Two for the Money (2005)
Rene Russo: Toni
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Quotes
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Walter Abrams : Wait a minute I just got an idea, it just came to me out of the blue, what about this? Brandon didn't tell me he was going to leave because you let him fuck you, you deny it?
Toni Morrow : Do I have to?
Walter Abrams : You know you did, I saw you Toni, I saw you and him that night I never went to Vegas
Toni Morrow : You mean you lied to me about the trip
Walter Abrams : Don't talk to me about lying
Toni Morrow : I guess you had the whole thing set up
Walter Abrams : Don't make this about me
Toni Morrow : You just put me out there on a tray?
Walter Abrams : I put a tray out there, you didn't have to sholve a fucking apple in your mouth and sit on it, admit it!
Toni Morrow : You played me
Walter Abrams : You have any idea? it worked didn't it?
Toni Morrow : Brandon was right
Walter Abrams : You don't deny it?
Toni Morrow : This is the best pick he ever made
Walter Abrams : I don't know what that means
Toni Morrow : You were gambling with me that night, Brandon knew it because he knew you, he told me he was sure you were watching somehow so he asked me to spend the night put on a show for you but I didn't believe him after all we've been through, so I figure what the hell, he slipped out the back no big deal he never even stayed here, you were in such a good the next day , I figured thank God he must've been wrong otherwise why wouldn't he confront us you wanted to lose like something you could toss on a table only we got you back Brandon and me who evidently love you more than you love yourself, your fantasy is to end alone with nothing, I won't let that happen I will never let that happen, this is all real you, and me and Julia we're all that's real
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Walter Abrams : [celebrating after Brandon went 20 for 20 in a single game, hugging each other] I've got to dance with you more
Toni Morrow : You do
Walter Abrams : I saw this house in the Bahamas, talk about an investment in case anyting should happen to me
Toni Morrow : I don't want to hear that
Walter Abrams : Why don't we go down there and check it out? just you and me, sit bare foot in the sand
Toni Morrow : Just tell me your not gambling
Walter Abrams : [they stop dancing] Eighteen years straight the shit's over
Toni Morrow : It's never over and you know that
Walter Abrams : How about a truth serum into the veins? Baby we just made two million dollars I want to celebrate with my wife I want to enjoy a dance
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Brandon Lang : [Brandon driving Toni to work] let me ask you a question, when you're not at the salon or bringing Julia to play dates or keeping Walter in line which I know is a full time job, what do you for you?
Toni Morrow : I stay busy
Brandon Lang : That's not what I asked what do you for you?
Toni Morrow : I was a junkie so every day I get up I wonder "is this the day? Is this the day i slip? End up back on the street?" just keeping it all on track that's what I do for me
Brandon Lang : Well that's not living that is maintaining, that's cashing in that's not living
Toni Morrow : What the hell does that mean? Are we talking "perfection" here?
Brandon Lang : I'm not talking "perfection" nobody's perfect except for me last weekend going 14-0
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Toni Morrow : [Referring to Walter, while dining at a fancy restaurant] He's gambling
Brandon Lang : Yeah
Toni Morrow : He's gambling I just can't believe it I never saw it coming I just couldn't stop it
Brandon Lang : I've got to win one more game
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Walter Abrams : [Sees Brandon's good bye letter on the dresser in his apartment] He left.
Toni Morrow : I know.
Walter Abrams : You didn't tell me? How about that? No "good bye", nothing.
Toni Morrow : I'm sure it's all there in the letter.
Walter Abrams : I'm sure it is but I wonder what's not in here.
Toni Morrow : What do you mean?
Walter Abrams : What do you mean? "What do I mean?"
Toni Morrow : He had enough he wanted his life back.
Walter Abrams : He said that to you?
Toni Morrow : Yeah, loud and clear by leaving.
Walter Abrams : I think there was something else.
Toni Morrow : Yeah, tell me.
