Dawn Quotes in Catch .44 (2011)

Tes: Most women apply secret number two to one thing, sex. The rest of the time we're too real. Too real because it's in our nature to be real, which ultimately is a woman's downfall. But faking it keeps you living in man's land.

Kara: Whoa! Who the fuck wants to live in man's land?

Tes: We're already living in it, guys.

Kara: All right, wait wait, let me ask you a question then. Would you be faking it if you compromise? 'Cause you can't fake compromise.

Tes: You half can.

Kara: What the fuck does that mean?

Tes: Compromise is half faking. 'Cause if you weren't compromising half you would have it all. In which case you wouldn't be faking, you would be taking. For example, guys compromise when they leave the toilet seat down. They do it because they know they can't win. And I'm not faking it 'cause I don't pretend not to mind when they do leave the toilet seat up - because I do.

Kara: Slow it down. How is that a compromise on your end?

Dawn: Yeah, and I thought you said wde *should* fake it.

Tes: It's a compromise because I'd fake other things to get my way. Or I'd take away the pussy.

Kara: What are you even talking about? I think you're confusing yourself.

Tes: No no, I think it's just too complicated for you to understand.

Kara: No, it's not at all. I get what you're saying. I just don't agree with you. To me compromising is not faking.

Tes: [sighs] Fine. Then we'll just agree to disagree.

Kara: Or we can agree that I'm right because that's a compromise.

Tes: Tell you what: I'll fake it and we can agree on that.

Kara: But you're compromising to agree on faking it. I can explain it to you if it's too complicated.

Jackie: So what's the plan?

Dawn: When he comes through that door, I'm gonna blast him.

Jackie: Not a whole lotta strategy involved, but I like it!

Dawn: By the way, you can forget it - I don't do sex with friends.

Dawn: I don't do that much heroin - only enough to get straight.

Dawn: I love you!

Bog King: But I'm evil!

Bog King: If you don't keep your mouth shut, I'm going to rip your wings off, my pretty little fairy princess.

Dawn: Flirt!

Dawn: [singing to the Bog King] Sugar pie, honey bunch! You know that I love you...

Dawn: You can't.

Ryan: Do you want me to stop?

Dawn: No.

Ryan: Good.

Dawn: But they'll get you.

Ryan: Who?

Dawn: The teeth.

Ryan: Come on.

Dawn: Seriously.

Ryan: No, no, look. I'm conquering them. See? Yeah, I'm the hero.

Dawn: Can I have a serious talk with you? About you and Melanie.

Brad: There's no me and any bitch.

Dawn: Okay. From what I heard last night...

Brad: That turn you on?

Dawn: I know we've never been close. We've never been like sister and brother, and I really don't know why that is.

Brad: Sure you do. You know.

Dawn: I really don't, but whatever it is, I'd like for it to change.

Brad: You know all that abstinence bullshit. We all know who you've been saving yourself for. And I've been real patient. You think I like living here with these assholes?

Dawn: Mom and dad?

Brad: So why don't you just sit that pretty ass down.

Dawn: That's what the ring is all about. The way it wraps around your finger - that's to remind you to keep your gift wrapped. Wrapped... until the day... you trade it in for that other ring. That gold ring. Get it?

Dawn: The toothed vagina appears in the mythology of many and diverse cultures all over the world. In these myths, the story is always the same. The hero must do battle with the woman. The toothed creature can break her power.

Dawn: [her vagina dentata bites down on Ryan during sex] Oh shit.

Dawn: I think we can't go out together again. I mean, even in a group. Even in a big group.

Dr. Godfrey: I imagine you have no idea what to expect.

Dawn: Not really.

Dr. Godfrey: Well, don't worry. I'm not going to bit ya!

Dawn: Vagina dentata! It's what inside's me. The doctor said so. A hero has to come and conquer them!

Dawn: [after having sex with Ryan] I can't believe you're still alive!

