Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Karen Black: Rayette Dipesto

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• Palm Apodaca : Hey, follow that truck. They know the best places to stop.

  Rayette : That's an old maid's tale.

  Palm Apodaca : Bullshit! Truck drivers are the only ones that know the best places to stop on the road.

  Rayette : Salesmen and cops are the ones. If you'd ever waitressed, honey, you'd know that.

  Palm Apodaca : Don't call me honey, mac.

  Rayette : Don't call me mac, honey.

• Rayette : I'm not.

  Bobby : You're just gonna sit here?

  Rayette : Yes.

  Bobby : Okay. I hope no one hits on you.

  Rayette : I hope they do.

• Rayette : That was real good, wasn't it? I finally did it!

  Bobby : Great. You throw the big Z's for 19 frames, and then you throw a strike on the last ball of a losing game. Wonderful. Just wonderful.

  [Turns around to bowlers at next lane] 

  Bobby : Isn't that wonderful, ladies?

  Twinky : Are you talking to us?

  Bobby : Wonderful.

• Rayette : You love me, Bobby?

  Bobby : What do you think?

  [they kiss] 

• [first lines] 

  Rayette : I'm gonna play it again.

  Bobby : You play that thing one more time, I'm gonna melt it down into hairspray.

  Rayette : Let me play the other side then.

  Bobby : No, Rayette, it's not a question of sides. It's a question of musical integrity.

• Rayette : That stupid thing just goes all cocky-wobbly, honey.

• Rayette : You depressed about your daddy, hon?

  Bobby : No.

  Rayette : I imagine it's me then, isn't it?

  Bobby : Is what you?

  Rayette : Are you depressed I come along?

  Bobby : Who says I'm depressed?

  Rayette : Is that a happy face I see?

• Samia Glavia : But, you see, man is born into the world with his existent adversary from the first. It is his historic, mythic inheritance. So, is this startling? Aggression is prehistoric. An organism behaves according to its nature. And its nature derives from the circumstances of its inheritance. The fact remains that primitive man took absolute delight in tearing his adversary apart. And there is where I think the core of the problem resides.

  Party Guest : Doesn't that seem unnecessarily apocalyptic?

  Samia Glavia : I do not make poetry.

  Rayette : Is there a TV in the house?

• Samia Glavia : [to Carl and Catherine]  I remarked to John that rationality is not a device to alter facts. But moreover, I think of it as an extraneous tool, a gadget. Somewhat like, uh, the television. To look at it any other way is ridiculous.

  Rayette : There's some good things on it though.

  Samia Glavia : I beg your pardon?

  Rayette : The TV. There's some good things on it sometimes.

  Samia Glavia : I have strong doubts.