Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Michael J. Fox: Jamie
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Quotes
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Ferret Man : Wanna buy a ferret?
Jamie Conway : No. No, thanks.
Ferret Man : Loose joints. Genuine Hawaiian sens. His name is Fred...
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Jamie Conway : [voice over] You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning and, though the details are fuzzy, you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar.
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Jamie Conway : We sort of split up.
Theresa : Too bad for you. She was yummy! Sort of the slinky girl-next-door look. Very ingenuous.
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[last lines]
Jamie Conway : You have to go slowly. You'll have to learn everything all over again.
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Jamie Conway : There's a certain shabby nobility in failing all by myself.
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Tad Allagash : Doing a little writing, are we?
[reads paper in typewriter]
Tad Allagash : Yeah! "Dead Amanda"! I told ya, you get more nookie than you can shake a fucking stick at if you just told people your wife was dead.
Jamie Conway : I hit the wrong key.
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Jamie Conway : Thanks for the linguine and sympathy...
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Walter Tyler : So how's Clara behaving?
Jamie Conway : Same as usual. Like a fourth-grade tyrant.
Walter Tyler : I've always wanted to ask somebody in Fact - does Clara piss in the men's room or the ladies'?
Jamie Conway : I don't believe she pisses.
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Tad Allagash : Ready to roll? The girls are waiting.
Jamie Conway : Right. Where are we rolling to?
Tad Allagash : Into the heart of the night! Wherever there are dances to be danced, drugs to be hoovered, women to be Allagashed. It's a dirty job, Jamie, but somebody's got to do it.
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Tad Allagash : Speaking of drugs, are you in possession?
Jamie Conway : Negative.
Tad Allagash : Not even a single line for young Tad?
Jamie Conway : Sorry.
Tad Allagash : Not even a mirror to lick?
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Drunken Writer : I started off as an office boy at the magazine - got published every so often. I used to write satirical sketches on Manhattan highlife.
Jamie Conway : I know, I used to read that stuff. Amazing.
Drunken Writer : Yeah. A lot more fun than being an editor. All I do as an editor is read a lot of undisciplined, untalented crap.
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Jamie Conway : She's got a heart like a twelve-minute egg.
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Jamie Conway : I hear rabies shots are really painful. They put needles in your dick or something.
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Vicky : Are you sure you're all right?
Jamie Conway : Well, my brain is trying to find a way out of its skull - and I'm afraid of just about everything; but, I'm okay.
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Jamie Conway : This man calls. He said he was her lawyer. Easiest thing all the way around, he said was for me to sue her for sexual abandonment. A legal term, he said.
