Rude Awakening (1998–2001)

Sherilyn Fenn: Billie Frank

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• Billie Frank : Irish Coffee, easy on the coffee!

• Billie Frank : Last night, I think I slept with a woman.

• Billie Frank : I think that we should do something that makes us feel better.

  Dave Parelli : What is there besides sex?

  Billie Frank : Häagen-Dazs!

• Billie Frank : Apparently God has chosen to punish me by making me work for someone who actually wants me to work.

• Billie : The first picture of me in my family album, I'm two days old and my mother's breast-feeding the doctor.

• Billie Frank : How do I know you don't badmouth me to your friends when I'm not there?

  Trudy Frank : Because, darling, when you're not here I forget all about you.

• Billie Frank : Mom, with you in A.A., are you sure it's a good idea to *drink*?

  Trudy Frank : Don't be ridiculous darling, it's always a good idea to drink.

• Billie Frank : Mother, I'm in A.A. for real. I go every day. It's not a hobby, it's not a place to pick up guys - most of the time. I'm struggling with sobriety. You haven't even *met* sobriety.

• Billie Frank : Hi, I'm Billie, but all my friends call me "Oh Crap, Here Comes Billie."

• Dave : I like the sound the glass makes when the bartender puts it on the counter. I like the way it feels in my hand. I bring it in close, and I can smell it, and a wave of relief goes through my body even before I take the first sip.

  Billie : You're slow. I'd be on my third one by now.

• Billie : Why should you get what you want when I can't get what I want?

  Dave : Because life is unfair and I'm really horny.

• Billie Frank : Alright, alright, I admit it. I'm a fiscally irresponsible, emotionally unstable, former drunk. But that shouldn't *no way* prejudice your decision to maybe, you know, hopefully give me an advance?

  Sidney Gibson : An advance? You don't earn the money I pay you.

• Billie : May I confide in you as a friend?

  Sidney Gibson : No.

  Billie : Fine. Then as an acquaintance.

  [she sighs and sits] 

  Billie : You know, lately, my life has been really crappy. Yeah... haven't had sex in over months, my landlord is raising my rents!

  Sidney Gibson : So sleep with him.

• Billie : [asking for an advance]  Hey, Siddy Sid Sid... you're like the mother I never had.

  Sidney Gibson : Forget it.

  Billie : Now you're like the mother I have.

• Trudy Frank : A drink without liquor? Oh, what's the point?

  Billie Frank : How about, driving your car legally, or maybe remembering your name... Or, not pursuing a liver at the age of fifty.

  Trudy Frank : Fifty? I beat the odds.

• Trudy : Because of me, you lived here, rent-free, for years.

  Billie : Mother, I was a child!

  Trudy : An ungrateful one.

• Sidney Gibson : [about the new web page Billie's supposed to take care of]  Are we on the internet yet?

  Billie Frank : Didn't you hear the internet's closed today?

• Billie Frank : Come on Dave, please, I need your help, I'm begging you, and I don't usually beg! Well, not with my clothes on, anyway.

• Billie : Carl, what if I told you I was really drunk last night and... the only reason I slept with you is because, well, I don't know why I slept with you, *but* it's never gonna happen again.