Affliction (1997)

Nick Nolte: Wade Whitehouse

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• Wade Whitehouse : Love? What the fuck do you know about love?

  Glen Whitehouse : Love? I'm made of love!

• Rolfe Whitehouse : I was always careful around Pop. I was a careful child. And I'm a careful adult. But at least I was never afflicted with that man's anger.

  Wade Whitehouse : That's what you think.

• Rolfe Whitehouse : But at least I was never afflicted by that man's violence.

  Wade Whitehouse : That's what *you* think.

• Lillian Whitehouse Horner : God, you make me sick.

  Wade Whitehouse : What?

  Lillian Whitehouse Horner : I can't believe you would you sink this low.

  Wade Whitehouse : Low as what? What have I done?

  Lillian Whitehouse Horner : Your lawyer called.

  Wade Whitehouse : Yeah. Is it bad to want to see your own daughter?

• Wade Whitehouse : It's not funny now. I'm a cop and I gotta listen to all the complaints people make. I'm not a kid anymore. You change.

  Jill : I bet you did lots of bad things.

  Wade Whitehouse : What are you talking about?

  Jill : I just think you used to be bad.

  Wade Whitehouse : No. I didn't used to be bad. No sir. Where do you get this stuff? From your mother?

  Jill : No. She doesn't talk about you anymore.

• Wade Whitehouse : You need me. Even pop for God's sake he needs me! This *town* needs me!

• Wade Whitehouse : You know I get the feeling like a whipped dog some days. Some night I'm gonna bite back, I swear!

• Wade Whitehouse : I think there's some dirty business going on in this town.

• Wade Whitehouse : I'm free of you. You're not on my back anymore. You see how easy it is?

• Wade Whitehouse : He's a lot like me when I was his age.

  Margie Fogg : You wouldn't have done anything like that. Shoot somebody.

• Jill : I wanna go home.

  Wade Whitehouse : Home? Jill, you *are* home.

• Wade Whitehouse : You know she won't be here for a half hour. You think you can stand it here that long?

• Wade Whitehouse : If you ever touch her again, I'll kill you! I swear it!

  Glen Whitehouse : [Leers]  Still standing up for your little brother huh?

• Wade Whitehouse : Lillian, listen to me. I don't want her to go.

  Lillian Whitehouse Horner : Please don't make a scene. I am not trying- nobody is trying to win a round, so don't make it any worse than it is!

  Wade Whitehouse : Well I'm not making it any worse, you are!

• Rolfe Whitehouse : Who else benefits if Twombley is suddenly dead?

  Wade Whitehouse : [after a pause]  I don't know. You tell me.

  Rolfe Whitehouse : Okay. It's likely there are people in the union who don't want Twombley to testify. That probably includes his son-in-law, who's vice president, and will probably be the next president.