Tom Platt Quotes in The Last Days of Disco (1998)

Tom Platt: Actually, there's one theory that the environmental movement of our day was sparked by the rerelease of Bambi in the late 1950s.

Alice Kinnon: If when making love, the man... *spurts*... outside the woman, does that count as sexual intercourse?

Tom Platt: "Spurts"?

Alice Kinnon: If it... *squirts* outside, without getting in... does that count as losing your virginity?

Tom Platt: No part of the man got in at any time?

Alice Kinnon: I don't think so.

Tom Platt: I think part has to get in to be considered sexual intercourse.

Alice Kinnon: So then I was a virgin.

Tom Platt: Why is it that when people have sex with strangers on their mind their IQ just drops like 40 points?

Josh Neff: I was just starting law school when the first uptempo Philadelphia International hits broke out. Some people don't consider that disco because its good. But, I remember feeling absolutely - electrified.

Tom Platt: You feel electrified often.

Josh Neff: No, but this was different. I love the idea that there'd be all these great places for people to go dancing after the terrible social wasteland of our college years.

Tom Platt: You've been to a lot of discos?

Josh Neff: No. In fact, practically none. For me, law school wasn't easy and I haven't had much of a social life since coming to the City, either. But, I still consider myself a loyal adherent to the disco movement.

Tom Platt: It's a movement?

Tom Platt: This is supposed to be good for cigarette mouth. Do you smoke?

Alice Kinnon: When I drink or go out at night, I smoke. I live dangerously - on the edge. I'm no kindergarten teacher.