Michael quotes from Cool and the Crazy‎ (1994)

Lorraine

So, how's it going over in Burbank with you guys?
Michael': Well, it got real exciting one night - Sullivan had Presley on. It could be worse... I guess.
Lorraine': Well, Michael, hardly any of my friends - probably none -were married at 18 and had a kid at 19. That's got to be hard.

Michael

You live with those sick beatniks in Venice. Most of my friends who grew up with me are married. That's how we all became men.

Lorraine

We're not sick. We're just horny.

Michael

Well, maybe I'll come and visit you one day... if you promise me that you won't play that record.

Lorraine

You don't like Chet Baker?

Michael

I don't understand it. It has no beat. I mean, how do you dance to it?

Lorraine

Try listening to the feelings, Michael.

Michael

Hello?

Joey

I'm gonna take her clothes off real slow... till she's begging for it. And then I'm only going to give it to her... when she admits that you're a piece of shit -
[Michael hangs the phone up]

Michael

What kind of dinner is that?

Lorraine

Expensive.

Michael

What are you doing?

Lorraine

I'm going to New York to open a whorehouse, Michael.

Michael

Look, Lorraine, I'm sorry. I didn't mean what I said before.

Lorraine

I know you didn't, Michael. But I'm going to New York with Jack. It got too stuffy here.

Michael

I don't get it, Lorraine.

Lorraine

You really want to know?

Michael

Yeah.

Lorraine

You've got these rules, Michael... but whose rules are they? Whose dream are you buying into? You've been angry for so long you don't even know it. We're all scared... but somehow we don't believe that babies, TV sets, two-car garages and McCarthy are going to make us happy. You think Roslyn did something wrong. Maybe in your world she did, but in our world she's just fighting for some sort of freedom - freedom from slavery she can't even explain. Don't you see, Michael? Life is not wall-to-wall carpeting with half down and the rest of your life to pay. You and I had a good time, some tenderness... but you can't even enjoy it because somewhere in your mind it was dirty... un-American. Figure out what you want, Michael. I'm not sure time is on your side. At any rate... adios. I'll send you the bill.