Roxanne Quotes in Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978)

Roxanne: He's always looking at the good side of people.

Marcus: Yeah, but while he's looking at their good side, their bad side is gonna finish him.

Roxanne: Come home. Please, come home.

Roxanne: Go on, go on. Good daddy.

Roxanne: Have a great time at the concert, Max. I'll see you on TV.

Max: [to himself] I'm in deep sludge.

Roxanne: Why do these things always have to start with young, beautiful co-eds going into the basement?

Tripper: [dancing together] Is that a bra you're wearing, or are you expecting an assassination attempt?

Roxanne: Are those Clorets in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

Tripper: OK, we're even. 3 years of this. I don't think I have many lines left. Frankly, Roxanne, I'm frightened.

Roxanne: Oh, no. Don't go human on me now, Tripper.

Tripper: Roxanne, I have what doctors call "very active glands." You're the first person I've told, my folks don't even know.

Roxanne: Well, maybe you can have surgery without them knowing.

Tripper: Awww, heck with surgery! Let's wrestle!

Roxanne: [Tripper has proposed that they live together after the summer] Where would I stay?

Tripper: My place, what do you think?

Roxanne: Is it big enough?

Tripper: It's *got* a *double bed.* What's the matter with you, haven't you ever lived with anybody before?

Roxanne: No. Have you?

Tripper: Pets, you know, a dog, a fish. No, I haven't. I've never asked anybody before.

[They kiss]

Roxanne: Don't ever get married. It sucks. You stop appreciating each other and you run out of shit to talk about after the first year.

Roxanne: Would you like to have dinner tomorrow night?

Ed: I like to have dinner every night.

Roxanne: Do you know what would be great on this corn dog?

Ed: A turtleneck?

Ed: [on a double date, Dexter and Monique are going off alone] What am I supposed to do?

Roxanne: [insulted] Hello?

Ed: Hello! What am I supposed to do?

Roxanne: Now Ed, let's go someplace where we could be alone, and get to know each other a little better, now, doesn't that sound more fun then Miniature Golf?

Ed: [thinks about it] Uh... nooooo!

Ed: [after Roxanne falls] Uh, is your butt okay?

Roxanne: It's fine, thank you.

Ed: It's okay, people! HER BUTT... IS FINE!

Ed: Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?

Roxanne: [seductively] No, thanks. I just came here to see you, Ed. I'm Roxanne.

Ed: Ohhhh.

[pause]

Ed: Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?

Snaps: What a day this turned out to be! Both my girls are getting married!

Sophia: [looks at Snaps suspiciously] What do you mean, "both"?

Snaps: [embraces her, indicates Theresa] Sophia, my wife, meet Theresa, my daughter.

Sophia: Your... daughter?

Snaps: I just found out myself.

Theresa: Me, too!

Sophia: If she's your daughter, then who is her mother?

Roxanne: I am.

Sophia: [shouts] You had a child with the new maid?

Overton: [the bankers have just walked into the foyer] Excuse me, have we come at a bad time?

David Sandborn: No, no, no! I'm just getting started here. Poor Roxanne. She thought I was an angel. You can't kill an angel!

Max Truemont: A demon, maybe.

David Sandborn: Ah! What's a demon but an angel who fell? Like you're gonna fall, Max. Don't look so sad, killer. You're on the winning team now. No commandments. No guilt.

[change of scene]

David Sandborn: I was sent for those that are desperate...

Man: You want me to wake up?... You'll never wake up!

[groans]

Man: Piece of...

David Sandborn: ...I come to them when they are weak. When their lives are hopeless. When those they love reject them.

[screams are heard]

David Sandborn: I come to them, whisper in their ear, and I can be very convincing.

Roxanne: [in a flashback] Max?

Max Truemont: Why David? Why all this?

David Sandborn: Casting for souls, Max. It's what I do.

Max Truemont: And me? What do I do?

David Sandborn: You're as weak as the rest them. So be a good boy, and put the gun to your head.

[whispering voices heard]

David Sandborn: Do it. Or hear my voice every moment of your life. It was a good game, Max.

Roxanne: There are two of you, don't you see? One that kills... and one that loves.

Roxanne: The war will still be here tomorrow.

[Redux version]

[after Roxanne asks if Willard will go back to America after the war and he replies no]

Roxanne: Then you are like us; your home is here.

Roxanne: Do you know why you can never step into the same river twice?

Willard: Yeah, 'cause it's always moving.

[last lines]

Cynthia Purley: Oh, this is the life, ain't it?

Roxanne, Hortense Cumerbatch: Yeah.

Cynthia: I can still turn a few heads...

Roxanne: ...and a few stomachs!

Roxanne: Don't be stupid.

Roxanne: I'm so full from olive... ahhh...