Boogie Nights (1997)

Joanna Gleason: Dirk's Mother

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Quotes 

• Eddie Adams : [Eddie has returned home after auditioning for Jack all night, his mother is up and waiting for him in the living room, drunk]  Hi.

  Dirk's Mother : Where were you?

  Eddie Adams , Dirk's Mother : Nowhere.

  Dirk's Mother : Shut up. Where were you?

  [puts out her cigarette] 

  Dirk's Mother : Did you see that little slut girl you see? Cheryl? Cheryl Lynn?

  Eddie Adams : Don't say that.

  Dirk's Mother : Do you feel like a stud to see trash like that? Is she your girlfriend?

  Eddie Adams : No, she's not my girlfriend.

  Dirk's Mother : She's a little whore, and a little piece of trash. And I know you're not the only one she sees.

  Eddie Adams : Why... why would you say something like that?

  Dirk's Mother : I heard things about her, that girl. Don't think I don't know what goes on here, when I'm not here. I wash your sheets, I know she's been here. Or, or are you doing something else in there, with your music and your posters on the wall?

  Eddie Adams : What is your problem?

  Dirk's Mother : OK, all right, fine. Just go. Go to that little whore Cheryl. Why don't you just go to her. Go to your little girl.

  Eddie Adams : Yeah? Well, maybe I will.

  [heads to his room] 

  Dirk's Mother : Yeah?

  Eddie Adams : Yeah!

  Dirk's Mother : Yeah? Well, what are you going to do?

  [she gets up and follows him] 

  Eddie Adams : I don't know! I'll do somethin'!

  Dirk's Mother : You can't do anything! You're a loser! You'll always be a loser! You couldn't even finish high school because you are so stupid! So what are you gonna do?

  Eddie Adams : I'm gonna do something! I'll do it! You know what, I'll go somewhere and do something, and maybe run away to where you can't find me!

  Dirk's Mother : Oh, go ahead... fuck that little girl!

  [Eddie grabs a duffel bag and begins to fill it with his belongings] 

  Dirk's Mother : Oh, what do you think you're doing?

  Eddie Adams : I'm gettin' my stuff!

  Dirk's Mother : Oh, you think that's your stuff? That's not your stuff! You didn't pay for it!

  [grabs Eddie's face and squeezes it hard] 

  Dirk's Mother : That is not your stuff because you didn't pay for it, stupid! None of this is yours!

• Dirk : [Eddie/Dirk and his mother are having a heated argument in his bedroom as she's destroying his posters]  Don't do that!

  [hysterical] 

  Dirk : Why the fuck do you keep doing that?

  Dirk's Mother : [screaming]  You're not gonna be shit because you're too stupid!

  Dirk : I'm not stupid!

  Dirk's Mother : Yes you are!

  Dirk : [ripping a poster from her hands]  Please, please don't fucking do that!

  [crying] 

  Dirk : Please don't be mean to me!

  Dirk's Mother : I am not being mean to you! You're just too stupid to see it!