Heart Beat (1980)
Nick Nolte: Neal Cassady
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Quotes
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Neal Cassady : Hey, Jack. This little chick back here just wants to settle down and make me miserable.
Jack Kerouac : You think she'll get away with it?
Neal Cassady : Oh, well, I kinda doubt it.
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Neal Cassady : Jack, New York's no place to be a writer either. Too many people trying to be famous.
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Stevie : I'm no whiz kid like Jack or Ira, but, they're just using you, anyway.
Neal Cassady : I know.
Stevie : I don't know what they'd write about if it wasn't for you?
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Stevie : What are you doing with two t-shirts?
Neal Cassady : I always wear two t-shirts.
Stevie : Crazy.
Neal Cassady : I know I'm crazy.
[kiss]
Neal Cassady : Don't do anything crazy, Stevie.
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Ira : Like dripping out of the Sun, Momus, Momus, Son of night, Momus, Invisible Coalitions, Deranged Industrialists, Ghostly Nations, Insolent Asylums, Momus, Momus, Cocksucker in Momus, Malignant bombs, Malignant bombs, Glass jism!
Neal Cassady : Very good, Ira.
Ira : I'm not finished. What did you think?
Carolyn Cassady : Well, I guess I'm kind of old fashion; but, I sort of go for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
Ira : Eliot!
Carolyn Cassady : Yeah.
Ira : Oh! You mean the bank clerk! The world's big authority on the end of civilization. You wanna know about civilization? You ask any bum on the bowery after he's had 12 shots of Sterno. The puke encrusted scabs on his face are a more eloquent poem than Eliot ever wrote. Eliot?
Carolyn Cassady : So, eh, how long are you here for, Ira?
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Ira : They got free tea growing in god damn fields down there.
Neal Cassady : Well, then, we'll just get high drivin' around with the windows open.
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Neal Cassady : Jack?
Jack Kerouac : Yeah, Jack.
Neal Cassady : By God, this is great. I can't bare to drink alone in my condition.
Jack Kerouac : What condition?
Neal Cassady : I'm broke!
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Neal Cassady : God knows I love her. I love her a lot. I can't even look her in the eye no more.
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Neal Cassady : Hey, tell me about those Mexican babes. I bet they're hot mamas! Huh?
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Neal Cassady : Come on. It's like old times. Tonight we wail! Tomorrow, we hit the road.
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Jack Kerouac : Just because it didn't work out for you, doesn't mean it's not gonna work out for me.
Neal Cassady : What are you gonna do? You're gonna punch into a job, nine to five? Come home, rake leaves, take care of the kids, right?
Jack Kerouac : Sure. That's that's the right idea.
Neal Cassady : Bull shit! She doesn't believe that for a minute.
Jack Kerouac : Yes she does.
Carolyn Cassady : No I don't!
Jack Kerouac : Ah, it doesn't make any difference. I'm gonna do it anyway.
Carolyn Cassady : I don't want you to do it.
Jack Kerouac : Well, Neal does.
Carolyn Cassady : Is that who you're doin' it for?
Jack Kerouac : I'm doin' it for you both. I'm doin' it for all three of us.
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Carolyn Cassady : God, I guess I just expected too much.
Neal Cassady : Yeah, I know. We both expected too much. Do you think you can make her happy, Jack?
Jack Kerouac : I don't know.
Carolyn Cassady : Why not? He doesn't expect a thing anymore.
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Jack Kerouac : What's wrong with being famous?
Neal Cassady : Oh, come on, Jack. Listen, here, you know, we all gotta serve. But, the famous - they have to serve as an example.
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Neal Cassady : You sure do look cute when you're happy.
Carolyn Cassady : You charm the pants off of me, when you are.
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Neal Cassady : Well, I'll miss you, Jack.
Jack Kerouac : I'll miss you too.
Neal Cassady : I love you, man.
Jack Kerouac : I love you, too.
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Neal Cassady : I've been holdin' down the fort for 10 years.
Jack Kerouac : And I'll hold it down when I get back. You don't believe I'm comin' back. Do you believe I'm comin' back?
Carolyn Cassady : Jack, it's alright if you're not comin' back.
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Carolyn Cassady : He didn't hear a word I said, did he? Neal?
Neal Cassady : I didn't hear what you said.
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Poet : What do you think?
Neal Cassady : What about?
Poet : This is good. This is what's happening, now.
Neal Cassady : Wait. What is this?
Poet : This is the scene, man. I've got to eat too. You know that.
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Undercover Agent : Are you really the cat in that book man? They we're talkin' about?
Neal Cassady : Not really, man. Not really.
Undercover Agent : Ah, man, that's a pretty hep book, man. Swipin' cars, smokin' reefer. Man you're a pretty famous literary figure, man, you know. Hey, can you get rich off of that?
Neal Cassady : What? What? Do I look rich to you? Do I look rich? Huh?
Undercover Agent : Hey, man, any dude who's got two sticks of reefer and the wine spoleto is rich in my book.
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Undercover Agent : I guess the whole wide world is going to want to smoke reefer when they read that book, man.
Neal Cassady : Yeah, well, listen, everybody wants to be hip.
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Neal Cassady : All I own are two t-shirts.
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Neal Cassady : A man's home, my friend, is his castle.