Vision Quest (1985)

J.C. Quinn: Elmo

Quotes 

• Louden Swain : You never took a night off to see me wrestle before. They'll dock you for that.

  Elmo : Hey, kid - money ain't everything.

  Louden Swain : It's not that big a deal, Elmo. I mean, it's six lousy minutes on the mat, if that.

  Elmo : You ever hear of Pele?

  Louden Swain : Yeah, he's a, a soccer player.

  Elmo : A very famous soccer player.

  [pause] 

  Elmo : I was in the room here one day... watchin' the Mexican channel on TV. I don't know nothin' about Pele. I'm watchin' what this guy can do with a ball and his feet. Next thing I know, he jumps in the air and flips into a somersault and kicks the ball in - upside down and backwards... the goddamn goalie never knew what the fuck hit him. Pele gets excited and he rips off his jersey and starts running around the stadium waving it around his head. Everybody's screaming in Spanish. I'm here, sitting alone in my room, and I start crying.

  [pause] 

  Elmo : That's right, I start crying. Because another human being, a species that I happen to belong to, could kick a ball, and lift himself, and the rest of us sad-assed human beings, up to a better place to be, if only for a minute... let me tell ya, kid - it was pretty goddamned glorious. It ain't the six minutes... it's what happens in that six minutes.

• Elmo : [looks at Louden's book]  What the fuck is this?

  Louden Swain : What? You don't recognize it?

  Elmo : Wait a minute! This is coos!

  Louden Swain : Yeah, I'm thinking very seriously of becoming a gynecologist

  Elmo : A coos doctor in outer space? Man, you're flippin' out!

• Elmo : What the fuck is this?

  Louden Swain : You mean you don't recognize it?

  Elmo : Wait a minute. This is cooze.

  Louden Swain : Yeah. I'm thinking very seriously of becoming a gynecologist.

  Elmo : A cooze doctor in outer space? Man, you're flippin' out!

  Elmo : I want to be able to look inside women, find the power that they have over me.

• Louden Swain : Hey, Elmo.

  Elmo : Yeah?

  Louden Swain : What do you know about the clitoris?

  Elmo : Well, I don't know what it looks like exactly, but I kind of know where it's at... sort of.