Cocktail (1988)

Tom Cruise: Brian Flanagan

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• [Last Barman poem] 

  Brian : I am the last barman poet / I see America drinking the fabulous cocktails I make / Americans getting stinky on something I stir or shake / The sex on the beach / The schnapps made from peach / The velvet hammer / The Alabama slammer. / I make things with juice and froth / The pink squirrel / The three-toed sloth. / I make drinks so sweet and snazzy / The iced tea / The kamakazi / The orgasm / The death spasm / The Singapore sling / The dingaling. / America you've just been devoted to every flavor I got / But if you want to got loaded / Why don't you just order a shot? / Bar is open.

• Bonnie : Please, I don't want to end it this way.

  Brian : Jesus, everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn't end.

• Brian : Days get shorter and shorter, nights longer and longer, before you know it, your life is just one long night with a few comatose daylight hours.

• [last lines] 

  Jordan : Bet I can still spook you.

  Brian : No way.

  [she whispers in his ear] 

  Brian : Twins? Twins?

  [to everyone] 

  Brian : Twins! Drinks are on the house!

  Uncle Pat : No! No!

  Brian : The bar is open!

• [Flanagan's advice to his unborn child:] 

  Brian : If Jordan gives birth to a fine Irish son / There will be Cocktails and Dreams for him one day to run / A business that will yield the financial windfall / To be franchised in every suburban shopping mall. / If a daughter arrives to bless our clan / I guess the shit will finally hit the fan / But this I shall promise thee / I'll never let her marry a guy like me. / Still if our child is the naughtiest of girls or the wildest of young men / I swear I'll be the best dad I can / And never ever get spooked again.

• Brian : Coughlin's law: never show surprise, never lose your cool.

• Brian : Should we let it breathe?

  Doug : It hasn't breathed for fifty years, it's dead. Let's just drink it.

• Brian : You're offering me a job?

  Doug : Uh huh.

  Brian : The waitresses hate me!

  Doug : You wait till you've given them crabs. Then you'll really know hatred.

• [Jordan is drawing a picture of Brian] 

  Brian : So this is your profession.

  Jordan : More like my... obsession.

  Brian : To pay the rent?

  Jordan : Someday it will.

• Brian : I'm willing to start at the bottom.

  Job Interviewer : You're aiming too high.

• Brian : I'm looking for the Manager.

  Doug : What's the problem? Did you find a hair in your quiche?

  Brian : No, I'm looking for a job.

  Doug : Ah, you'd like to put a hair in somebody else's quiche.

• Doug : Mighty Casey has struck out.

  Brian : The game's not over yet. It wouldn't be any fun if they fell over with their legs in the air, would it?

• Brian : I'll stick with the brew.

  Doug : Beer is for breakfast around here, drink or be gone.

• [Jordan has returned to her father's Park Avenue penthouse to find Brian arguing with him] 

  Brian : I think there's a chance for us.

  Jordan : Brian, there is no "us." There's too many things about "us" that don't work.

  Brian : What about the baby? A kid needs a father.

  Jordan : Not one who's not going to be around in a year?

  Mr. Mooney : Yeah, with your lifestyle, what kind of a father would you...

  Jordan : Dad!

• Brian : Listen, I'm sorry I called you a bitch.

  Eleanor : Why? I am a bitch.

• Brian : Not a goddamned thing any one of those professors says makes a difference on the street.

  Doug : If you know that, you're ready to graduate.

• Mr. Mooney : You're on your own.

  Brian : That's the only way I want it.

• Brian : [telling Bonnie he's moving out of her place]  I left a can of Spam in your refrigerator... I hope your Brewers Yeast doesn't take it personally.

• Brian : [looking at Jordan's painting]  Is this our waterfall?

  Jordan : No.

  Brian : It's terrific.

  Jordan : Yeah, it's all right. The name's Mooney, not Monet.

• Bonnie : I've been thinking about you all day.

  Brian : Really? A plane ride home will cure that.

• Jordan : What are you doing here?

  Brian : I bet you thought you'd never see me again.

  Jordan : *Hoped* is a better word!

• [first lines] 

  Brian : Come on, put it to the floor! Come on! Let's go!

• Brian : You wouldn't treat a stray dog like this.

  Jordan : A stray dog can be *loyal*.

• Brian : I can't *make it with my best friend's old lady.

  Kerry Coughlin : Ami I supposed to live with the same man *forever and no one else in my life?

  Brian : Yes! It's called *marriage.