Conversation Quotes

It's ok, he's just admiring the shape of your skull!

Give her reason to smile again. 'Cause you know what, man? You know what? She's gonna speak to you, if you just give her a reason to smile.

— Sometimes I think you're a bit of a mind reader.
— But I don't have to be a mind reader with you because you always say what you think.
— I know, it's a curse.
— What, are you kidding? It's a relief. An enormous relief. Do you know how rare that is, to actually say what you think?
— Do you have any idea hoW rare it is for someone to actually like that?

Hipolito: — We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.
Gina: — We do it to keep us from talking crap.

— I mean, okay, my mom... I don't know. She's a crazy person. She just worries all day every day. And honestly it annoys the shit out of me. It's way too much. And it's not helpful and I can't talk to her. I don't call her back.
— It's a problem. So she's got this husband that can't talk to her and this son that won't?
— Yeah, I guess.
— Makes you kind of a dick.

We've just spent an hour here, and you can't see I'm not well. You can't even see I'm not well. You're blinded by wedded bliss, by your plans to have a baby. Can't you see I'll never make it? I could never be like you. A normal guy. Completely normal.

— Are you doing that on purpose, or can't you make up your mind?
— That's the trouble. I can't make up my mind. I haven't got a brain. Only straw.
— How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
— I don't know. But some people without brains do a lot of talking, don't they?
— Yes, I guess you're right.

In our relations with other people, we mainly discuss and evaluate their character and behavior.

Walt Kowalski: — You could talk about a construction job you just came from and bitch about your girlfriend and your car. <...> Just talk about people who are not in the room. You could bitch about your boss making you work overtime when it's bowling night.
<...>
Thao: — Yeah, but I don't have a job, a car or a girlfriend.
Barber Martin: — Jesus. I should've blown his head off when I had the chance.
Walt Kowalski: — Yeah. Maybe so. Now, okay, I want you to turn around and go outside… and come back, and don't talk about having no job… no car, no girlfriend, no future, no dick.

— We have to talk about this seriously.
— Talk is overrated as a means of resolving disputes.