Shakedown (1988)

Peter Weller: Roland Dalton

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• Roland Dalton : Richie, I love you man, but you are definitely new to the planet!

• Gail Feinberger : Don't you think it's a little early in the morning for heavy metal?

  Roland Dalton : Gail, Gail, honey, sweetie, I love you, I'm gonna marry you, but you are making me feel very old. This is not heavy metal. This is Hendrix. Genius, maybe, but this is definitely not heavy metal.

• Roland Dalton : Once upon a time all I planned to do was play the tenor sax. Forever. That's it. Fillsville, man. But my dad and everybody said I was a sap, there was no money in it, so I go to law school, and I am here now, gone from another place. But I could play the tenor sax all day and all night. Everything was possible. And I was very certain that at any moment, I was going to find the love of my life.

  Richie Marks : The love of your life?

  Roland Dalton : Yeah.

  Richie Marks : I met the love of my life. Only I killed her dog before I had a chance to tell her. Man she was everything I ever wanted. We met at Shakespeare in the park. Told her I was a lawyer. That line seemed to work for you. Rained like hell in a day. Had an umbrella. We went back to her apartment. She went to the bathroom, I sat on the couch. She had this great big damn dog. The dog had a ball. I threw it. The dog brought it back. I threw it again, harder. I'll never forget the sound of that dog's paws on the newly waxed floors. How was I supposed to know she left the window open? Her dog fell 13 stories, landed on top of a parked car. I went over, leaned out the window, looked down, threw up and left. Left. Without ever telling her she was the one.

  Roland Dalton : Happy is the fleeting hope of youth.

  Richie Marks : Who said that?

  Roland Dalton : Me. I'm gonna take the streets, Richie.

  Richie Marks : Good for you, counselor. Me, too.

• Richie Marks : You just don't get it. Don't fuck with these people.

  Roland Dalton : Richie, I don't want to fuck with them, I just want to dance.

• Roland Dalton : I wanted to tell her. I wanted to but then her dad showed up for lunch.

  Susan Cantrell : Oh, so your guts dried up in the face of Daddy Warbucks?

  Roland Dalton : Now is this gonna be some kind of female territorial doo-wop?