Basic Instinct (1992)

Michael Douglas: Det. Nick Curran

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• Dr. McElwaine : Nick, when you recollect your childhood, are your recollections pleasing to you?

  Nick : Number 1, I don't remember how often I used to jerk off, but it was a lot. Number 2, I wasn't pissed off at my dad, even when I was old enough to know what he and mom were doing in the bedroom. Number 3, I don't look in the toilet before I flush it. Number 4, I haven't wet my bed for a long time. Number 5, why don't the two of you go fuck yourselves; I'm outta here.

• Gus : I thought you said he was a rock and roll star.

  Lt. Walker : He was a retired rock and roll star.

  Capt. Talcott : A civic-minded, very respectable rock and roll star.

  Gus : What's that over there?

  Nick : It looks like some civic-minded, very respectable cocaine to me, Gus.

• Andrews : There are cum stains all over the sheets.

  Nick : Very impressive.

  Gus : He got off before he got offed.

• Nick : What's your new book about?

  Catherine : A detective. He falls for the wrong woman.

  Nick : What happens to him?

  Catherine : She kills him.

• [last lines] 

  Catherine : What do we do now, Nick?

  Nick : Fuck like minks, raise rugrats and live happily ever after.

  Catherine : Hate rugrats.

  Nick : Fuck like minks, forget the rugrats, and live happily ever after.

• Nick : Let me ask you something, Rocky, man to man. I think she's the fuck of the century, what do you think?

• Gus : Did you ever do drugs with Mr. Boz?

  Catherine : Sure.

  Gus : What kind of drugs?

  Catherine : Cocaine. Have you ever fucked on cocaine, Nick? It's nice.

  [Catherine Tramell uncrosses her legs and it can be seen she's wearing no underwear] 

  Nick : You like playing games don't you?

  Catherine : I have a degree in psychology, it goes with the turf... Games are fun.

• Nick : What did Manny Vasquez call you?

  Catherine : "Bitch" mostly, but he meant it affectionately.

• Nick : So where is this going?

  Catherine : Ask me "What do you want from me, Catherine?"

  Nick : What the fuck do you want from me, Catherine?

• Catherine : Got some coke?

  Nick : I've got a Pepsi in the fridge.

• Internal Affairs Investigator : There's no smoking in this building, Detective.

  Nick : [repeating Catherine]  What are you going to do? Charge me with smoking?

• Nick : I'm in love with you already, but I'll nail you anyway.

• Detective Nick Curran : [interrogating Catherine regarding the murder of John Boz]  How long were you dating him?

  Catherine Tramell : I wasn't dating him. I was fucking him.

• Nick : How's your new book coming along?

  Catherine : It's practically writing itself.

• Gus : Forgive me for asking, and I don't mean to belabor the obvious, but why've you got your head so far up your ass?

  Nick : She wants to play. Fine, I can play.

  Gus : Everybody she plays with, dies.

• Catherine : Somebody has to die.

  Nick : Why?

  Catherine : Somebody always does.

• [Nick just had rough sex with Beth] 

  Beth Garner : You've never been like that before. Why?

  Nick : You tell me, you're the shrink.

  Beth Garner : You weren't making love to me!

  Nick : Well, who was I making love to?

  Beth Garner : You weren't making love at all.

• [first lines] 

  Gus : Who was this fuckin' guy?

  Nick : Rock and roll, Gus. Johnny Boz.

  Gus : Never heard of him.

  Nick : Before your time, cowboy.

• Dr. Myron : Do you believe Lieutenant Nilsen deserved to die?

  Nick : I didn't know him well enough. I won't miss him.

• Gus : Everyone she plays with dies.

  Nick : I know what that's like.

• Nick : So was she ever a suspect?

  Sheriff : Nope! There was some talk, but it never panned out.

  Nick : What kind of talk?

  Sheriff : Girlfriend!

  Nick : What he had a girlfriend?

  Sheriff : No! She did! But like I said, it never panned out.

• Nick : Do you have something against ice cubes?

  Catherine : [setting down the ice pick]  I like rough edges.

• Nick : Arh, I love it, she's got a 100 million bucks, she fucks fighters and rock and roll stars and she's got a degree in screwing with peoples' heads.

