Bob Dylan credited as playing...
Jack Fate
- Jack Fate: I was always a singer and maybe no more then that. Sometimes it's not enough to know the meaning of things, sometimes we have to know what things don't mean as well. Like what does it mean to not know what the person you love is capable of? Things fall apart, especially all the neat order of rules and laws. The way we look at the world is the way we really are. See it from a fair garden and everything looks cheerful. Climb to a higher plateau and you'll see plunder and murder. Truth and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. I stopped trying to figure everything out a long time ago.
- Jack Fate: All of us in some way are trying to kill time. When it's all said and done, time ends up killing us.
- Jack Fate: By the way, which side of the political fence are you on?
- Desk Clerk: I do not belong to any political party, sir. I guess you could call me... a feminist
- Jack Fate: Some of us pursue perfection and virtue and if we're lucky, we catch up to it. But happiness can't be pursued. It either comes to your or it don't. You can always say, "if only this and if only that", but "if only" is a state of mind that we get into when we feel deprived.
- Animal Wrangler: If I see a crack in the sidewalk, it's more beautiful to me than any human being. A crack in the mud at the bottom of a sun dried lake, I count them more beautiful than any human being. You know what I mean?
- Jack Fate: I know what you mean. Kinda like a curse, isn't it? Bein' born.
- Animal Wrangler: You got that right. Yeah, cause we live in fear. Cause we know we're gonna die. Animals don't know they're gonna die. They got no fear. They live. Content. In the moment. It holds us back. Knowledge of death. I say, amazing grace, in deed.
- Jack Fate: Well, I got to get back to the stage.
- Oscar Vogel: The stage - ah, yes - the stage. The whole world is a stage.
- Uncle Sweetheart: They want you to sing that song "Revolution". You know, that Beatles song. The slow version - the in-and-out one.
- Jack Fate: "Revolution." What else do they want me to play?
- Uncle Sweetheart: I got the playlist right here. Let's see, where's my glasses? Okay, here we go: "Revolution", "Street Fightin' Man", "Won' t Get Fooled Again", "Cellblock #9", "Ohio", "Eve of Destruction", "Kick out the Jams." You can do all those.
- Jack Fate: I don't know, Sweetheart. Sounds like a lot of songs.
- Uncle Sweetheart: This is gonna be a patriotic rhapsody, Jack. Here's the deal. You'll be working for the people. The peasants. The children. Imagine yourself being reincarnated in the civil war in Babylon.
- Jack Fate: Civil war in Babylon?
- Uncle Sweetheart: Come on son, snap out of it! You gotta stand up on your tiptoes to see the future.
- Jack Fate: In my father's world, you do not take what is his. Not his gold. Not his silver. Not his woman. I thought I was doin' it for my mother. I thought I was doin' it for my country. Ultimately, I knew, I was doin' it for me. In the end, it's the strongest arm that stretches the bow.
- Uncle Sweetheart: Hey, you're all skin and bones.
- Jack Fate: Aren't we all. Anyway, I don't have to throw my weight around. Look at you. You must have put on a few pounds.
- Uncle Sweetheart: Eatin' from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
- Jack Fate: He sacrificed everything he ever wanted to reach his destiny, to rule this empire with an iron fist. From the cathouses and gambling joints he rose to the top rung of civilization, President of this god-forsaken nation.
- Uncle Sweetheart: Let me show you this place. I own a piece of it.
- Jack Fate: Which piece?
- Uncle Sweetheart: It changes every day.
- Desk Clerk: Will you be in need of a woman sir?
- Jack Fate: What kind of woman?
- Desk Clerk: I got all kinds. Slave women. Immigrant women. Black women. White women. Young women. Old women. Rich, poor, middle class. Free women. Western women. Northern women. Southern women. Intellectuals. Radical women. Modern. They run the gamut. Which kind would you like.
- Jack Fate: No, I'm just tired. Can you give me a room?
- Uncle Sweetheart: Nobody could be like you, and a great many have tried. I just know this is gonna come off.
- Jack Fate: I need some boys who can play.
- Uncle Sweetheart: I got some musicians right here. Feast your eyes on: Simple Twist Of Fate. The best and only Jack Fate cover band in the world.
- Uncle Sweetheart: Ladies and gentlemen, We have a special treat for you this evening. Not only do we possess the Twist Of Fate, we possess the Cha-Cha, the Bugaboo, and the Watusi Of Fate: Jack Fate!
- Jack Fate: [singing] Crash on the levee, Water's gonna overflow, Swamp's gonna rise, No boat is gonna row, Head on down, To Williams Point, You can bust your feet, You can rock this joint, But, hey, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now? You'll have to find yourself, Another best friend, somehow...