Nicolas Cage credited as playing...
Ben Sanderson
- Ben Sanderson: I don't know if I started drinking 'cause my wife left me or my wife left me 'cause I started drinking, but fuck it anyway.
- Sera: So, for 500 bucks, you can do pretty much whatever you want. You can fuck my ass.
- Ben Sanderson: Oh, my God.
- Sera: You can cum on my face. Whatever you want to do. Just keep it out of my hair.
- Ben Sanderson: Okay.
- Sera: I just washed it.
- Ben Sanderson: We both know that I'm a drunk. And I know you are a hooker. I hope you understand that I am a person who is totally at ease with that. Which is not to say that I'm indifferent or I don't care, I do. It simple means that I trust and accept your judgment.
- Ben Sanderson: Are you desirable? Are you irresistible? Maybe if you drank bourbon with me, it would help. Maybe if you kissed me and I could taste the sting in your mouth it would help. If you drank bourbon with me naked. If you smelled of bourbon as you fucked me, it would help. It would increase my esteem for you. If you poured bourbon onto your naked body and said to me "drink this". If you spread your legs and you had bourbon dripping from your breasts and your pussy and said "drink here" then I could fall in love with you. Because then I would have a purpose. To clean you up and that, that would prove that I'm worth something. I'd lick you clean so that you could go away and fuck someone else.
- Sera: Don't you like me, Ben?
- Ben Sanderson: Sera... what you don't understand is - no, see, no. You can never, never ask me to stop drinking. Do you understand?
- Sera: I do. I really do.
- Ben Sanderson: I'll tell you, right now... I'm in love with you. But, be that as it may, i am not here to force my twisted soul into your life.
- Sera: Are you saying that your drinking is a way to kill yourself?
- Ben Sanderson: Or, killing myself is a way to drink?
- Terri: Maybe you shouldn't drink so much.
- Ben Sanderson: Maybe I shouldn't breathe so much Terri. HIHI!
- Sera: So why are you a drunk?
- Ben Sanderson: Why am I a drunk? Is that really what you wanna ask me?
- Sera: Yes.
- Ben Sanderson: Well, then, this is our first date, or our last. Until now I wasn't sure it was either.
- Ben Sanderson: Don't you think you'll get a little bored, living with a drunk?
- Sera: Well, that's what I want.
- Ben Sanderson: You haven't seen the worst of it. These last few days, I've been very controlled. But, I knock things over and throw up all the time. But, right now, I feel really good. You're like some sort of antidote that mixes with the liquor and keeps me in balance. But, that won't last forever.
- Ben Sanderson: I think when I'm done with this I'll have a gin and tonic.
- L.A. Bartender: Do you know what time it is? You should be drinking coffee. You're a young guy. It's none of my business, but if you could see what I see, you wouldn't be doing this to yourself.
- Ben Sanderson: I understand what you're saying. I appreciate your concern. It's not my intention to make you uncomfortable. Please, serve me today, and I'll never come in here again. If I do, you can 86 me.
- L.A. Bartender: Stop fucking with me! I can 86 you anytime I want to. Hey, I don't give a fuck what you do. That one's on the house, son.
- Sera: So, Ben with an "N"... what brings you to Las Vegas? Business convention?
- Ben Sanderson: I came here to drink myself to death.
- Sera: So, Ben with an "N" - what brings you to Las Vegas? Business convention?
- Ben Sanderson: No. I came here to - drink myself to death. Cashed in all my money, paid my AmEx card, gonna sell the car tomorrow.
- Sera: So, how long is it gonna take for you to - drink yourself to death?
- Ben Sanderson: I think about - four weeks.
- Ben Sanderson: [to a woman at the bar] What's your name?
- Terri: Terri.
- Ben Sanderson: Terri, I am going to buy you a drink.
- Terri: I'm OK, thanks.
- Ben Sanderson: Bud, please. Buy the lady a drink and another one for you. I'm Benjamin. Ben. Benny Goodman, that's me. I think you're sexy. That's right. Look at those eyes. Sexy like a kitty cat.
- [singing]
- Ben Sanderson: You turn me on, bar-rum, you turn me on, bar-rum, you're not too long, you're not too short, you're not too round, bar-rum, you're like a cat, the cat in the hat. Look at those eyes. Honest to God. You're luminescent, baby. What?
- Terri: You've been drinking all day.
- Sera: So... why are you killing yourself?
- Ben Sanderson: Interesting choice of words. I don't remember. I just know that I want to.