The Cutting Edge (1992)

D.B. Sweeney: Doug Dorsey

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• Doug : Don't say we are not right for each other, for the way is see it we might not be right for anybody else.

• Hale : I don't like to see her upset.

  Doug : If I was you, I'd invest in blindfolds.

• Kate : I'm sure there's nothing I do that you'd find exciting. I don't open beer bottles with my toes, I don't sit around and count what's left of my teeth, hey, I don't even enjoy a good tractor pull. It's been a limited existence, but I've gotten used to it.

  Doug : Life of the party, huh? Place must be crawling with guys.

  Kate : As a matter of fact, I do have a boyfriend.

  Doug : Well there's a rough gig. What do you do, keep him chained up in the basement?

  Kate : Hale at the moment is working in my father's London office, he's an MBA - Harvard. You might have heard of it. They do have a hockey team.

  Doug : He must be a very smart guy.

  Anton : First positions, please.

  Doug : Bet you look pretty good from a few thousand miles away.

• [last lines] 

  Doug Dorsey : You didn't have to.

  Kate Mosley : Yes, I did.

  Doug Dorsey : Why?

  Kate Mosley : Because I love you.

  Doug Dorsey : Just remember who said it first.

• [On the First Olympic Skate Doug has the top button unbuttoned] 

  Kate : You are an immature asshole of the lowest order.

  Doug : If it was forty below and that button meant the difference between a long satisfying life and a cold horrible death from hypothermia, I still wouldn't give you the satisfaction! Skate!

• Doug Dorsey : Great Expectations.

  Kate Mosley : Well, it was either that or "Curious George Plays Hockey". I took a chance.

• Kate : What do you do, shower once a week?

  Doug : Is that an invitation?

• [preparing to lift Kate] 

  Doug : You want my hands *where*?

• Hale : I understand you've been giving Kate a rough time.

  Doug Dorsey : You know Kate.

  Hale : Yes, I do. And I don't like to see her upset.

  Doug Dorsey : If I was you, I'd invest in blindfolds.

• Kate : If you're so bored, why don't you read?

  Doug : What, you mean like a book?

  Kate : That is a traditionally accepted format, yes.

  Doug : Is this the beginning of a conversation, here?

  Kate : I was just simply asking if you knew how to read.

  Doug : Yes. Doug can read.

  Kate : What was the last book you read? You *were* in college?

  Doug : The last thing I read in college was the letter canceling my scholarship when I couldn't play anymore.

  Kate : Okay, high school.

  Doug : I was a hockey player. The only thing I had to read was a scoreboard.

  Kate : And they graduated you?

  Doug : They revered me. I was a God.

  Kate : What a tragic commentary on our times.

• Doug Dorsey : I was gonna tell you - that book you gave me, it's pretty good.

  Kate Mosley : Really. Using it as a doorstop, or a coaster?

• Doug : It's out.

  Kate : It's in.

  Doug : It's out.

  Kate : It's in.

  Doug : It's out!

  Kate : It's in!

  Doug : What difference does it make?

  Kate : The difference is... I'm in the mood to kick a little ass.

• Doug : Hey, I'm sorry buddy, I wouldn't wish this on a snake. I'm outta here.

  Anton : [shouts in Russian]  Enough! Introduction is over, conversation finished! Mouths closed, ears to be opened.

  [to Kate] 

  Anton : Pairs means *two*. You have no partner. You are skating nowhere.

  [to Doug] 

  Anton : And where are you going? Ohh, back to Siberia? Skating on small pond is big excitement. And believe me, Gretzky, I am last person who is coming to look for you.

  [pause] 

  Anton : Good! We skate.

• Doug : [Doug chases Kate into the hotel elevator]  Kate! Kate, will you wait a minute? Kate! Kate! Kate! Kate!

  Kate : Don't! Don't even try it! Just looking at you makes me sick! To think I was coming to apoligize! Lorie Peckarovski!

  Doug : Were you, or were you not engaged to be married until last night?

  Kate : Hardly the point.

  Doug : You threw me out of your room!

  Kate : Count your blessings. She may not have waited much longer!

  Doug : That's not how it happened!

  Kate : Spare me the details.

  Doug : Where the hell do you get off?

  Kate : *Me?*

  Doug : This is my fault? From the first day I walk into your rink, you treat me like a hired hand! Then one night, you get drunk, I'm supposed to roll over and thank my lucky stars? I'm sorry, I don't downshift that fast!

  Kate : Get out of my way!

