Accepted (2006)

Mark Derwin: Jack Gaines

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Quotes 

• Bartleby Gaines : Uh, Dean Lewis why don't you tell them a little bit about the philosophy here at south Harmon?

  Uncle Ben : Look, we throw a lot of fancy words in front of these kids in order to attract them to going to school in the belief that they're gonna have a better life, and we know that all were doing is breeding a whole new generation of buyers and sellers, BUYERS AND SELLERS! Pimps and whores, PIMPS AND WHORES! and indoctrinating them into a life long hell of debt and indecision!

  Jack Gaines : I... I, I just don't understand...

  Uncle Ben : DO I HAVE TO SPOON FEED IT TO YA? look, there's only one reason that kids want to go to school...

  Bartleby Gaines : [quietly]  Holy shit...

  Jack Gaines : [after long pause]  ... Which is?

  Uncle Ben : ...To get a good job... To get a good job, with a great starting salary.

  Jack Gaines : I couldn't agree more.

  Diane Gaines : It is so refreshing to have somebody approach education so rationally!

  Uncle Ben : Fuckin' A!

• Jack Gaines : [on the phone]  Tell me what classes you're taking?

  Bartleby Gaines : [on the phone]  Classes? Right, I'm taking

  [sees kids playing craps] 

  Bartleby Gaines : statistics, and uhh

  [sees kids dealing drugs] 

  Bartleby Gaines : business, and

  [sees girl nearly taking her bikini off] 

  Bartleby Gaines : an... a... tomy...

  Jack Gaines , Diane Gaines : [on the phone]  Anatomy?

• Diane Gaines : Are you huffing?

  Bartleby Gaines : Oh god.

  Diane Gaines : Are you high?

  Jack Gaines : You're huffing grass?

  Bartleby Gaines : No I'm not huffing mom I'm not stoned I'm completely fine, infact I'm more clear and level headed than I've ever been.

  Jack Gaines : Okay cut the crap Bartleby. Society has rules and the first rule is: You go to college. You wanna have a happy and successful life, you go to college. If you wanna be somebody, you go to college. If you wanna fit in, you go to college.

  Bartleby Gaines : Well you know what maybe I didn't get into college!

• Diane Gaines : I knew we should've started preparing for college in junior high, like your sister.

  Jack Gaines : Now she's got a shot.

  Lizzie Gaines : I've got a shot.

  Diane Gaines : She's got a shot.

• Jack Gaines : Listen, I took another look at that website, what's all this be-what-you-wanna-be-crap?

  Bartleby Gaines : Oh no no, dad they just have to say stuff like that just to keep from being sued.

  Jack Gaines : Yeah well it sounds like a bunch of crap to me.