Linda Forchet Quotes in Rolling Thunder (1977)

Linda Forchet: Do you know a guy named Billy Sanchez?

Bartender # 2: Why are you lookin' for him? He ain't no good for nothing.

Linda Forchet: I don't want him for nothin', I just want to talk to him.

Bartender # 2: He ain't even good for that.

Linda Forchet: Why do I always get stuck with crazy men?

Major Charles Rane: 'Cause that's the only kind that's left.

Linda Forchet: I work here at night.

Major Charles Rane: Then what are you doing here now?

Linda Forchet: You're the strong silent type, aren't you?

Major Charles Rane: Nah, I'm just a little rusty on my smalltalk.

Linda Forchet: Man, I have had it with lying men, Charlie. The ones who say one thing and do another. The ones that always let you down. Are you gonna let me down?

Major Charles Rane: Depends on what you're lookin' for.

Linda Forchet: I hope you're not just stringing me along, Charlie Rane. I hope that's not all you're doin'.

Major Charles Rane: I don't have to do that, do I?

Linda Forchet: Maybe you do. How old do you think I am?

Major Charles Rane: 25.

Linda Forchet: [smiles] Almost thirty. Been around the course a couple times now.

Major Charles Rane: Well you sure don't look it.

Linda Forchet: Well I do in the morning. And after I've been out partying all night. I do when I'm sitting alone brooding about some worthless man. I've had a few of 'em, you know?

Major Charles Rane: What are you getting at?

Linda Forchet: Only that you can trust me. And I wanna know I can trust you. I wanna help.

Major Charles Rane: Let's get outta here.

Linda Forchet: Charlie, you are the quietest man I've ever known.

Major Charles Rane: That's cause I can't think of anything to say. It's like my eyes are open and I'm looking at you but I'm dead. They've pulled out whatever it was inside of me. It never hurt at all after that and it never will.

Linda Forchet: Bebe, the man is thirsty.

Bebe: Well you sure shouldn't be.

Major Charles Rane: I'd like to thank you too for wearing my bracelet all that time. I really appreciate that.

Linda Forchet: It's the very least I could do. I'd like to do more.

Linda Forchet: You got yourself a groupie major.

Major Charles Rane: What's a groupie? That word's a little after my time.

Linda Forchet: Well a groupie is a girl who falls in love with a rock star or a movie star, somebody she doesn't know. Worships him... knows she's never gonna meet him but, uh, if she ever does she'll do anything for him. Anything... she can.

Linda Forchet: You're lookin' for those guys, aren't you? Aren't you? You know who they are, don't you? Don't you?

Major Charles Rane: Some of them.

Linda Forchet: Well why don't you just tell the police?

Major Charles Rane: Because I want to find all of 'em.

Linda Forchet: You know you don't have to do any of this. You don't have to go after these guys. We could just jump in the car and go a thousand miles from here and nobody'd know any different.

Linda Forchet: I'm gonna need a vacation when this vacation's over. Feel like I've been gone two years instead of two days.

Linda Forchet: [Linda drops her tray of drinks to go with Charlie] Wednesday was always a slow night.