Metropolitan (1989)

Bryan Leder: Fred Neff

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• Fred Neff : Men are dates, date substitutes or potential dates. I find that dehumanizing.

• Fred Neff : I think I'll be going now. I have nothing to say, and I'm completely boring without a drink.

  Tom Townsend : It's only midnight. You can't go.

  Fred Neff : I'm sorry, but without the cocktails, staying up all night loses its charm. Besides, I haven't had anything amusing to say since I stopped drinking.

  Tom Townsend : Did you have anything amusing to say before you stopped?

  Fred Neff : I know, but it seemed amusing. Now it doesn't.

• Fred Neff : You don't need to put on pink eye shadow for us.

  Jane Clark : It's not for you. I've got a date.

  Fred Neff : A date? What's that? It sounds like something from the 1950s.

• Charlie Black : It's a bit disappointing. I thought we were better friends than that.

  Fred Neff : I wonder whether we're really friends for them at all. We're just way stations between dates. I mean, for them, men are either dates, potential dates or date substitutes.

• Tom Townsend : The whole Rat Pack thing seems to have disintegrated.

  Fred Neff : The Rat Pack is down to the rats.