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Michael Douglas and Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction (1987)

Michael Douglas: Dan Gallagher

Fatal Attraction

Michael Douglas credited as playing...

Dan Gallagher

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Quotes13

  • Dan Gallagher: You're so sad. You know that, Alex? Lonely and very sad.
  • Alex Forrest: Don't you ever pity me, you smug bastard.
  • Dan Gallagher: I'll pity you... I'll pity you. I'll pity you because you're sick.
  • Alex Forrest: Why? Because I won't allow you to treat me like some slut you can just bang a couple of times and throw in the garbage?
  • Dan Gallagher: Look, Alex... I like you. And maybe if I wasn't with somebody else, I'd be with you. But I am.
  • Alex Forrest: Please don't justify yourself, it's pathetic. If you'd tell me to fuck off, I'd have more respect for you.
  • Dan Gallagher: All right, then. Fuck off.
  • Dan Gallagher: Why are you trying to hurt me?
  • Alex Forrest: I'm not trying to hurt you, Dan, I love you!
  • Dan Gallagher: You what?
  • Alex Forrest: I love you!
  • Dan Gallagher: You don't even know me.
  • Alex Forrest: How can you say that?
  • Alex Forrest: You're here with a strange girl being a naughty boy.
  • Dan Gallagher: I don't think having dinner with anybody's a crime.
  • Alex Forrest: Not yet.
  • Dan Gallagher: [to Jimmy] She keeps calling the apartment. Every time Beth answers the phone, she hangs up. I'm scared, Jimmy, and I don't want to lose my family.
  • Alex Forrest: I had a wonderful time last night. I'd like to see you again. Is that so terrible?
  • Dan Gallagher: No. I just don't think it's possible.
  • Alex Forrest: Have you ever done it in an elevator?
  • Dan Gallagher: Not recently, no.
  • Alex Forrest: I bet you haven't.
  • Dan Gallagher: Do you remember the girl who came to the apartment? The one I met in the Japanese restaurant?
  • Beth Gallagher: The one with the blond hair.
  • Alex Forrest: You must have to be discreet.
  • Dan Gallagher: Oh, god yeah.
  • Alex Forrest: Are you?
  • Dan Gallagher: Am I what?
  • Alex Forrest: Discreet?
  • Dan Gallagher: Yes, I'm discreet.
  • Alex Forrest: Me too.
  • Lieutenant: Well, whatever resentment she's feeling, she probably got it out of her system. And any action we take could provoke her.
  • Dan Gallagher: What if she didn't get it out of her system? What then?
  • Dan Gallagher: [to Alex] This has got to stop.
  • Dan Gallagher: [TV Version] Why don't you just cut the cake?
  • Alex Forrest: [as Dan walks into the living room] So, what can I get you? I got Scotch, I got Vodka, a nice Chablis...
  • Dan Gallagher: CUT THE SHIT, WILL YA? JUST CUT IT! I don't know what you're up to, but I'm gonna tell you, it's gonna stop right now.
  • Alex Forrest: No, it's not gonna stop. It's gonna go on and on until you face up to your responsibilities.
  • Dan Gallagher: WHAT RESPONSIBILITIES?
  • Alex Forrest: I'm pregnant. I'm gonna have our child.
  • Dan Gallagher: Alex, that's your choice, honey! It has nothing to do with me!
  • Alex Forrest: I just want to be a part of your life.
  • Dan Gallagher: Oh, this is the way you do it, huh? Showing up at my apartment?
  • Alex Forrest: What was I supposed to do? You won't answer my calls, you change your number. I mean, I'm not gonna be ignored, Dan!
  • Dan Gallagher: You don't get it. You just, you don't get it.
  • Alex Forrest: Don't you remember our weekend? Wasn't that wonderful? Why can't we just be like that again? I know you feel it, too. I mean, what are you so afraid of?
  • Dan Gallagher: [as she tries to get intimate] Hey hey hey hey. Just don't flatter yourself, Alex.
  • Alex Forrest: Go ahead, hit me. If you can't fuck me, why don't you just hit me.
  • Dan Gallagher: You're just so sad. You know that, Alex? Lonely and very sad.
  • Alex Forrest: [as he walks towards the door with her following him] Don't you ever pity me, you smug bastard.
  • Dan Gallagher: I'll pity you. I'll pity you because you're sick.
  • Alex Forrest: Why? Because I won't allow you treat me like some slut you could just bang a couple of times and throw in the garbage? I'm gonna be the Mother of your child. I want a little respect.
  • Dan Gallagher: You want respect?
  • [Softly, as he walks away]
  • Dan Gallagher: Respect.
  • Alex Forrest: What are you doing? Dan? Please don't go. I didn't mean it. Please, I'm sorry. I'll tell your wife!
  • Dan Gallagher: [as he throws her up against the wall] You tell my wife, I'll kill you.
  • Alex Forrest: [as he leaves] It only takes a phone call!
  • [Dials Dan's disconnected number]
  • Alex Forrest: Hello?
  • [No response]
  • Alex Forrest: Hello?
  • [Realizing his number was changed, Alex hangs up and then, violently, rips the phone out of the wall and throws it down to the floor]

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