Boys on the Side (1995)

Whoopi Goldberg: Jane

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Quotes 

• Jane : ...Do you miss it?

  Robin : What?

  Jane : Sex.

  Robin : Yeah, I do... You know what's weird? You never know the last time you sleep with somebody it's the last time. You're thinking: "Oh, we got problems, we got work to do," you know, but you never think... and then you break up and a month later you look back and you go: "Oh, that was it." That Tuesday or Friday or whenever, and you wished you paid attention because it was the last time... Well.

• Jane : You were gonna bring a baby into that house?

  Holly : Oh, like, what were my options?

  Jane : How about abortion?

  Holly : I couldn't do that. I'd feel like a murderer.

  Jane : Honey, you *are* a murderer.

• Massarelli, Prosecuting Attorney : One last time: are - you - gay?

  Jane : Yes - I - am.

  [Massarelli turns away, satisfied] 

  Jane : I bet a lot of women tell you that. But in my case, it happens to be true.

• Holly : Did I hurt him?

  Jane : What do you mean did you hurt him, you hit him with a bat!

• Jane : She's holding you back, man. Everyone says so. She's like Yoko with bangs.

• Jane : [Elaine is crying at Robin's bedside, the nurse thinks her sniffles are relative to a cold, and tells her she could aggravate her daughter's condition]  It's not a goddamn cold! Don't be such a hoo-hoo.

  Nurse : [apathetic]  And what's a hoo-hoo?

  Elaine : [kindly]  It's a cunt, dear.

  [nurse gasps] 

  Elaine : Now why don't you leave us alone?

• Robin : Don't you knock?

  Jane : Not in a public toilet, no.

• Jane : No, we're not taking drug money on the road with us. Put it back.

  Holly : Well, it's not like you can tell by looking at it.

  Jane : OK, you have a point: we'll just take half, all right? And we are not taking drugs on the road with us, either. So give them back.

  [Holly returns the stash] 

  Jane : Thank you.

  Holly : You're welcome.

• Jane : The farther away from that body I get, the happier I'll be.

• Holly : Oh, God. To think it's possible I killed my baby's daddy.

  Jane : "To think it's possible?" You hit him in the head with a baseball bat. He's dead.

  Holly : No, I mean, it's possible that Nick is the daddy.

• Jane : Why did you stay with this guy so long?

  Holly : [exhales heavily]  A lot of that back there was drugs, you know. They really fuck him up.

  Jane : But he's a really nice guy underneath?

  Holly : Well, I wouldn't go that far.

  [Jane laughs] 

• Robin : My mom always felt, you know, you can't trust women.

  Jane : I don't know about that.

  Robin : Oh come on, men know all about PMS. Somebody talked.

• Jane : I'm not after you.

  Robin : I'm not worried.

  [pause] 

  Robin : Why?

  Jane : Luck of the draw, I guess.

  Robin : No, I mean... why aren't you after me?

• [Jane and Abe ran to the neonatal ward] 

  Abe : [reading the tumbler tags]  Fristad. Mitchell. Pulchik.

  [Finds a black baby in the Pulchik tumbler; looks at Jane] 

  Jane : Don't look at me.

• Robin : I had a crush on a woman once. I was ten.

  Jane : That's when I had crushes on boys.

  Robin : She... she was a strawberry blonde. That's what my mom called her. She was the babysitter at a hotel we stayed at right before my dad went to Vietnam. She's beautiful. Strawberry blonde.

  Jane : I used to be strawberry blonde too.

  Robin : It was me you loved, wasn't it?

  Jane : Yeah. Still.

  Robin : I loved you too.