St. Elmo's Fire 1985 quotes

Leslie

Alec was the first. You know? I mean, there were other guys for me in high school. Boys. Alec was the first love of my life. I sometimes wonder if we hadn't ended up in the same room… I would have just met someone else. So would he.

Kevin

Alec had the luck of geography, right? Whatever we say about him, we'll regret tomorrow.

Leslie

Tell me something. What do you think about my relationship with you as an outsider? I want you to be honest. Really.

Kevin

You want me to be honest?

Leslie

I don't know. Guess.

Kevin

Dangerous question. Well, I think I hang around with you so much, personally because, well, you're all I think about.

Leslie

Me?

Kevin

And I think the reason I'm not interested in other women, and why I haven't had sex in so long, is because I'm desperately, completely in love with you. We won't even remember this tomorrow, huh?

Leslie

It is tomorrow.

Kevin

Oh, I love you! I've always loved you! [Leslie pulls his hair] Ow!

Leslie

Sorry.

Kevin

No, no, I love it! I love it!

Alec

Jules, what are you doing? You're gonna freeze to death.

Kevin

I think that's the idea.

Alec

You ran out on this relationship, you take the consequences.

Leslie

I didn't run out on anything. You ran out.

Alec

You had sex with Kevin.

Leslie

You had sex with many!

Alec

Nameless, faceless many.

Leslie

I feel much better now. Thanks.

Jules

Don't you enjoy anything anymore... like girls?

Kevin

I enjoy being afraid of Russia. It's a harmless fear, but it makes America feel better, Russia gets an inflated sense of national worth from our paranoia. How's that?

Jules

I thought you were taking steps to phase out everything that wasn't working in your life.

Wendy

That doesn't leave much.

Kevin

Marriage is a concept invented by people who were lucky to make it to 20 without being eaten by dinosaurs. Marriage is obsolete.

Alec

Dinosaurs are obsolete. Marriage is still around.

Kevin

Well, you're all I think about.

Leslie

Me?

Kevin

And I think the reason I'm not interested in other women, and why I haven't had sex in so long, is because I'm desperately, completely in love with you.

I always thought we'd be friends forever.

Kevin

Yeah, well forever got a lot shorter all of a sudden.

It's true love, my friend.

Kevin

Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers.

You are just pissed off and bitter because you have not had sex in... how long? What is it... a year... maybe two? Refresh my memory please, Kevin. Haven't you heard of the sexual revolution?

Kevin

Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony... palimony... it's all financial. Love is an illusion.

It's the only illusion that counts, my friend.

Kevin

Says who?

Anyone who's been in love.

Kevin

Love sucks.

So does your attitude.

Leslie

How's Howie?

Wendy

Oh well, I wouldn't say my father's trying to bribe me, but he did offer me a Chrysler Lebaron convertible if I get engaged to Howie.

Jules

Have you had sex with him yet?

Wendy

Jules!... God.

Jules

Listen... get the car, **** him, and if you don't like him, break the engagement... And then you can still have sex with him.

Leslie

I'm sorry to bother you here.

Alec

Did you forget one of your albums?

Leslie

It's Jules. After she left, for work this morning, some finance company came. They took away her furniture, her Jeep, everything. I tried to reach her but, I couldn't get through so, I went into her office. She's been pretending, to go to work every day, telling me she still, has an affair with her boss. Alec, he fired her three weeks ago. So, I confronted her, at first she denied everything and, she went crazy. She locked me out of the apartment, and she won't let me back in. Alec please, I need your help.

Wendy

We're really worried about this affair with your boss.

Jules

I don't know why you're both so worried... So, I bop him for a couple of years, get his job when he gets his hands caught in the vault, do a black mink ad, retire in utter disgrace, then write a best seller and be a fabulous host on my own talk show...

She is the only evidence of God I have seen with the exception of the mysterious force that removes one sock from the dryer every time I do my laundry.

It turns out cremation costs just as much as the non-torching method. If I don't come up with a cheaper solution, I'm gonna end up a bag lady. Of course, I'll have alligator bags.