About Last Night (1986)

Demi Moore: Debbie

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• Debbie : Bullshit. You don't know what love is. You've gotten everything you have always wanted and now you're feeling sorry for yourself because there's something you want and you can't have it. But you had it! I gave you love. But you asked me to leave and I left.

• Joan : So, did you have a nice evening?

  Debbie : Yes. And I crawled away in shame.

  Joan : Oh, aren't we a couple of sluts?

  [Both giggle] 

  Debbie : I can't believe I slept with him on the first date!

  Joan : It wasn't even a date, Deb.

  Debbie : [rolls eyes]  Thank you.

  [pauses] 

  Debbie : I tell you, though. I couldn't help myself, because he is *so* gorgeous.

  Joan : But can he type?

• Joan : Tomorrow you know, they're going to come at me like marauding beasts bent on destruction.

  Debbie : Stop it.

  Joan : Deborah, you work in advertising... a civilized business. I on the other hand work with monsters.

  Debbie : You're talking about 5 year olds!

  Joan : Right! and my job is to break their spirit. That is what kindergarten is all about. The Germans invented it, think about it.

• Danny : Hey, know one thing - I never screwed around on you.

  Debbie : Oh, well, let's just give the boy a medal! I didn't realise it was such a sacrifice.

• Danny : [asking about Steve]  Did you sleep with him?

  Debbie : No, Dan, we were bowling partners.

• Debbie : Look, you want me to make Bernie feel right at home? I'll serve him a fist full of white bread and a hunk of Velveeta. Okay?

  Danny : Hey, he is a better person than that *bitch* on wheels you've got for a friend. You know, she's been trying to sabotage us from day 1.

  Debbie : Oh, and Bernie's been really full of comfort and support. He hates my guts and I'm bustin' my ass, making a seven course meal for him.

• Steve Carlson : I thought we had something kind of special.

  Debbie : No, it was kind of sleazy. And now... it's kind of over.

• Joan : Oh god, Pat's going in for the kill. Oh my! That was a nice turn.

  Debbie : With just a hint of giddiness.

  Joan : Her big move should be coming up any moment. The combination hair flip with a giggle.

  Debbie : There is a 3.2 level of difficulty here. Joan let's see if she can pull it off.

  Joan : This is it... this is it... Oh Yes!

  Debbie : Oh Yes! Yes! Oh Bravo! Bravo! 9.0!

• Debbie : This is Joan, my roommate. She specializes in unsolicited attacks.

• Danny : Let me help you.

  [pumps a beer keg] 

  Danny : Anytime I can give you a hand.

  Debbie : I'm finished. Just give yourself a hand.

• Debbie : Well, it's official. I've become my mother.

• Debbie : Fine. I'm gone. It's done. And you can go back to doing whatever you want to do, with whoever you want to do it, and whatever orifice you want to do it in.

• [about a workshop on relationships] 

  Joan : Men and women - sharing, working out their hate.

  Debbie : I'm sick of hating. I mean, God, Joan. I don't think I have any hate left.

  Joan : Yes you do - you just don't know it.

• Debbie : Would you stop following me around. I don't want to have to start drinking in the suburbs.

• Debbie : [on the phone]  Hello?

  Danny : Hello, Debbie?

  Debbie : Who's this?

  Danny : It's Dan. Dan Martin. From last night.

  Debbie : Oh, yeah. Look, I want to talk to you about last night.

  Danny : Oh, what an amazing coincidence. That's what I'm calling about, last night.

  Debbie : Listen, I was - I was pretty drunk last night. Did anything happen?

  Danny : No, absolutely nothing. Want to do it again?

• Danny : You don't have to run off.

  Debbie : Yes, I do. It's really - it's been a slice of heaven, alright. I - I just have to go home. It's - it's a habit of mine.

• Danny : So?

  Debbie : So?

  Danny : So, I - I couldn't help noticing - you and noticing you noticing me.

  Debbie : There's a clock over your head.

  Danny : So?

  Debbie : So.

• Debbie : I don't want to be your roommate. I had a roommate. I want to be closer. I want to be a couple.

• Joan : When you called, was he home?

  Debbie : No, but that's okay. It's sandwich night anyway.

  Joan : Sandwich night?

  Debbie : Well, yeah. Two nights a week I cook. Two nights a week he cooks. Two nights we go out. And then there's sandwich night.

  Joan : You know, I bet your sex life is a real thrill. Two nights a week you're on top. Two nights a week he's on top. So what is it you do on sandwich night?

• Debbie : I feel like a fire hydrant that's been pissed on.

  Joan : Well, maybe it's job-related. I mean, the man does sell toilet paper for a living.

• Danny : Hey, you leave here knowing one thing. I never fooled around. Not once!

  Debbie : Well, let's just give the boy a medal. Forgive me! I didn't realize it was such a sacrifice!

• Debbie : Do you want to be a jerk your whole life?

  Bernie : What?

  Danny : She said don't be an asshole your whole life.

  Bernie : Oh, wait a minute, you're tryin' to - you want to talk. Go ahead, you guys talk. You want a hot dog or somethin', Dan?

  Danny : No.

  Bernie : Deb, you want a nice, hot - 10 inch sausage, maybe?

• Danny : I think I thought it was gonna be different, than it...

  Debbie : Than what it was really like. Me, too. Maybe we were just too naive.

  Danny : Well, maybe. Maybe we knew too much.

  Debbie : That, too.

• Debbie : How can you be against freedom? Freedom's good. I mean, you gotta believe in something.

• Debbie : I may be easy, but I'm not stupid.

• Joan : What do you say we smoke this now?

  Debbie : Oh, God. I haven't been stoned in ages. *He* doesn't like to smoke. That's probably why I haven't been stoned.

  [takes a toke] 

  Debbie : Do I seem different to you?

• Danny : I should have, but I didn't. But, I'm not always going to do what you want, when you want it, according to your grand plan of the way things should be.

  Debbie : I don't have any grand plan.

  Danny : Who invented sandwich night?

• Debbie : I just don't know what I'm doing. I feel like we're a couple of kids playing house. I mean, what's it supposed to be like?

• Joan : He is not worth it, you know.

  Debbie : I hate that number they play.

  Joan : Establishing dominance?

• Debbie : Sometimes you're funny. Sometimes you're just slime!

• Debbie : Tell me what's going on. I'm your best friend.

  Joan : He's going back to his wife.

  Debbie : I didn't even know he was married.

  Joan : Neither did I.

• Joan : You know, they're gonna come at me tomorrow, like savages; marauding beasts, bent on destruction.

  Debbie : You're talking about 5-year-olds.

  Joan : Yes, and my job is to break their spirit. that's what kindergarten is all about. The Germans invented it Deborah, think about that.