A character in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Dwayne quotes from Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Paul Dano

4th most-quoted character in Little Miss Sunshine (2006): in 12 of its 57 quotes
Most scenes with: Frank (3)

A line from Dwayne

Divorce?! Bankruptcy?! Suicide?!! You guys are **** losers!!

More lines from Dwayne

6 quotes
Dwayne
(Writes)

: Go Hug Mom. (when Sheryl is crying)

Dwayne
[after finding out that he is color blind and cannot fly planes]

Fu-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-ck!!!! [his first words in the movie]

Dwayne

You know what? **** beauty contests. Life is one **** beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work... **** that. And **** the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and **** the rest.

Scenes with Dwayne

5 scenes
[going over eye test pamphlets]

Mom, Dwayne's got 20/20 vision!

I bet he does.

Now, let's see if you're colorblind.

[Olive opens the pamphlet]

What's the letter in the circle?

[Dwayne looks confused]

The letter in the circle?

Can you see a letter, Dwayne?

It's an "A". See? Right there?

It's bright green.

[Dwayne scribbles anxiously on his notepad "What?"]

Dwayne, I think you might be colorblind.

[pause, Dwayne holds up his notepad again]

You can't fly jets if you're colorblind.

Dwayne
[Dwayne immediately falls into an emotional breakdown; Frank, Olive and Sheryl all yell for Richard to pull over the vehicle; Dwayne springs from the stopped van into an empty field] [yelling]

****!!!!!! ****!!!!! [he collapses, screaming and sobbing, after breaking his nine-month vow of silence]

What happened?

He's colorblind. He can't fly.

Oh, Jesus. Oh, no. [waits several moments, then approaches Dwayne] Dwayne? Dwayne, honey, I'm sorry. Dwayne, come on. We have to go.

Dwayne

I'm not going.

Dwayne.

Dwayne

I said I'm not, okay? I don't care, I'm not getting on that bus again.

Dwayne, for better or worse, we're your family.

Dwayne
[stands up]

No, you're not my family, okay? I don't want to be your family! I hate you **** people! I hate you! [points to Sheryl, Richard, and Frank as he shouts] Divorce, bankrupt, suicide?! You're **** losers! You are losers!

[whispers]

Dwayne.

Dwayne
[begins to cry again]

No, please just leave me here, Mom. Okay? Please, please. Please just leave me here.

Dwayne

I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all of this, high school, everything.

Do you know who Marcel Proust is?

Dwayne

He's the guy you teach.

Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he, uh, he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18-- ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-- those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that.

Pageant Assistant Pam
[Dwayne walks swiftly by]

Are you authorized to be backstage?

Dwayne
[emotionless, without stopping]

No.

Dwayne

Hey, where are the dressing rooms?

Contestant

Are you even allowed back here?

Dwayne

Just tell me where the dressing rooms are!

Do you want to go back?

Dwayne

Not really. [long pause] Yeah, we should go back.

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