Dexter (TV Series)
Love American Style (2006)
Michael C. Hall: Dexter Morgan
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Quotes
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[Dexter is daydreaming at a crime scene; soft piano music is playing]
Dexter Morgan : [v.o] I like to pretend I'm alone. Completely alone. Maybe post-apocalypse or plague... Whatever. No-one left to act normal for. No need to hide who I really am. It would be... freeing.
Sergeant Doakes : [Doakes seemingly walks up out of nowhere] Stop grinning like a fucking psycho and get back to work!
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Angel Batista : [hungover] I guess I had one too many, huh?
Dexter Morgan : And then about 10 more.
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Dexter Morgan : Maybe if I don't blink, my eyes will tear up.
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Dexter Morgan : Do you have a dream for your life? Your future? Yes?
Rita Bennett : Of course. Do you?
Dexter Morgan : It might sound weird. I want to someday be content. Just feel comfortable, like everyone else. I want...
Rita Bennett : ...a normal life?
Dexter Morgan : Yeah, a normal life.
Rita Bennett : That's all I want. Just that.
Dexter Morgan : No fame and fortune? Excitement at every turn?
Rita Bennett : No, I've had enough excitement, thank you. I'll take boring.
Dexter Morgan : Average.
Rita Bennett : Ordinary.
Dexter Morgan : That's weird, huh?
Rita Bennett : Yeah.
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Dexter Morgan : [voice-over] She wants something from me. Ever since the blow-job, she assumes we've taken it to the next level. She doesn't know yet: I don't have a next level.
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Dexter Morgan : [narrating] I don't understand America's obsession with cars. I can just imagine squeezing Rita and the kids into this thing. Hitting the open road, cramped quarters, public bathrooms, hours of nothing but conversation. Someone's American dream, my nightmare.
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Dexter Morgan : [voice-over] It always comes to this, once sex is introduced. Small talk no longer cuts it. Eventually, she'll call me a science project and slam the door in my face.
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Officer Gerard : Believe me, your maid is not the first one to get screwed.
Dexter Morgan : No, she's *a* maid, she's not *my* maid. So, have you heard of any other Cuban immigrants disappearing?
Officer Gerard : A few. The poor bastards. Spend their life's savings to get stuffed into a fish-hole. Puke the whole 90 miles to Miami. Then they get here thinking: I'm an American! I'm free! Except the damn coyote, he won't let 'em go till his family comes up for the surprise release fee. If they can't pay...
Dexter Morgan : They disappear.
Officer Gerard : Freedom's just another word for one more way to get fucked.
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Dexter Morgan : She has no clue who she's with. Maybe that's the key to a successful relationship.
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Officer Gerard : Look, buddy. I know you want to help out your maid. But there ain't a hell of a lot you can do.
Dexter Morgan : [thinks to himself] You'd be surprised.
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Jorge Castillo : I love you.
Valerie Castillo : I love you so much.
Dexter Morgan : I'm going to ask you a question and I want you to answer me honestly, understand? No more bullshit. How long have you been married?
Valerie Castillo : Twelve years.
Dexter Morgan : How do you love each other? You're like me, you make it work. How?
Jorge Castillo : We want the same life.
Valerie Castillo : We want the same thing
Dexter Morgan : You share the same dream?
Valerie Castillo , Jorge Castillo : Yes that's it.
Dexter Morgan : That's, uh, helpful. Thank you.
[stuffs cotton in their mouths and prepares to kill them]
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Dexter Morgan : [voice-over] Deviating from the plan may have been ill-advised. But, sometimes, you just have to take a risk. After all, isn't that what relationships are all about?
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Angel Batista : You're kind of neat, aren't you?
Dexter Morgan : Bad habit instilled by mom.
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Vince Masuka : [pointing to the gurney on which Tony Tucci had lain and had bled] Hey, Dexter, you, uh, you get all this blood on camera yet?
Dexter Morgan : Let's start shooting it, Jackson Pollock.