Winter Kills (1979)
Jeff Bridges: Nick Kegan
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Quotes
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Nick Kegan : Why won't you marry me?
Yvette Malone : You hardly know me.
Nick Kegan : We see each other, I talk to you all the time.
Yvette Malone : You talk to my machine.
Nick Kegan : Ah so what, I can tell the difference!
Yvette Malone : That's a beginning.
Nick Kegan : I'm making an honest proposal of marriage!
Yvette Malone : Tell you what. I'll give you a copy of my answering machine tape and you can take it with you.
Nick Kegan : Come on, don't toy with me.
Yvette Malone : I'm serious!
Nick Kegan : We'll have this huge wedding at Saint Patrick's Cathedral!
Yvette Malone : Saint Patricks? What if I'm Jewish?
Nick Kegan : That doesn't matter. Pa knows the cardinal.
Yvette Malone : You see darling? You know nothing about me.
Nick Kegan : I know all I need to know!
Yvette Malone : You know what? That you're in love with my answering machine?
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Pa Kegan : Looks like you were telling the truth.
Nick Kegan : Truth? Pa, I'm your son.
Pa Kegan : Ah, you always had an excitable imagination. For a while, as a boy, I was afraid you might turn out to be a fag.
Nick Kegan : You're a real winner, Pa.
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Pa Kegan : You ain't a piano player, you ain't an artist. You got no business sense, no political sense. What the hell do you want anyway? Where are your values in life?
Nick Kegan : I honestly don't know.
Pa Kegan : Do you get laid? I ask you, do you get laid?
Nick Kegan : Yeah.
Pa Kegan : Do you know how many times your brother got laid when he was in office?
Nick Kegan : What are you, the 'National Inquirer'?
Pa Kegan : One thousand seventy-two, and with a schedule like his.
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Nick Kegan : I think I'm going to leave.
Yvette Malone : If you want to. I have a friend coming over if you'd like to meet her.
Nick Kegan : Friend? Who?
Yvette Malone : Patty! She's from the magazine. You'd dig her.
Nick Kegan : Dig her? What does that mean?
Yvette Malone : Whatever you want it to mean. God, you're just like the others!
Nick Kegan : Others. How many are there?
Yvette Malone : Fewer and fewer.
Nick Kegan : Oh, I get it. You're into women.
Yvette Malone : I am a woman.
Nick Kegan : You know what I'm talking about.
Yvette Malone : Nope, and I won't marry a person I can't understand.
Nick Kegan : Goodnight.
Yvette Malone : Call the machine whenever you want, darling. It only goes one way.
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Z.K. Dawson : What I ought to do is run right over you, flatten you like a waffle.
Nick Kegan : Sir?
Z.K. Dawson : I know why you're here. You're here because you think I had some part of a conspiracy killed your brother. You and all the other conspiracy lovers in this conspiracy-loving country.
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Nick Kegan : I'd like to take a look at Pa's copy of the full Pickering Report.
Keith : That will only make you sad.
Nick Kegan : Sad? Now, you once told me all knowledge was good.
Keith : I don't recall. Actually, that not something I would say.
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Nick Kegan : Get a hold of Miles Garner in Philly. Have him meet me at the airport with some long underwear. It'll be freezing there.
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Nick Kegan : We need help in this.
Pa Kegan : Help? Like who? The CIA? They smuggle my cigars from Havana, that's what they do. Import, export.
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Pa Kegan : You won't need the vet.
Nick Kegan : The vet?
Pa Kegan : Yeah, the vet for Cocoa. Your mother passed out last night and smothered the mutt in her sleep.
Nick Kegan : Oh, no.
Pa Kegan : Yeah. Sleeps with the damn dog. Crazy woman.
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Nick Kegan : You're bringing the confession to the President?
Pa Kegan : Hell, no. That moron can't read to find the men's room.
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Yvette Malone : Why complicate things? We have great sex, freedom, no kids, no responsibilities. Why duplicate the messes others make?
Nick Kegan : Well, we don't have to.
Yvette Malone : You mean we can make a mess of our own?
Nick Kegan : Who knows what'll happen?
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Nick Kegan : [on the phone] I got something to tell you. I can't believe you're real!
Yvette Malone : Yeah, well, I'm not real. I'm just a more complicated new machine.
Nick Kegan : You're what?
Yvette Malone : You come on over and see what this new machine can do.
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Pa Kegan : Here's a map on how to get there. He's south of Tulsa. It's all arranged. Take it. Take it!
Nick Kegan : Okay, Pa. For the family.
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Yvette Malone : I can't.
Nick Kegan : Don't say you can't. Say you don't want.
Yvette Malone : I don't want.
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Nick Kegan : Get me a double, please, Raymond.
Raymond-The Butler : A double what, sir?
Nick Kegan : Uh, on second thought, make it triple.
Raymond-The Butler : A triple what, sir?
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Nick Kegan : I'm glad you came.
Yvette Malone : Well, me too. I hate saying good-bye to a naked man.
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Nick Kegan : [on the phone] Hello. This is Nick Kegan. A maid just left my room. Have security stop her, please. She tried to kill me.
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Nick Kegan : You know, Tim - He had thousands of women, and I've, uh, I've actually only had 12. And I know that may seem conservative to you.
Yvette Malone : Oh, listen, honey. You get me this story, I'll get you all you want.
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Pa Kegan : I forgot. You're the boy scout of the family. Tim always shared information on his broads.
Nick Kegan : I'm not Tim.
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Nick Kegan : You must have a record of her.
Receptionist : Sir, this is National magazine. Everything we must have, we have.
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Keifitz : It's a conundrum. Riddles within riddles.
Nick Kegan : Now Yvette's gone.
Keifitz : That broad we met in Paris?
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Keifitz : Pa's awareness is global.
Nick Kegan : Yeah, so is mud.
Keifitz : Nick, use him. Use the organization. He's got more clout than the Common Market - and you're taking the advice of a broad who's probably a plant.
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Keifitz : Go to Cerruti. He works for you, remember?
Nick Kegan : What about you?
Keifitz : I'm gonna stay dead for awhile. I feel healthier that way.
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Nick Kegan : Pa thinks, uh, Moses lied about the Ten Commandments, because what God really said was, "Do what you want, but don't get caught."
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John Cerruti : She's been kidnapped.
Nick Kegan : Kidnapped?
John Cerruti : Yeah. Abducted, swept away, taken off, snatched. Kidnapped.
Nick Kegan : By whom?
John Cerruti : The kidnappers.