For the Boys (1991)

Bette Midler: Dixie Leonard

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Quotes 

• [On stage during a power outage] 

  Dixie : Well... alone in the dark with thousands of men. There is a God after all!

• Dixie : Mind if I smoke?

  Eddie : I don't care if you burn.

  Dixie : What a prince.

• [to the soldiers in Vietnam] 

  Dixie : Shut the fuck up. It's Christmastime. I'm gonna sing you a little song.

• Dixie : The thing you wanna avoid is outlasting everybody. Can you remember that?

• Eddie : Just relax and follow my lead.

  Dixie : Yeah. Right off a cliff.

• Eddie : What? we're short... oh time. Two minutes time. Well, Dixie do you have any ideas of what we can do in two minutes?

  Dixie : Not unless your part rabbit.

• Dixie : [Appearing on stage late]  So sorry.

  [British accent] 

  Dixie : A little trouble over the channel you know, old pip.

  Eddie : Really.

  Dixie : Righto. We were halfway to Belgium when we ran out of... gas, I believe you call it.

  Eddie : That's funny. You don't look like you'd ever run out of gas.

  Dixie : Are you trying to get into my flak suit, honey?

  Eddie : I'm just trying to debrief you. So a plane without any gas. What did you do?

  Dixie : Do?

  Eddie : Yeah. Do. You know to keep up morale and all that.

  Dixie : Well... well... my co-pilot... lovely young boy but terrified, half out of his wits. You know, nervous. Terrified. I said to him, "This one's going to take a long... hard... pull." So I did! For two hours!

  Eddie : Two hours alone with you? That boy deserves a purple heart.

  Dixie : Well, it was purple, alright, but I don't think it was his heart!

• Dixie : You're gonna kill him you fill his head full of this crap!

  Eddie : Such as what?

  Dixie : Such as "Don't study," "Everything comes easy," "Life's a big party."

  Eddie : Oh, well, sounds good to me.

  Dixie : Oh yeah? You got three daughters. Why don't you give them the benefit of your wisdom?

  Eddie : Because my wisdom is for a son. I got a closet full of baseball cards...

  Dixie : Don't break my heart!

  Eddie : Alright. How long's it now been - eight years Michael's dead?

  Dixie : You shut up!

  Eddie : No. You let me talk. Now enough is enough here. That boy needs a father. He needs a man in his life - somebody he can talk to, somebody who can teach him, somebody who can show him.

  Dixie : What? How to screw the chorus girls?

  Eddie : Yeah, why not if he wants to... yeah, why not! That's life! Hey, I wish somebody was there to teach me how to kiss 'em, how to talk to 'em - how to jack off!

  Dixie : What did you say?

  Eddie : That's right, lady! Who's gonna tell him it's alright - that his thing won't fall off - his mother? Why don't you put a dress on him and forget about it?

  Dixie : I would, but then you'd probably make a pass at him!

• Eddie : You know...for an old broad, you're still pretty sexy.

  Dixie : How would you know?

  Eddie : Well, I think I'm getting excited.

  Dixie : Let me know when you're sure.

• Eddie : Hey, Dixie, they gave me a big suite upstairs.

  Dixie : Really?

  Eddie : Oh yeah. And I got a big king-size bed.

  Dixie : You wanna lie down, Eddie?

  Eddie : Is that an offer?

  Dixie : It's a recommendation.

• Eddie : Look at this. I'm 91 years old. 50 years I've been waiting for this chance. Dixie, please let's go upstairs.

  Dixie : What, to your room?

  Eddie : Yeah.

  Dixie : And then we get undressed?

  Eddie : Yeah.

  Dixie : And then we get into bed?

  Eddie : Yeah.

  Dixie : And then what?

• [Performing a skit for a television show] 

  Dixie : You know, that son of ours is really something.

  Eddie : Why? What happened?

  Dixie : While I'm tucking him in bed last night, he suddenly says to me, "Mommy, is kissing dirty?"

  Eddie : Yeah? What'd you tell him?

  Dixie : I said to him, "Darling, sex between two people can be a beautiful thing."

  Eddie : Oh, yeah.

  Dixie : "But between four people... fantastic!"

• Dixie : America the land of the fee.