Barfly (1987)

J.C. Quinn: Jim

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• Henry : This is a world where everybody's gotta do something. Y'know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody's gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that.

  Henry : [sighs]  Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do. All the things that I don't wanna be. Places I don't wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don't understand that.

  Jim : You're not supposed to think about it. I think the whole trick is, not to think about it.

• Henry : Some guys really know how to get the women.

  Jim : Now, you don't know how?

  Henry : Hey, I can get one for ten minutes. That's my limit.

• Jim : I say he's okay.

  Lilly : What's okay about him? He's like a wet rat in the rain. A rat without any teeth.

  Jim : Rat - hell. He refuses to join the rat race. He drinks and he waits.