Linda Howard Quotes in Lost in America (1985)

Linda Howard: [repeated line, at the roulette table] Twenty-two, twenty-two, come on back to me, come on back to me!

David Howard: Why didn't you tell me when we got married that you were this horrible gambling addict? It's like when you have a venereal disease - you tell somebody!

Linda Howard: I've only gambled twice in my life. This was the second time.

David Howard: Weren't you scared? What were you talking about?

Linda Howard: Oh, God. I - He was telling me his whole life story. He was divorced. He got kicked out of the Army. He couldn't keep the job. Do you know he escaped from prison?

David Howard: What did he do?

Linda Howard: Well, to hear him tell it, he says those two guys were dead when he got there.

David Howard: Oh, God!

David Howard: Linda, quit, I'll wait right here.

Linda Howard: Why - I can't quit now.

David Howard: Yes you can!

Linda Howard: No I can't!

David Howard: I did!

Linda Howard: I know, but even if I wanted to, my boss isn't here, there's no one I can quit to.

David Howard: Well, it's time to get out. We have to touch Indians. We have to see the mountains and the prairies and the whole rest of that song. Let's make love right now. I want to have sex with you right here.

David Howard: We're up!

Linda Howard: We're still down.

David Howard: How down?

Linda Howard: Down.

David Howard: How down is she?

Desert Inn Casino Manager: Down.

David Howard: Quit!

Linda Howard: What?

David Howard: Quit your job.

Linda Howard: Quit my job?

David Howard: I did. You too do it.

Linda Howard: You quit your job?

David Howard: Well, I didn't really quit, but I got fired. But it was the same thing. Linda, you were right. No more "responsible David". I'm free! I was responsibly blind, honey. I was a dead man.

Linda Howard: I would never have used that word, if I knew you'd have taken it so literally. I didn't mean anything by it.

David Howard: I'm crediting you for saving my life.

Linda Howard: It was just a word!

David Howard: Linda, they were jacking me off!

Linda Howard: Ssssh!

David Howard: [in hushed tone] They were jacking me off!