The Boost (1988)

Sean Young: Linda Brown

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• Linda : As long as we have each other we don't need anything else.

• Linda : [at Joel's first party]  I feel a little out of place here.

  Lenny : You are. You're the best-looking woman here.

  Linda : ...People here are a little strange.

  Lenny : Talented people usually ARE a little strange... They were ALL on something; MONEY'S the real drug around here, okay?

• Lenny : I'm making money so fast over at Max's, they can't keep track of it. Everybody in town thinks I'm a firecracker. And even after all this, my own WIFE still thinks I'm a BUM!

  Linda : I think you're a GENIUS. I just don't want you to feel like you're on a treadmill... having to make more and more money to pay for things we bought but don't need.

  Lenny : The way things are going, the money going out won't be missed if it NEVER comes back. When you get to where we are, NOTHING can touch you.

• Joel : [at his first party]  Welcome. Eat, drink, and make contacts.

  Linda : Joel throws a nice party, doesn't he?

  Lenny : What's REALLY nice is that Uncle Sam pays for half. And HE wasn't even invited.

• Linda : [at dinner with Ned]  I'm a little too old to be a PROFESSIONAL ballerina.

  Lenny : Now, I bet you never heard a beautiful girl admit to THAT.

• Linda : Maybe we're going too fast. We should just take this a step at a time.

  Lenny : To hell with that. You don't STEP through life. "Teacher, may I?" It goes too quick for that. You gotta LEAP through life!

• Linda : [at dinner with Ned]  ... Lenny told me about the mistake today. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was sort of counting on that sale to break into the business.

  Lenny : [to Linda]  That doesn't mean anything to Ned.

  Ned : What doesn't mean anything?

  Lenny : Hustling for money. You're above all that.

  Ned : I worry about money, just like everybody else.

  Lenny : But you got some backstops. You start falling down that well, you got some slats across to catch yourself, right? You got your professor-father. You got an education. You got the Financial Journal. You can't fall too far. My old man's an ex-printer on disability! My mother is a secretary for the Ladies Garment Workers Union! I'VE GOT A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION!

• Linda : I'm not gonna SIT here and watch you KILL yourself!