River's Edge (1986)

Daniel Roebuck: Samson

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Quotes 

• Samson : You were a biker.

  Feck : Yeah, years ago. Oh, man. I ate so much pussy in those days, my beard looked like a glazed doughnut.

• Feck : I killed a girl, it was no accident. Put a gun to the back of her head and blew her brains right out the front. I was in love.

  Samson : I strangled mine.

  Feck : Did you love her?

  Samson : She was okay.

• Layne : Why did you kill her?

  Samson : She was talking shit.

• [holding a cat] 

  Samson : Look what I found. We can get it stoned!

• Samson : I killed her.

  Maggie : You're strange, John.

  Tony : What'd you do, man? Sit on her?

• [Matt tries to buy beer] 

  Samson : You giving my friend trouble.

  Checker : Look, I cannot sell you guys beer after two o'clock in the morning.

  Samson : [displaying a gun]  Well, I'm here to turn back the time.

• [first lines] 

  Checker : [points at legal age sign] 

  Samson : That's a real nice sign, how much.

  Checker : I have to see ID.

  Samson : I left it at home. How much?

  Checker : I'm not going to sell you this unless you show me ID.

• Tony : Gimme a cigarette, man.

  Layne : You fucking gave up cigarettes.

  Tony : I gave up yesterday, not today.

  Layne : I gave up lending.

  [hands over the cigarette anyway] 

  Layne : Learn some self-control, you're interrupting.

  [to Matt:] 

  Layne : Go on.

  Matt : I don't know. I just figured we could dump this place, you know? Go up there, and if we like it, we stay, don't come back.

  Clarissa : [not impressed]  Where did you get Portland?

  Matt : Well, nobody knows us up there.

  Clarissa : People know us here?

  Layne : [mimicking Sonny & Cher, his hand wandering]  I know you, babe.

  Clarissa : [brushing him off]  That's really annoying, Layne.

  Layne : [to Matt:]  So what, man? We could be lumberjacks or something?

  Matt : There's other things to do.

  Layne : Like what?

  Maggie : Like getting stoned.

  [laughter] 

  Layne : It almost sounds like a plan. Except we're all broke, and I'm the only one with a car.

  Tony : We could just take all our parents' money, take off, discover America, and make like we're Easy Rider plus five.

  Clarissa : [checking Maggie's wristwatch]  Shit, I gotta go. Burkewaite's gonna have a spaz attack if I'm late again.

  Layne : [taunting]  She's in love with his middle-aged ass.

  Clarissa : He's not middle-aged, asshole.

  [to new arrival coming up:] 

  Clarissa : Hi, John.

  Layne : [to Samson]  Didn't think you'd make it today. Where's Jamie?

  Samson : I killed her.

  Clarissa : [to Maggie]  She's gonna be in big trouble if she keeps ditching like this.

  Maggie : [to Samson]  You what?

  Samson : I killed her.

  Maggie : [decides he's talking nonsense]  You're strange, John.

  [the two girls walk off to class] 

• Tony : [after his blunt revelation about having killed Jamie]  What did you do, man? Sit on her?

  [walks off] 

  Samson : [to the others]  They don't believe me.