• Detective Nick Curran : [interrogating Catherine regarding the murder of John Boz]  Let me ask you something, Ms. Tramell. Are you sorry he's dead?

  Catherine Tramell : Yes. I liked fucking him.

• Gus : Where in the fuck you've been? I went over to your place.

  Nick : Easy, cowboy, easy. I wasn't there.

  Gus : I went over last night, too.

  Nick : No, I wasn't there either.

  Gus : You fucked her? Goddamn dumb son of a bitch, you fucked her! Goddamn, you are one dumb son of a bitch!

  Nick : Next time I'll use the rubber.

• Nick : How did you feel when I told you Johnny Boz had died, that day at the beach?

  Catherine : I felt somebody had read my book and was playing a game.

  Nick : But you didn't hurt.

  Catherine : No.

  Nick : Because you didn't love him.

  Catherine : That's right.

  Nick : Even though you were fucking him.

  Catherine : You still get the pleasure. Didn't you ever fuck anybody else while you were married, Nick?

• Nick : I'm working my ass off, I'm off the sauce, I even stopped smoking.

  Beth Garner : How's not smoking?

  Nick : It sucks.

• Nick : What is this? Some kind of JOKE?

• Nick : You wanna play hard, come on!

• Capt. Talcott : Hey, Nick!

  Nick : What?

  Capt. Talcott : Keep your three o'clock!

  Nick : You want me to work the case?

  Capt. Talcott : *I said keep it!*

  Nick : *Alright!* I'll keep it.

• Beth Garner : Something's going on. You're sleeping with her, aren't you?

  Nick : Why are you interested in her?

  Beth Garner : My interest is in you, not her. She seduces and manipulates people. She'll do anything she can.

  Nick : I thought you hardly knew her?

  Beth Garner : I know the type. I'm a psychologist.

  Nick : That means... you manipulate people too! You're a practicing psychologist. You're better at it than she is!

• Gus : Whatcha doin', hoss?

  Nick : I haven't had a drink in three months, that alright with you, cowboy?

• Gus : I don't buy it! There's gotta be somebody there, who knows whats going on.

  Nick : I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ALRIGHT! Catherine told me and everything she said has checked out!

  Gus : You've got Goddamn tweety birds flying around your head! You think the two of you will fuck like minks, raise rugrats, and live happily ever after!

• Beth Garner : [knocks on the door at Nick's apartment]  Nick! Nick, are you there?

  Nick : Go away, Beth! I don't want to see you.

  Beth Garner : [unlocks the door and enters the apartment, finding Nick drinking]  I still have my keys.

  Nick : Put 'em on the table and leave.

  [pause] 

  Nick : [shouts]  Put 'em on the goddamn table and leave!

  Beth Garner : [throws the keys on the floor]  Damn it! Don't shut me out, you owe me more than that!

  Nick : I don't owe you anything! And you don't owe me anything. We went to bed 10, maybe 15 times. That's miserable enough to carry an obligation.

  Beth Garner : Sometimes I really hate you.

  Nick : Oh, then why don't you get yourself some friendly little therapist and try to work out all that hostility. Then maybe you can get off once in a while.

• Nick : Writing a book about it gives you an alibi for not killing him.

  Catherine : Yes it does, doesn't it?

• Nick : How did you find out?

  Catherine : I have friends, I have attorneys. Money buys alot of attorneys and friends.

• Catherine : You could get in trouble. You're not really a cop anymore.

  Nick : I'll risk it.

  Catherine : Why take the risk?

  Nick : To see if I can get away with it.

• Catherine : Do you have a cigarette?

  Nick : I don't smoke.

  Catherine : Yes, you do.

  Nick : I quit!

  Catherine : [sarcastically]  Congratulations.

• Nick : What about Roxy? Is she more fun?

  Catherine : [chuckles]  Would you like to join us some time?

  Nick : Did she join you and Johnny?

  Catherine : No, Johnny felt intimidated.

  Nick : Look what happened to him.

• Nick : [Yells at Marty angrily]  Stop bribing me man, I will kick your fucking teeth in!