Pearl Antoine Quotes in Choose Me (1984)

Pearl Antoine: [reciting her own poetry] No matter who I'm with, / They want to know if I'm still sleeping with you. / I say that you sleep while I die a little. / But I'm not afraid of death. / At least you get laid in your coffin.

[pause]

Pearl Antoine: You weren't even listening.

Mickey: You want to get laid.

Pearl Antoine: It was just a poem.

Mickey: Just a thought.

Pearl Antoine: God, you love to stare at women.

Mickey: Old habit.

Pearl Antoine: Yeah, that's what I need, a good job. You wanna know what my favorite job would be, of all time? To be the radio talk lady, Dr Nancy Love. Ever listen to her?

Mickey: I don't listen to radio talk.

Pearl Antoine: Well, you should, because she's real smart. I mean, just think, having a job where you talk on the phone all day, and get paid for it. Women trust her, men fantasize about her. What a life! I hear she's tall and blond.

Nancy: Maybe it's not just, uh, one man, Rita, maybe it's a feeling you have for all men. Sex, like everything else, is largely a mystery, I mean, there's no such thing as normal sex, normal sex is a matter of statistics. What may be normal for the vast majority is no criterion of behavior for the exceptional person.

Pearl Antoine: But I am exceptional.

Nancy: [becoming gradually more agitated] Throughout history, individuals of the first rank would never have produced had they not been immersed in sex and spontaneous sexual behavior. I mean that uncontrollable impulse that shakes you to your very foundation, that makes your - nerves ends tickle and that makes your head spin and makes you feel like, like jelly, you may think it's wine, Rita, but it's not, it's blood. And there's nothing wrong with that feeling. We all need to get it, we all need it, there's nothing wrong with IT.

Pearl Antoine: But I know about all that.

Announcer: Nancy, stand by for a station break.

Nancy: I'm sorry, Rita, we're going for, uh, station identification.