River Phoenix credited as playing...
Mike Waters
- Scott Favor: I only have sex with a guy for money.
- Mike Waters: Yeah, I know.
- Scott Favor: And two guys can't love each other.
- Mike Waters: Yeah.
- Mike Waters: Well, I don't know. I mean... I mean, for me, I could love someone even if I, you know, wasn't paid for it... I love you, and... you don't pay me.
- Scott Favor: Mike...
- Mike Waters: I really wanna kiss you, man... Well goodnight, man... I love you though... You know that... I do love you.
- [last lines]
- Mike Waters: I'm a connoisseur of roads. I've been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end. It probably goes all around the world.
- Scott Favor: It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings. Isn't that right, Mike.
- Mike Waters: What?
- Scott Favor: Wings, Michael. You grow wings, and become a fairy.
- Mike Waters: [First lines, mumbled to self, counting seconds, looking at pocket watch] 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10...
- [Coughs]
- Mike Waters: I always know where I am by the way that the road looks. Like I just know that I've been here before. I just know that I've been stuck here, like this one f**king time before, you know that? Yeah. There's not another road anywhere that looks like this road - I mean, exactly like this road. It's one kind of place. One of a kind... like someone's face...
- [cracks neck]
- Mike Waters: like a f**ked up face.
- Richard Waters: That guy. He was your real dad, Mike.
- Mike Waters: Don't fuck me in the head anymore man! I know the fucking truth! I know who my fucking real dad is!
- Richard Waters: Who?... Who?
- Mike Waters: Dick, you. Richard, you're my dad. I know that.
- Richard Waters: You know too much.
- Mike Waters: [in a coffee shop] How'd we get home?
- Scott Favor: That German guy. Hans. He brought you downtown, you were passed out. He said he was heading to Portland, so I asked him for a ride.
- Mike Waters: For some reason I'm forgetting a German guy named Hans.
- Scott Favor: Well. You were sleeping.
- Mike Waters: How much do you make off me while I'm sleeping?
- Scott Favor: Just a ride, Mike. I don't make anything. What, you think that I sell your body while you are asleep?
- Mike Waters: Yeah.
- Scott Favor: [Scott stirs his coffee] No, Mike. I'm on your side.
- Scott Favor: Getting away from everything feels good.
- Mike Waters: Yeah, it does.
- Scott Favor: When I left home, the maid asked me where I was off to. I said "Wherever. Whatever. Have a nice day."
- Mike Waters: You had a maid. If I had a normal family, and a good up-bringing, then I would have been a well-adjusted person.
- Scott Favor: It depends on what you call normal.
- Mike Waters: Yeah, it does. Well, you know. Normal. Like a mom and a dad and a dog, and shit like that. Normal. Normal.
- Scott Favor: So, you didn't have a normal dog?
- Mike Waters: No, I didn't have a dog.
- Scott Favor: Didn't... or... didn't have a normal dad?
- Mike Waters: Didn't have a dog or a normal dad anyway, yeah. That's alright. I don't feel sorry for myself. I mean, I feel like I'm... I feel like I'm... you know... well-adjusted.
- Bob Pigeon: Are you not a coward? Answer that, and that goes double!
- Mike Waters: You're calling me a coward? You fat duck!
- Bob Pigeon: I'd give a thousand dollars to be able to run as fast as you can.
- Mike Waters: It'll never happen Bob.
- Mike Waters: Walt.
- Walt: Yeah, Mike?
- Mike Waters: You think, um, that you could spot me ten more dollars?
- Walt: Ten dollars? What's the matter, you can't get it from your dad?
- Mike Waters: My dad and I don't get along too well, you know that Walt.
- Walt: We're not getting along that well either now, are we?
- Mike Waters: No we don't get along too well... or else he wouldn't have gone out and drowned himself at Boxcar Canyon.
- Walt: Again? He hit the water this time?
- Mike Waters: He survived the first time, this time...
- Walt: Oh, God.
- Mike Waters: You're the only one I can ask, you know that Walt! Please! I'll owe you a date, how about that? I'll owe you a date. Pleeeeeeeease.
- Walt: Oh God, tears crying, hold on. Here you go.
- [slides money under the door]
- Mike Waters: Thanks!
- Daddy Carroll: I am so lucky, i was born on April 4th 1944, thats 4.4.44, if you add that up it comes to 16: 1-6, one plus six is seven: luckiest number of all.
- Mike Waters: You know your Math.
- Daddy Carroll: It's more than math Mike, it's... imaculate perfection!
- Gary: Hey man, did you get into that Sinead O'Connor concert last night?
- Mike Waters: To the Sinead? What?
- Gary: You know, the chick with the bald head.
- Mike Waters: I've never been to a concert before, dude.
- Mike Waters: [shouting at rabbit on roadside] Oooh-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo! Where do you think you're running, man? We're stuck here together, you s**t!