Choose Me (1984)

Keith Carradine: Mickey

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Quotes 

• Eve : I thought I was through getting involved with men who were trouble. Falling in love on a look.

  Song : Away, away, away.

  Eve : I can't look at you.

  Mickey : You have perfection about you.

  Song : Feels so nice.

  Eve : Oh, brother. Perfection. Me.

  Song : What delight!

  Mickey : Your eyes have music. Your heart's the best part of your body. And when you move, every man, woman and child is forced to watch.

• [last lines] 

  Woman on Bus : Marriage is a very sacred thing.

  Eve : Yeah. So I've heard. Marriage is a sacred thing. Isn't it?

  Mickey : In a beautiful but sordid way.

  Eve : I don't know why I ask you anything. You're a lunatic.

  Mickey : That's why you chose me.

• Pearl Antoine : [reciting her own poetry]  No matter who I'm with, / They want to know if I'm still sleeping with you. / I say that you sleep while I die a little. / But I'm not afraid of death. / At least you get laid in your coffin.

  [pause] 

  Pearl Antoine : You weren't even listening.

  Mickey : You want to get laid.

  Pearl Antoine : It was just a poem.

  Mickey : Just a thought.

• Pearl Antoine : God, you love to stare at women.

  Mickey : Old habit.

• Nancy : Mickey. Mickey. You can't go around asking every woman you kiss to marry you.

  Mickey : Why not?

  Nancy : Why not...

  Mickey : I only kiss women I'd marry.

• Mickey : [holding Zack at gunpoint]  This guy's a menace.

  Zack : I'd rather hear the gun go off than listen to this shit.

• Pearl Antoine : Yeah, that's what I need, a good job. You wanna know what my favorite job would be, of all time? To be the radio talk lady, Dr Nancy Love. Ever listen to her?

  Mickey : I don't listen to radio talk.

  Pearl Antoine : Well, you should, because she's real smart. I mean, just think, having a job where you talk on the phone all day, and get paid for it. Women trust her, men fantasize about her. What a life! I hear she's tall and blond.

• [They are discussing Nancy herself, but Mickey does not know this] 

  Nancy : Her? Extremely smart. She helps a great deal of people.

  Mickey : Good.

  Nancy : And when there's a price involved, she can help others but - not herself. She gives advice to the lovelorn every day but she's never been in love herself. Or so I've heard.

  Mickey : Rough.

  Nancy : Some people worship her. But can you imagine how hard that must be to live with? Knowing than anything you ever say to anyone will count heavily, be acted upon whether you're right or wrong, I mean there's a tremendous responsibility in that, don't you think? She'd have to - she'd have to live a - a life of secrecy to avoid that kind of pressure, and even then she'd have to be careful of listening to herself, you know? And she must - wonder about - her own life experiences, she must have - difficulty touching life because she gives so much of herself to others, she spends - so much of her time absorbing others.

  Mickey : People really listen to that shit?

  Nancy : Oh yes, they do, believe me. I've heard her show before.