Something Wild (1986)

Jeff Daniels: Charles Driggs

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• Charlie Driggs : Look, if you don't turn around and take me back, you're gonna make me do something that I don't wanna do.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : [grins]  I can hardly wait, Charlie.

• Charlie Driggs : What are you doing?

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : I'm setting you free.

  Charlie Driggs : Maybe I don't want to be free.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Maybe you're not.

• Charlie Driggs : You were right. I'm a rebel. I am! I just channelled my rebellion into the mainstream.

• Irene : I'm Irene; I don't believe in name tags.

  Charlie Driggs : Oh. Hi. Ah...

  [points at his name tag] 

  Charlie Driggs : Charlie. I never had many concrete convictions about 'em one way or another.

• Nelson : You really oughta see someone about that nose.

  Charlie Driggs : Broken nose ain't gonna kill ya, Nelson.

• Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : I hate you!

  Ray Sinclair : [Screaming]  I hate you, too!

  Charlie Driggs : Lulu!

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Charlie!

• Charlie Driggs : I may look straight, but deep down, I got what it takes.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Do you?

• Charlie Driggs : Oh, that's my telepager. I gotta call the office.

• Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Ch-Ch-Charlie.

  [pulls out handcuffs] 

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : You game?

  Charlie Driggs : You're a funny girl.

• Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : What are you gonna do now you've seen how the other half lives?

  Charlie Driggs : The other half?

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : The other half of you.

• Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Are you afraid of me, Charlie?

  Charlie Driggs : I'm not afraid of you.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Let me see 'em.

  Charlie Driggs : All right, if you want to.

• Charlie Driggs : What are you doing? You're crazy. You're crazy. You really know that? Oh, God! I gotta go to work. I got - I got meetings. I got a million phone calls.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, relax, Charlie. Come on. Take the afternoon off. *You* deserve it. Really.

  Charlie Driggs : I - I can't just take the afternoon off. What, are you n - nuts? All right, look, let's a, let's a, I tell you what, you turn around when we get out of the tunnel. Let's just go back. This isn't funny.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Want a drink?

  Charlie Driggs : Let's just - no! Don't! God, don't drink! Please, this is dangerous. This is dangerous. Don't do that. God, don't.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Oo-oo-oo-oo.

  [takes another drink] 

• Charlie Driggs : I just want you to know that l've, uh, I've never done anything like this before.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Don't worry, Charlie. I have.

• Charlie Driggs : Well, okay, fine. That's no problem, Rose. I'll take care of that lickety-split.

• Charlie Driggs : Where are you going?

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Pennsylvania, back to where l grew up.

  Charlie Driggs : Oh, really? lt's hard to imagine you growing up.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : What, you think l was born like this?

• Charlie Driggs , Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : [singing]  Wild thing! You make my heart sing, You make everything, Groovy, Wild thing! Wild thing, I think I love you, But, I want to know for sure

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Come on, hold me *tight*...

• Charlie Driggs : Oh, God, l'm sorry.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Don't be sorry. I'm not sorry.

• Charlie Driggs : Lulu, look, uh, God, you're a great girl. You got a few problems, but you're a great girl. And you're loaded with potential. But you're just too much for me. I can't handle this.

• Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Ladies, what do you think?

  Charlie Driggs : No.

  Junk Store Gal : Very nice.

  Charlie Driggs : Oh, God!

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Let me ask you this, if you were my mother and l brought this guy home as my husband - what would you think?

  Junk Store Gal : Very nice. But - l'd get rid of those handcuffs, if l were you.

• Ray Sinclair : l'll drive, Charlie! Hey, Charlie.

  Charlie Driggs : Yeah?

  Ray Sinclair : How do you like this baby?

  Charlie Driggs : Oh, God, it's a beauty, Ray.

  Ray Sinclair : Yeah. They don't make 'em like this any more.

  Charlie Driggs : Oh, boy, this baby travels.

  Ray Sinclair : What do you drive?

  Charlie Driggs : I, uh, a Ford station wagon.

• Ray Sinclair : Audrey was a little wild in high school.

  Charlie Driggs : Oh, well, yes, l can believe that!

• Charlie Driggs : I guess I still wear the ring around because l hate to admit that my family fell apart. I told you l was married to protect myself. And then l was afraid that if l said, "Guess what, I'm not really married," you'd take off.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : You're right, asshole! I would've.

  Charlie Driggs : Well, you were lying a blue streak to me too.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : Exactly.

• The Girl in 3F : l think the landlord is screwing me.

  Charlie Driggs : Yeah, well, it wouldn't surprise me.

• Charlie Driggs : You never said goodbye.

  Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel : I never wanted to say goodbye.

• [Ray smashes the glass door with a chair, enters] 

  Ray Sinclair : Hiya, Charlie.

  Charlie Driggs : Ray!

  [Ray kicks a tray; tosses Charlie from his recliner; kicks the cabinet] 

  Ray Sinclair : Get up! Let's see what you're made of, Charlie!