the clerk refuses them] He don't know the score, he sees a dame like you, and a guy like me, he don't know.
  • Phil Dawn: I want to go home.
  • Gloria Swenson: Don't be stupid. You got no home. You got me.
  • Gloria Swenson: I'm going to go in the bathroom now. Don't answer that telephone. And don't go near the windows. Or the door. If you hear anything - just come on in the bathroom and get me. Knock on the door. Are you all right?
  • Phil Dawn: Yeah, I'm all right. Go to the toilet.
  • Phil Dawn: Anyway, you're not Spanish like me. You're not my mother, youre not my father, you're not anyone to me. You're not enough for me. Okay, Gloria? So, I'm gonna find a family. some new friends, and a girl friend, too.
  • Phil Dawn: Youre a nice girl, Gloria, but you're not for me.
  • Phil Dawn: Bye, chiquita. Bye, little sucker. Bye, little insect. Bye, little fly. Bye, little tiny insect. Bye, sucker.
  • Gloria Swenson: I mean, I walk into a room full of hoods. A guy pulls a gun on me and you side with him.
  • Phil Dawn: You shot my friend's father.
  • Gloria Swenson: I'll kill anybody thats trying to kill me.
  • Gloria Swenson: So, where's your loyalty?
  • Phil Dawn: Where's my what?
  • Phil Dawn: You want to be my mother? You could be my mother. I don't have any mother. No more mother. So you could be my mother. Why would you want to be my mother?
  • Phil Dawn: You can't just keep on shooting everybody that goes knocking on your door.
  • Gloria Swenson: You can't beat the system.
  • Phil Dawn: What's the system?
  • Gloria Swenson: System? I don't know.
  • Phil Dawn: Then how do you know you can't beat it?
  • Gloria Swenson: Well, not too many people have.
  • Phil Dawn: Then have some people did?
  • Gloria Swenson: Yeah, I think so. I don't know.
  • Phil Dawn: May I touch yours?
  • Gloria Swenson: May you touch my what?
  • Phil Dawn: Your hair.
  • Phil Dawn: I'm going home now.
  • Gloria Swenson: No, you're not going home.
  • Phil Dawn: I have to.
  • Gloria Swenson: What are you going to find in there, dead bodies?

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