Simple Men (1992)

Bill Sage: Dennis McCabe

Quotes 

• Elina : [after Dennis kisses her]  You shouldn't do that.

  Dennis McCabe : Why not?

  Elina : Because I'm your father's girlfriend?

  Dennis McCabe : My father's a womanizer. He's a married man and he stood you up.

  Elina : You have no respect for your father.

  Dennis McCabe : I don't know him. But I respect his taste in women.

  Elina : So then go make love to your mother.

• Dennis McCabe : I've never been to Long Island.

  Bill McCabe : Yes you have.

  Dennis McCabe : I have?

  Bill McCabe : Yeah. You've been to Queens. Queens is Long Island.

  Dennis McCabe : Queens is a part of New York City. I don't think it's really considered part of Long Island.

  Bill McCabe : It's part of New York City, but it's on Long Island.

  Dennis McCabe : Queens is a borough.

  Bill McCabe : A borough, on Long Island.

  Dennis McCabe : A borough of New York City.

  Bill McCabe : Right.

  Dennis McCabe : Long Island's a terminal moraine.

  Bill McCabe : A what?

  Dennis McCabe : A terminal moraine. It's the earth that's deposited by a receding glacier.

  Bill McCabe : Well, shit, what are we waiting for, huh? Come on.

• Bill McCabe : Look Dennis, the difference between dad and me is that I just fuck with the law; he fucked with the government.

  Dennis McCabe : The law and the government are the same thing.

  Bill McCabe : No, it isn't. Government doesn't have to obey the law.

  Dennis McCabe : O, maybe that's not the way things should be.

  Bill McCabe : Who wants the fucking government that's got to obey the law.

  Dennis McCabe : A lot of people do.

  Bill McCabe : Yeah, well that's why a lot of people aren't running this country.

• Bill McCabe : Look, you'll take care of that motorcycle, will ya?

  Dennis McCabe : Fuck you, I wanna play pool.

  Bill McCabe : You don't play pool, you shoot pool.

• Dennis McCabe : I know he's a man of his word. I know he believes in things.

  Elina : He's a womanizer.

  Dennis McCabe : Yea, well, ah, he wouldn't leave a woman as attractive as yourself behind.

  Elina : You're a womanizer too, then.