Bandits (2001)

Cate Blanchett: Kate Wheeler

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Quotes 

• Joe : What'd you bring her here for?

  Terry : One, I had no choice, two, I may have suffered a slight concussion and three, she is mentally imbalanced to a spectacular degree.

  Kate : I can hear you!

• Terry : Kate, I - I'm a desperate man.

  Kate : Desperate?

  Terry : Yes.

  Kate : You don't know the meaning of the word. Desperate is when you wake up in the morning and you wish you hadn't. It's knowing that every time you get behind the wheel of a car you're only a tree away from ending the empty charade that your life has become! So don't talk to me about desperate!

• [Speaking to Kate after she refuses to get out of the car] 

  Terry : You're insane!

  Kate : I'm unhappy! It's not the same thing.

• Terry : Do you smell burning feathers?

  Kate : Burning feathers?

  Terry : Joe's older brother, Albert. He smelled burning feathers. He had a brain tumor.

  Kate : Joe doesn't have an older brother.

• [Kate starts reciting the lines to "Total Eclipse of the Heart". Joe joins in] 

  Kate : Oh my god! I can't believe you KNOW that song!

  Joe : Yeah. Bonnie Tyler. "Total Eclipse of the Heart". It's the ultimate sappy chick song.

• Terry : I am a fugitive from justice! I am a dangerous criminal!

  Kate : Oh well that explains the hijacking!

• Kate : You can't just step in front of a moving car and expect it to stop!

  Terry : Yes you can! I've seen it done!

• Charles Wheeler : Please, wherever you are, return my wife to me. Kate, if you're listening, I want you to know that I'm okay. I hope you're holding up well, I hope that these gentlemen are treating you correctly, the way you should be treated, and speaking of which, I'm going to Spain next week, so if your kidnappers would like to contact me, they can get in touch with my people, and you know who they are, and the house is waiting for you, right here, where you belong. And the house misses you, I miss you...

  [Kate turns off the television] 

  Kate : Hmph! He has no IDEA where I belong!

  Joe : You belong here.

  Terry : Yeah. With us.

• Kate : I'll make dinner.

  Terry : I cook the dinners around here.

  Kate : Sorry. Not familiar with the outlaw code.

• Terry : Kate, there are guys who leave, and there are guys who get left. I don't think it's any mystery as to which category I fall into.

  Kate : Terry, I'm not leavin' you.

  Terry : You're staying?

  Kate : Yeah.

  [Kate gives terry a kiss] 

  Kate : Good night.

• Kate Wheeler : He dislocated my jaw and I still married him.

  Terry Collins : Hmm

  Kate Wheeler : Oh, I don't know the first thing about love. Oh, I know I look like I do, but I... I don't. Not really.

  Terry Collins : Love is a wish that hides in your heart and nobody knows about it but you. Love is blinding, an eternity in a single moment, a religion worth dying for. Well yeah, it's also time consuming.

  Kate Wheeler : Yeah

  Terry Collins : ...and a, and a pain in the ass, and a hole in the heart, and that sort of thing. Not necessarily in that order, but I'd like to think that it is, in that order, really.

  [sneezes]