Dawn: Vagina Dentata. The toothed vagina appears in the mythology of many and diverse cultures all over the world. In these myths, the story is always the same. The hero must do battle with the woman, the toothed creature, and break her power. The myth springs from a primitive masculine dread of the mysteries of women and sexual union. Fears of weakness, impotence. It is a nightmare image of the power and horror of female sexuality. The myth imagines sexual intercourse as an epic journey that every man must make back to the womb, the dark crucible that hatched him.

Dawn: Dentata.

Ryan: What?

Dawn: It's Latin for teeth.

Dawn: They are poems that just occur to him on the spot. Last night he said to me, "Dawn, your face is a brilliant moon in my empty room. Your love is like a beating drum. Ba bum ba bum ba bum ba bum."

Becky: Dawn! You're beautiful! Your skin looks like a normal person's!

Dawn: Thank You!

Becky: Hiya there, Earl! We all just agreed that your hair is super attractive! Hooray for you! Whoo-hoo!

Dawn: [simultaneously with Becky] Whoo-hoo!

Dawn: I don't care if she is a pie genius. I wouldn't trade places with her.

Becky: No, me neither.

Dawn: [while having sex with George] Do the Mer-man!

Dawn: Oh my God. I forgot to tell you something.

[long pause, during which Dawn stares into space]

Heather: Oh, she always does that.

Dawn: Don't apologise. It's a sign of weakness.

Dawn: [to Guy] Let me give you a piece of advice here. You want to make it in this business, you don't have time for a personal life, much less a relationship.

Dawn: How about lunch?

Guy: Well, I'm not allowed to take lunch, Buddy doesn't believe in it.

Guy: That's a bagel stain.

Dawn: Bagel stain?

Guy: I put too much cream cheese on Buddy's bagel and he threw it at me. But I learned a very valuable lesson... never put too much cream cheese on Buddy's bagel.

Dawn: Lose the smile. It makes you look like a schmuck.

Dawn: Talk to Buddy about the yelling. It makes you look like a schmuck.

Dawn: Let me ask you a question: why do you want this?

Guy: I don't know. It's just something I've always wanted to do.

Dawn: Oh bullshit. Is it the money? There are easier ways to get rich. Girls? I'll float you a twenty and give you a number to call right now. Why the movies?

John Holmes: Where do you want to go?

Dawn: Anywhere. Everywhere.

Dawn: I want to leave a message. "John, this is Dawn. Some Holy Roller picked me up. Come fuckin' get me."

Answering Service Operator: [voice] I'm sorry Miss, I can't give him that message.

Dawn: OK. How about: "John, this is Dawn. Come and get me, cock sucker?"

Dawn: You know you're a son of a bitch?

A.J. Manglehorn: Yes... I'm aware of it.

Dawn: Yes, you didn't?

A.J. Manglehorn: Yes... I'm aware of it. I'm a son of a bitch. But in time, who isn't?

Dawn: I have to know. About you two.

Nick: Well he loves me. Davy looked after me, yeah? Because of dad. But he kind of... owned me.

Dawn: That's not love.

Nick: He fucks you, but he loves me!

Dawn: He hates you! You have to go, I'll bring you money.

Nick: Where could I go?

Dawn: If you love him, you'll leave us!

Dawn: Why did we come here?

David: Because I want to do some good in a place where my dad was a tosser.

Nick: [holding a lettuce] What's this?

David: You buggered it last night.

Dawn: You were sleep-walking.

Nick: Shit. Haven't done that in a while.

David: What, buggered a lettuce?

David: One of my students is cutting herself.

Dawn: How do you know?

David: She told me. Such a shame, she's a bright kid.

Dawn: You have to report it.

David: I don't want to get into trouble. With her family, I mean.

Dawn: You have to tell someone, David, it's the law.

David: Yeah, well. Social services, bit of a mixed bag. Trust me.

Dawn: You frightened me earlier.

David: Sorry. It gets to me sometimes.

Dawn: I hardly know you, do I?