Walter Abrams : You have no idea? I guess Brandon was home sick or maybe he had such deep feelings for me that he couldn't face saying good bye.
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Brandon Lang : [to Toni while gently holding her hand] Will you have dinner with me tonight?
Toni Morrow : I'm married to Walter.
Walter Abrams : Ooooo... bogey.
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Brandon Lang : [Referring to Walter's prerequisite of Brandon getting a pedicure and manicure in Toni's beauty salon] This was his idea?
Toni Morrow : Yeah I know.
Brandon Lang : He makes all of his employees do this?
Toni Morrow : Yeah every one of them.
Brandon Lang : How often?
Toni Morrow : Once before they start work.
Brandon Lang : Weird.
Toni Morrow : You think so?
Brandon Lang : I've never had my nails done before.
Toni Morrow : I can see that but you've got strong hand that's nice, do you drink?
Brandon Lang : [Surprised by her directness] excuse me?
Toni Morrow : Alcohol, are you a drinker?
Brandon Lang : I have a beer every once in a while.
Toni Morrow : Smoke?
Brandon Lang : No.
Toni Morrow : What about gambling?
Brandon Lang : What about it?
Toni Morrow : I'm sorry I'm just a little pressed for time here, I asked, do you bet? Are you a better?
Brandon Lang : No.
Toni Morrow : Really?Why not?
Brandon Lang : Are you here full time?
Toni Morrow : Yeah this is my shop I better be.
Toni Morrow : Why don't you gamble?
Brandon Lang : I did once, I wagered everything I had and I lost and when I lost and I swore I wouldn't do it again.
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Brandon Lang : [jokingly] I'm not going to start this relationship off by lying
Toni Morrow : That's good because Walter could definitely use someone with a little resolve in his life.
Brandon Lang : He told me I was coming down here to meet a nice lady...
Toni Morrow : I'm sure he did, that's ok I'm going to kill him when I get home. I mean he has a bright big beautiful spirit though and you will love working for him but he is held together by meetings if it has "Anonymous" at the end of the he goes he has to he also has to be very careful on who he lets into his life, in most ways Walter is brilliant but he can be bullshitted but I can't so he sends them to me before he hires them.
Brandon Lang : So this was my interview?
Toni Morrow : You're swift
Brandon Lang : How'd I do?
Toni Morrow : I would say perfect, congratulations
Brandon Lang : Thank you very much
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Walter Abrams : [referring to Brandon] This guy is a machine all he does is work out and pick winners talk about fit you should see him without his shirt off, serious sight of beef
Toni Morrow : Enjoy our daughter's birthday
Walter Abrams : You should check him out I know you want to
Toni Morrow : Get it out of your head it's a bad neighborhood
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Walter Abrams : [In a restaurant] Anyone who goes twenty for twenty four college football twelve for fourteen professional football,l a hundred and seventy five calls on the nine hundred number you can call "Bruschetta" whatever you want, you ever have a thousand bottle of wine?
Brandon Lang : No
Toni Morrow : It's a waste he hardly drinks
Walter Abrams : It's a celebration just because he's out with a couple of reformed drunks that doesn't mean he can't enjoy himself
Toni Morrow : I was a lot of things I never was a drunk
Brandon Lang : Actually truth be told I never had a twelve dollar bottle of water
Walter Abrams : He thinks we're fighting
Toni Morrow : Yeah he does
Brandon Lang : [Raises his glass to Toni and Walter] This is great, look, all of this thank you
Toni Morrow : [referring to Brandon, to Walter] Watch out he's a fixer, what'd the doctor say?
Walter Abrams : If you really want to know I've been meaning to tell you, I went yesterday he seemed very concerned, he sat me down and looked into my eyes and asked "who do you like in the Buffalo/Oakland game?
Brandon Lang : [laughing] You tell him Buffalo?
