Lost River (2014)

Ben Mendelsohn: Dave

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Quotes 

• [Billy joins Dave at the table to his Big Bad Wolf Club] 

  Billy : I don't really know what it is, but I like it.

  Dave : Well, it's a place for people to get wild for the night. Fuck being polite.

• [Dave gives Billy a piece of advice] 

  Dave : The wolves... if they're not already at your door... they're gonna be there very fucking soon. Pardon my French.

• [Dave hands Billy a business card to a job offer] 

  Billy : What's this?

  Dave : It's a job.

  Billy : And where is that?

  Dave : Well, it's... closer than somewhere over the rainbow. Let's put it that way. I think you'll like it.

• [Dave tells Billy she needs to do what she needs to do] 

  Dave : Now, I don't know what you can do, but you want to have a think about that very seriously. What you can do, what you're willing to do. And you're a very beautiful lady, and I don't care what you do. I'm not what I do. It's not who I am. Everyone's gotta do the Shimmy-Shimmy-Ya. You know, I got my little hustle. It's not who I fucking am. Believe me.

• [Dave sings on stage at his club] 

  Dave : [Dave singing]  All day I've faced the barren waste, without a taste of water / Cool water / Old Dan and I, with throats burned dry and so-o-uls that cry / For water / Cool... Clear... Water / Keep on movin', Dan, don't you listen to him, Dan / He's a devil, not a man / He spreads the burning sand with water / Dan, can you see that big, green tree / Where the water's running free, and it's waiting there for me and you / Co-o-o-l... Cle-e-e-ar... Water / Keep on movin', Dan, don't you listen to him, Dan / He's a devil, not a man / He spreads the burning sand with water / Dan, can you see that big, green tree / Where the water's running free, and it's waiting there for me and you / Co-o-o-l... Cle-e-e-ar... Water... Water... Cool... Clear... Water.

  Dave : I need a drink after that one.

  MC : [Dave walks off stage]  By the way, he's also available for children's parties.

• [Billy meets Dave, telling him of her financial situation] 

  Billy : Carl talked me into this loan. He told me that, um, he could get me into my grandmother's house for nothing and that I shouldn't be paying someone else's mortgage, and he didn't explain it to me, and I never understood it. And then a couple years later, the rates changed entirely, and I... he didn't explain...

  Dave : [Dave cuts Billy off]  Can I... Can I just... Can I just cut across you for a moment there, please? Listen... I, I am all ears, but you're gonna have to talk up a little bit, 'cause I am very deaf. This happens to be my good ear here, but all I heard then was, 'Mah, bluh, buh, blah, blah, blah, bluh, blah.' So, just... Whatever it was you just said, please, just a little louder. I can't quite hear it.

• [Dave tells Billy the financial situation she's in] 

  Dave : Okay, Billy. We are in the middle of a very tight fiscal knot, and it's squeezing, and you are right in the middle of it. Now, you could pay your three months. You can walk away with some money. You could pay your three months and then pay more and more, and you can keep the house...

  Billy : So I can?

  Dave : If that's really what you wanna do. But, what can you do? What sort of work do you do?

  Dave : [Billy doesn't reply]  Well, that doesn't sound promising.

• [Billy tells Dave why she wants to keep her house] 

  Billy : I have two boys, and that is our home, and... and I grew up in that home, and that is our home.

  Dave : Look, I can make a note for you, right? I can write a fucking novel. But at the end of the day, you're gonna have to come up with some of this.

  [Dave makes the motion of cash with his fingertips] 

• [Billy tells Dave her problem with the Shells as he tells her his problem is sex] 

  Dave : You've seen the Shells, right?

  Billy : Yeah. I'm a little claustrophobic, though, so I might have a problem. I'm not sure.

  Dave : Yeah, well, I have a problem, too, you know? I like to fuck. That's my problem. And when I meet a bad bitch, it drives me crazy. Now, really, really... think about it.