Gossip (I) (2000)

James Marsden: Derrick Webb

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• Derrick : [answering professor]  Gossip and news *are* the same thing, they've always been the same thing. People tell stories, that's what makes us human.

  Professor Goodwin : Come on Webb, connect the dots. Be clear...

  Derrick : People pass a bunch of stories around in a tribe and finally someone writes 'em down, and you have religion.

• Derrick : You were thinking, Oh my God, I can't believe I got raped by my boyfriend AGAIN! Only you didn't know that both times it was me.

• Derrick : Nice people don't live life. I don't wanna go through all my days being all sweet and polite and then realize, when I'm 80, that I'm just some nice dead person.

• Derrick : My friend, the sea is wide; there are many fish. Many, many fish.

• Derrick : What are they gonna say?

  Travis : It's just words.

• Jones : Derrick, Travis has a gun.

  Derrick : [with a gun to his head]  Thanks for the news flash.