Dazed and Confused (1993)

Adam Goldberg: Mike Newhouse

Photos 

Quotes 

• Tony : So, you're not gonna go to law school? What do you wanna do then?

  Mike : I wanna dance!

• Mike : Don't air raid for that bitch, I hate that shit. It's like that Clint fucker in front of all his friends. Huh? Huh mother fucker.

  Tony : Okay Mike.

  Mike : Dominant male monkey mother fucker.

• Cynthia : God, don't you ever feel like everything we do and everything we've been taught is just to service the future?

  Tony : Yeah I know, like it's all preparation.

  Cynthia : Right. But what are we preparing ourselves for?

  Mike : Death.

  Tony : Life of the party.

  Mike : It's true.

  Cynthia : You know, but that's valid because if we are all gonna die anyway shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

• Mike : It's what everybody in this car needs is some good ol' worthwhile visceral experience.

• Tony : [Wooderson has just driven off after hitting on Cynthia]  God, that was so creepy!

  Mike : Wait, why are you smiling?

  Cynthia : [shrugs]  I thought he was cute.

  Tony : Ugh, that's disgusting!

  Mike : You thought he was cute? Do you realize when he graduated we were like three years old?

• Tony : [to Sabrina about the hazing]  We were just discussing the utter stupidity of these initiation rituals, and we were wondering how someone such as you would subject themselves to the losing end of it all.

  Jodi : What are we, having social hour over here? You're supposed to be being a bitch.

  Mike : [after Jodi takes Sabrina away]  Am I mistaken or was there some unspoken thing between you and that young vixen... you stud.

  Tony : Well you know how it is.

  Mike : Yeah, I bet she's pretty cute once you clean all the shit off her.

  Tony : Yeah I bet she is.

• Pickford : [mockingly, to Mike and Tony]  Woodward, Bernstein.

  Mike : Guess that makes you Deep Throat.

• Tony : [describing his dream]  So there I am, getting it on with this perfect female body and...

  Mike : What?

  Tony : I can't say.

  Mike : No, you can't give a build-up like that and not deliver. You know, a perfect female body, it's not a bad start.

  Tony : But with the head of Abraham Lincoln. With the hat and the beard, everything.

• Clint : What did you just say?

  Mike : What?

  Clint : Just now, man. When you walked past, what'd you say?

  Mike : About what?

  Clint : You said, "Someone's tokin' some reefer."

  Mike : No, I meant somewhere I smell some pot, you know? It was just an observation.

  Clint : Oh, an observation, huh? Well who the hell are you, man? Isaac fucking Newton?

• Mike : I'm just trying to be honest about being a misanthrope.

• Jodi : Ask Tony to marry you.

  Sabrina Davis : Will you marry me?

  Tony : Oh god, what am I supposed to say?

  Mike : I dont know.

  Tony : Uh, whadda ya do for me?

  Sabrina Davis : Umm, anything you like.

  Tony : [turns to Mike]  Imagine the possibilities.

• Mike : Look, I've got a confession to make.

  Tony : What do you mean a confession?

  Mike : You know how for like the last year or so I've been talking about going to law school so I can become a ACLU lawyer to be in a position to help people getting............... .ed over and all that? Well I'm standing in line at the post office yesterday you know, and I'm looking around and everybody's looking really pathetic you know what I mean. Like people have just got drool sticking there, and like this guy's bending over and you can see the crack of his... It was all just like wife beaters, it was.. Anyway. I realise that I just don't want to do it. You know what I mean it sounds good and all but I just have to confront the fact that I really don't like the people I've been talking about helping out. You know what I'm saying. I don't like people period. I mean you guys are okay. I don't know. I'm just trying to be honest about being a misanthrope.

  Tony : So you're not going to law school? What do you want to do?

  Mike : I wanna dance.

• Mike : [after the fight with Clint]  I got some good ones in there, right? I mean, you wouldn't say I got my ass kicked, would you?

  Cynthia : Oh no, I mean, after a few years, no one will even remember really, who won or lost.

  Mike : Right, like when you read about Hemingway and those guys, no one ever talks about who won, just they got in a brawl.

• Mike : I didn't think drugs and alchohol were such a big deal they had to resort to Neo-McCarthyism to get rid of it.

  Pink : I think they're just worried that some of us are having too good a time.

• Mike : I feel like I'm being stalked by a Nazi.

• Mike : Somebody's toking some reefer.

  Clint : Hey, what you say back there.

  Mike : Just smelt some pot.

• Clint : You said somebody's toking some reefer.

  Mike : Just an observation.

• Wooderson : Say, you need a ride?

  Cynthia : I got my own ride. Thanks.

  Wooderson : Yeah you know. Because you oughta dump those two geeks you got in the car with you and ride with us but that's okay. I'll see you there.

  Cynthia : Okay.

  [smiles as Wooderson drives off] 

  Mike : Oh man! What a dick!

  Tony : [sees Cynthia smiling]  What are you smiling at?

  Cynthia : I thought he was cute.

  Mike : What? Do you realize when he graduated high school, we were like three years old?