The Cure (1995)

Joseph Mazzello: Dexter

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• Dexter : Suppose you kept going another 18 billion light years, what if there's nothing out there? Suppose you kept going another trillion times further, so far out you see nothing. The light from the universe would be fainter than the faintest star. Infinitely cold. Infinitely dark. Sometimes if I wake up and it's dark, I get really scared, like I'm out there and I'm never coming back.

  Erik : Here, hold onto this when you sleep. And if you wake up and you're scared, you'll say, "Wait a minute. I'm holding Eric's shoe. Why the hell would I be holding some smelly basketball shoe a trillion light years from the universe? I must be here on earth, safe in my sleeping bag, and Eric must be close by."

• Dexter : Have to eat my lunch now.

  Erik : Why don't you just eat whenever you're hungry?

  Dexter : 'Cause if I only ate when I was hungry, I wouldn't be here.

• Dexter : There's something I have to tell you. My mom likes to call me 'Sweetie'.

  Erik : Ha ha ha. "Sweetie"?

  Dexter : You gotta promise not to laugh.

  Linda : [At dinner]  You want some more carrots, sweetie?

  Erik : [as Linda goes to the kitchen; while laughing]  You didn't finish all your meat loaf, love muffin.

  Dexter : Would you shut up?

• Dexter : This is stupid.

  Erik : Yeah? Well, about twenty years ago there was this guy. He noticed some mold growing on his bread and he started feeding it to people. Everybody said he was stupid. You know what it turned out to be? Aspirin!

• Linda : Dexter, is Erik staying for dinner?

  Dexter : Waka.

  Erik : That means 'yes', white woman.

• [Looking at a Playboy magazine] 

  Dexter : This doesn't look like my mom.

  Erik : These aren't moms. These are women. This is what they're supposed to look like.

• Erik : Hey! What would you do if I come over there and whopped your ass?

  Dexter : How long would that take?

  Erik : 'Bout 10 seconds.

  Dexter : I'd wait till you're finished and then I'd continue working on my mud fort.

  Erik : You mean you'd just let me beat you up?

  Dexter : I'd try to stop you but I probably wouldn't be able to, I'm not very big.

  Erik : Well in that case it'd only take 5 seconds.

  Dexter : So is that what you're gonna do?

  Erik : Maybe later.

  Dexter : Hello? You still there?

• Dexter : [They are opening candy bars in the store]  Are we allowed to do this?

  Erik : Of course. How else you supposed to know what you're gonna get.

• Dexter : You'd be crazy to stab me. My blood is like poison. One drop could kill you.

• Dexter : I'm not sure I understand why you have to try all this stuff too.

  Erik : Don't you know anything about scientific method?

  Dexter : A little.

  Erik : Well you have to have a control group, so you can see if the results are uniform.

• Dexter : This one is the worst yet!

  Erik : My grandma says, the worse it tastes, the better it works.

  Dexter : Your K-Mart clerk grandma?

  Erik : ...Drink.

• Erik : Hey thanks for moving in here. Now all the kids at school call me "faggot" and walk on the other side of the hall.

  Dexter : I gotta live somewhere.

• Dexter : Where do bugs go to the bathroom?

  Erik : It's not on leaves. Not even bugs are stupid enough to shit on their own food.

  Dexter : [They make a tea from some found leaves]  Tastes like crap.

  Erik : No shit, don't you know where bugs go to the bathroom?

• Dexter : What's your name?

  Angle : Angel.

  Dexter : [notices her tattoo]  You misspelt your tattoo. It doesn't say "Angel", it says "Angle".

  Angle : Yeah, I'm aware of that now.

• Erik : So they think I'm a faggot. And now all of a sudden I'm yelling the same stuff at them. Well they know I'm not a faggot, 'cause a faggot wouldn't yell "faggot" back. That's why you should've yelled "faggot" too.

  Dexter : I wouldn't feel right saying that.

  Erik : Why the hell not?

• [Reading a Playboy magazine] 

  Dexter : It says she was born in 1975.

  Erik : She doesn't look that old.

• Erik : We really took this moron Pony to the cleaners. The money we gave him won't pay for half his gas.

  Dexter : This boat is FROM New Orleans. He's on his way home.

  Erik : Now what makes you think that?

  [Walks to the back and peers down at the sign, "Floating Bayou, New Orleans, Louisiana"] 

  Erik : Shit!