Butterfly (1981)
Stacy Keach: Jess Tyler
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Quotes
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Kady Tyler : That feels so good, Jess. Good, good hands... What's wrong?
Jess Tyler : It ain't right.
Kady Tyler : Feels good to me. Does it to you?
Jess Tyler : It just ain't right.
Kady Tyler : It's right if it's good.
Jess Tyler : You're my daughter, Kady.
Kady Tyler : I'm a woman, too.
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Jess Tyler : [hot day, and now a barefoot, bare-legged blond sits waiting on his porch] Miss?
Kady Tyler : Hello.
Jess Tyler : Something you want?
Kady Tyler : [appraising him] How can I tell if I don't know what you got?
Jess Tyler : [takes off his hat, regarding her wearily] Maybe you're making a mistake.
[comes up the steps]
Jess Tyler : Maybe you're looking for somebody else's place. Not mine.
[goes inside]
Kady Tyler : I'm looking for you.
Jess Tyler : How do you know?
[comes out again with milk pail]
Jess Tyler : You ain't seen me before.
Kady Tyler : You're Jess Tyler.
Jess Tyler : Who are you?
Kady Tyler : Just somebody you might like to know.
Jess Tyler : I don't like people making fun.
[leaves to milk cow]
Kady Tyler : Maybe I'm not.
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Jess Tyler : [milking cow, and Kade is about to drink some fresh produce] That ain't gonna be cold.
Kady Tyler : I like it warm, with foam on top of it.
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Kady Tyler : I couldn't take it anymore... listening to the laughs and the whispers... as I walked down the street with my stomach out, and... and I hear people say "that's Belle's daughter, all right, that's... one kid who listened good to her parent." Janey's taking care of the baby. She really knows how. But I had to get away.
[all the time washing dishes]
Jess Tyler : You don't have to do that.
Kady Tyler : Oh, I don't mind, I want to. I like doing things for a man.
Jess Tyler : Then you'll make somebody a good wife.
Kady Tyler : Maybe. But I ain't wanna get married... right now.
Jess Tyler : What are you planning on doing?
Kady Tyler : [looks at him full-on] Keep you from being lonely.
[he eyes her warily]
Kady Tyler : I come to stay with you.
Jess Tyler : [busying himself with cutlery] You can't do that, Kade. Uh-uh, I'm sorry, you just can't.
Kady Tyler : [shakes head in dismay] Don't make me go.
Jess Tyler : Look... get your stuff together, and... I'll run you wherever you wanna go. But... you just can't stay here. Please?
Kady Tyler : [sobbing] Jess, I'm your daughter... and I got nowhere to go.
[he comforts her, hugging her against him]
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Kady Tyler : [brought home by car that just dropped her off] Morning, Jess.
Jess Tyler : [demanding] Who was that?
Kady Tyler : A friend.
Jess Tyler : [yelling] Who was he?
Kady Tyler : [obviously the worse for wear] Ooh, don't yell!
Jess Tyler : Did you lay up with him last night?
Kady Tyler : If I did, would you get your shotgun... and make him marry me?
Jess Tyler : Where was you last night?
[she dunks her head in the trough, no answer]
Jess Tyler : Kade!
Kady Tyler : [streaming wet hair] I met a girl, and... we got to be friends. I stayed with her when it got too dark.
Jess Tyler : What was her name?
Kady Tyler : I forgot.
Jess Tyler : That was no girl who brought you home.
Kady Tyler : No.
Jess Tyler : Who was it then?
Kady Tyler : [filling a pail with water] Her brother.
[walks away carrying it]
Jess Tyler : [following her into the house] What did you do last night?
Kady Tyler : Enjoyed ourselves. But I don't think you'd like that.
[goes towards her room, about to drop the sheet she had hung over the entrance]
Kady Tyler : Excuse me, Jess.
Jess Tyler : What you gonna do?
Kady Tyler : Woman's business.
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Jess Tyler : [in bar] Ready to go?
Kady Tyler : Have another drink, Jess. I'm gonna be off.
Jess Tyler : Where are you going?
Kady Tyler : Billy Roy's got a brand-new convertible car, and he's gonna take me for a ride.
Jess Tyler : Why?
Kady Tyler : Because sometimes... people need to be made to feel good.
Jess Tyler : [shakes his head] Kade, come...
[but she's going to the two men waiting for her, and he grabs her by the shoulder]
Jess Tyler : Now, Kade!
Billy Roy : Listen, Pa, take it easy, we don't wanna have no trouble.
Jess Tyler : But I am her daddy, and she is staying here with me.
Billy Roy : Not like she wants to stay, old man, but right now, she wants to go for a ride, so that's what we're gonna do. Sit down and have a glass of prune juice, loosen up.
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Jess Tyler : What are you planning on doing?
Kady Tyler : Keep you from being lonely.
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Jess Tyler : I've been nothing to her for ten years. It's hard being something after so long a time.
Rev. Rivers : You can only be a daddy to her, Jess. Nothing more.