Detective William Bendix Quotes in I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (2017)

Ruth: I mean, why... why you don't want to help me?

Detective William Bendix: Help you?

Ruth: Yeah... I just why? Isn't that your job?

Detective William Bendix: My job?

Ruth: Yeah.

Detective William Bendix: I am doing my job. You're asking me about my job, right now.

Ruth: Yeah, I'm coming in here...

Detective William Bendix: You come to my work place...

Ruth: I have evidence here...

Detective William Bendix: ...and you ask me about my job. Just because you left your door wide open for some punk to stroll right in, you think the universe revolves around you. Well grow up! We have a man beaten unconcious in his drive way.

Ruth: That's awful.

Detective William Bendix: Now, yes, awful. And now, now Ruth, he has skull fragments in his brain. The world is bigger than your silverware. People are experiencing bigger problems! There are people out there

[pausing because he's almost crying]

Detective William Bendix: I'm... I'm being divorced. First time I said it out loud.

Ruth: Sir, I'm very...

Detective William Bendix: Uh-uh, move it, move your hand. Go home, Ruth.

Detective William Bendix: [looking at her cast of a footprint out of her garden] What do you do, Miss Kimke?

Ruth: Uh... Well, I'm a nursing assistant.

Detective William Bendix: Now, suppose I came down to where you do that... Your hospital...

Ruth: It's a post-op facility.

Detective William Bendix: Okay. Well, suppose I came down there and I said, You know, maybe not that medication, Ruth, maybe this one instead, don't ya think?

Ruth: No, that's what... That's not what I meant by...

Detective William Bendix: You present a certainty that the owner of a vehicle you happened to see at a garage sale is the same individual who burglarized your home. And... His footprint. And that his foot, according to this, is made out of scrambled eggs!