  Doug : No problem! I've been practicing that move for a year and a half!

  [people are chuckling at them] 

  Doug : Blind date.

• Kate : Who the hell do you think you are?

  Doug : I know exactly who I am, sweetheart. I'm a guy who came a long way for lunch.

  Kate : Well, please don't let me keep you from the trough.

• Doug : Well, actually, it's kinda interesting.

  Woman in Bar : I'll bet.

  Drunk : Tell him.

  Woman in Bar #2 : We're waiting.

  Doug : I- I b- I been doin' a little- I been doin' a little figure skating.

  Drunk : Damn.

  Man in Bar : What'd he say?

  Walter Dorsey : You been doin' what?

  Old man in back of bar : Finger painting?

• Doug Dorsey : [at the hospital after Kate hit his nose with a hockey puck]  Toe pick!

• [Doug is carrying Kate's flowers and walking her back to her room. The long program is the next day] 

  Doug : Man, this overnight thing is brutal. Why can't it be a double header, you know? Short program, long program. Same night, boom, we're outta here, you know what I mean?

  Kate : Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

  Doug : It's like 'Enough already!' It's like... what's the word? Uh, y-you know what word I'm looking for? Wh-You know what I mean?

  Kate : [trying to open her door]  I don't know, uhhh, expectation?

  Doug : No, no, when you, uh...

  Kate : Anticipation? Excitement?

  Doug : Foreplay!

  Kate : [looks up in shock, stunned]  Foreplay?

  Doug : Yeah, you know, like foreplay.

  Kate : Yeah, I know what it means.

  Doug : Well, wouldn't you rather just get right to it?

  Kate : What?

  Doug : Skating. Long program.

  [Kate stares, wide-eyed] 

  Doug : Chicago? Nationals?

  [holds up her bouquet] 

  Doug : Flowers?

  Kate : [still stunned, takes her flowers]  Sleep. I'd rather sleep.

  [She goes into her room, leaving Doug very confused outside] 

• Doug : It can't be any harder to stay together than it was to stay apart.

• Kate : An old shirt.

  Doug : An old shirt? Bobby Hull wore that sweater. That's Bobby Hull's game sweater. That - I've had that 15 years. Bobby Hull.

• Lorie Peckarovski : Oh, we're definitely a team.

  Brian Newman : Definitely.

  Lorie Peckarovski : There's a real sense of togetherness.

  Doug Dorsey : Spirit.

  Lorie Peckarovski : Spirit. Family. It's,,, It's sort of,,, It's almost,,, It's almost...

  Kate Mosley : Orgasmic.

• Doug : There's only two things I do really well, sweetheart, and skating's the other one!

• [Doug drops Kate on her rear] 

  Kate : [shouting]  You, you cretin!

  Doug : Guess that move needs some work.

• Walter Dorsey : [after Doug has just told him he's been figure skating]  Are they gonna make you shave your legs?

  Doug Dorsey : Ah, screw this. I don't even know why...

  Walter Dorsey : [laughs]  Gotcha!

• Kate : What were you planning on doing when your gladiatoring days were over?

  Doug : You can bet your tights I never thought I'd be working a freak show like this.

  Kate : I'm surprised you don't chuck it all and start your own think tank.

• Doctor : You got a blind side, Doug. It's a permanent condition.

  Doug Dorsey : So there's an operation, right?

  Doctor : I'm afraid not.

  Doug Dorsey : Some micro-laser thing. You open me up and...

  Doctor : Doug, I've specialized in ophthalmic surgery for over 15 years.

  Doug Dorsey : Okay, you don't do it, but somebody, somewhere, down in Mexico City, they shoot shark piss up your nose, you sit in traction for eight months.

  Doctor : Doug... I'm sorry. I don't see professional hockey in your future.

• Doug : [Unfamiliar with figure skates]  Hey, what's the deal with these claws in the front here?

  Anton : Is toe pick.

  Doug : Toe pick? Let me guess, it has something to personal hygiene.

  Kate : I wouldn't let that get in your way.

  Doug : I don't let anything get in my way.

• Calgary Cop : Name, son?

  [as Doug is charging down the ramp to the arena, late for his Olympic hockey game] 

  Doug : Dorsey, U.S. Hockey!

  Calgary Cop : Hell, son, they're just about to start!

• Doug : Honey, where I'm from, we stand for the National Anthem.

• Doug : Yeah, what's the deal - you goof on me, my brother buys you a beer?

  Anton : What-what means 'goof'?

• Doug : Parlez-vous Olympics?