Walter Abrams : [to Toni] you haven't touched your sauce its chocolate I hear it's good for you
Toni Morrow : I'm not raising our kid alone
Walter Abrams : Don't be dramatic in Biblical times you'd move in with my brother Morty
Brandon Lang : [Sees Alexandria from across the room] I like her a lot I think she's extremely cute
Walter Abrams : "Beauty and the beasts" she's looking at you
Brandon Lang : So are those two guys she's with
Walter Abrams : I'll bet you ten to one on a thousand you can't pick her up that's ten thousand cash if you leave this restaurant with that girl
Toni Morrow : I got a better idea why we don't we just go to Atlantic City and open a house account? You know you can't gamble
Walter Abrams : Who's gambling? I haven't flipped a coin since the eighties this is just a challenge
Brandon Lang : Ten thousand, cash?
Walter Abrams : What are you going to do?
Brandon Lang : I'm going to introduce myself
Walter Abrams : "John Anthony" can "close" her.
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Walter Abrams : [while having dinner at Walter and Toni's home] I'm thinking putting "John Anthony" on TV this week if you do this, from here on out you're going to have to eat, sleep, breath, talk, walk and fart "John Anthony" that's the way it is there's no holding back you've got to be it or it doesn't work
Toni Morrow : That's right just think it over and don't decide now
Brandon Lang : If it's the only move, it means I've got to do a little acting I'm cool with that
Walter Abrams : No, no acting this is living you didn't hear me from here on out Brandon Lang and his fettuccine knee and self fucking pity is as flat dead as Donald trump's hair and John "I can walk on fucking water "Anthony has taken his place. I'm going to build an empire around you its going to cost me, do you understand what I'm saying?
Brandon Lang : Hell yeah I understand, I'm "John fucking Anthony" I've got a crystal ball
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Brandon Lang : [after losing another game] I'm finished
Walter Abrams : That's great to hear
Brandon Lang : I'm done, I don't eat, and I'm not sleeping
Walter Abrams : What are you trying to say? You've got a little indigestion and some insomnia and you're going to quit? A Hail Mary pass, these things happen
Brandon Lang : I'm telling you it's over, what use is this "John Anthony" to you? The streak he's been on?
Walter Abrams : forget this defeatist bullshit hot streaks go cold, cold streaks go hot, they know you went eighty percent for half a season and their going to remember as soon as you win a game then we go into March Madness baseball next year this time wouldn't even be a memory
Brandon Lang : Who ever said anything about next year?
Walter Abrams : [Toni walks in] You made a career choice and I bank rolled it
Toni Morrow : Let him go
Walter Abrams : Let him go? Of course you'd stick up for him
Toni Morrow : Meaning what?
Walter Abrams : I don't know, meaning whose side are you on?
Toni Morrow : I didn't realize I had to choose
Walter Abrams : [to Brandon] you're a champion, a champion goes down eighty six times his up on the eighty seventh. I'm not going to let you stay down besides this is not about you or you or me, it's about your gift, your gift transcends all this shit. Your gift is cosmic, its metaphysic, its eternal it is God. Besides we have a contract
Brandon Lang : Bullshit
Walter Abrams : Bullshit?
Toni Morrow : You can't own someone
Walter Abrams : [to Brandon] Who owns him? I created the greatest sports tout this country's ever seen. I hooked him up with every major client I built the fucking television show around him, I took out full page ads, I introduced him to the major clients of the world I did that, I hooked you up with everybody you think you're going to walk out that door and take that with you and leave me here holding the fucking sack? Bullshit
[to Toni]
Walter Abrams : I don't even know why I'm talking to you about this, what the hell does this have to do with you? You know this is between me and him, what are you doing in this office? Get out of here
Brandon Lang : Don't talk to her like that, this is between me and you
Walter Abrams : Yeah this is between me and you, you telling me how to talk to my wife? You shut your fucking toilet when I'm talking to her
Toni Morrow : [Escorting Brandon out of Walter's office] Leave, please just go, listen to me you son of a bitch don't you ever talk to me like that
Walter Abrams : I'm sorry
