A Walk on the Moon (1999)

Diane Lane: Pearl Kantrowitz

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Quotes 

• Alison Kantrowitz : I never have to listen to you ever again. I saw you. I was there. You should have seen yourself. You looked disgusting! I'm the teenager! Not you! You had your chance.

  Pearl Kantrowitz : No. I didn't.

  Alison Kantrowitz : Well then why do the rest of us have to suffer just because you fucked up your life!

• Pearl Kantrowitz : I went to Woodstock.

  Marty Kantrowitz : You went to Woodstock.

  Pearl Kantrowitz : Ummm...

  Marty Kantrowitz : Was it groovy?

• Marty Kantrowitz : Did I want a microscope?

  Pearl Kantrowitz : Once.

• Marty Kantrowitz : Who is he?

  Pearl Kantrowitz : You don't know him.

  Marty Kantrowitz : Well what's his name?

  Pearl Kantrowitz : Walker.

  Marty Kantrowitz : What's his FIRST name?

  Pearl Kantrowitz : That IS his first name.

  Marty Kantrowitz : Well then what's his last name?

  Pearl Kantrowitz : Jerome.

  Marty Kantrowitz : Walker Jerome. Does he realize it's backwards? What's he do?

  Pearl Kantrowitz : He's a salesman.

  Marty Kantrowitz : [laughs]  A salesman, that's great. What does he sell?

  Pearl Kantrowitz : Blouses.

  Marty Kantrowitz : Blouses?

  [pauses, then looks shocked] 

  Marty Kantrowitz : He's the blouseman. You're screwing the blouseman. Jesus, Pearl, why not screw the dressman? At least then you'd get a whole outfit.

• Pearl Kantrowitz : I can't go.

  Walker Jerome : I saw.

• Alison Kantrowitz : You love the blouseman more than all of us?

  Pearl Kantrowitz : No. Sometimes it's easier to be different with a different person.

• Pearl Kantrowitz : [Looking at the portable TV in Walker's bus]  I've never seen one so small.

  Walker Jerome : You like that? My brother picked it up in southeast Asia.

  Pearl Kantrowitz : What was he doing over there?

  Walker Jerome : Killing people.

• Alison Kantrowitz : Are you and Daddy gonna get a divorce?

  Pearl Kantrowitz : I don't know, baby. Sometimes, things happen between people that make it impossible for them to stay together.

  Alison Kantrowitz : Look, Mama, I know Daddy's a big square, but he's still Daddy!