Twenty Quotes from David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" (1986)
collected 8/26/00
Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan): "It's a strange world, isn't it?"
Jeffrey: "There are opportunities in life for gaining knowledge and experience. Sometimes, it's necessary to take a risk."
Sandy Williams (Laura Dern): "I don't know if you're a detective or a pervert."
Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) (on the phone): "Yes, Sir. Frank? Frank, let me talk to him. Please, Frank. Sir.......I like to sing Blue Velvet."
Dorothy: "Hello, Baby."
Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper): "Shut up! It's Daddy, you shithead! Where's my bourbon?"
Frank: "Mommy.....Baby wants to fuck......Get ready to fuck, you fuckers!.......Don't you fucking look at me!"
Frank: "You stay alive, Baby. Do it for Van Gogh."
Jeffrey: "Why are there people like Frank? Why is there so much trouble in this world?"
Jeffrey: "I'm seeing something that was always hidden. I'm involved in a mystery; I'm in the MIDDLE of a mystery. And it's all a secret."
Dorothy (after having sex with Jeffrey): "I have your disease in me now."
Frank: "Hey, you want to go for a ride?"
Jeffery: "No thanks."
Frank: "No thanks? What does that mean?"
Jeffery: "I don't want to go."
Frank: "Go where?"
Jeffery: "For a ride."
Frank: "A ride! Hell, that's a good idea!"
Frank: "What kind of beer do you like?"
Jeffery: "Heineken."
Frank: "Heineken! Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!"
Frank: "Raymond, where's the fuckin' beer, man?"
Raymond (Brad Dourif): "It's right here Frank. You want me to pour it?"
Frank: "No, I want you to fuck it! Shit yes, pour the fuckin' beer!"
Frank: "Let's drink to fucking. Let's say 'Here's to your fuck, Frank'"
Ben (Dean Stockwell) (very effeminately): "If you like, Frank. Here's to your fuck. Cheers."
Frank: "Cheers. Ah, suave, man! You are so fuckin' suave!"
Paul (Jack Nance) (very creepy voice): "I'm Paul."
Frank: "Paul! Candy colored clown!"
Frank: "Don't be a good neighbor to her. I'll send you a love letter straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fuckin' gun, fucker! You receive a love letter from me, you're fucked forever! You understand, fuck? I'll send you straight to hell, fucker!"
Dorothy: "He put his disease in me."
Jeffery: "Maybe the robins are here."
Aunt Barbara (Frances Bay): I don't see how they could do that. I could never eat a bug."
Sandy: "It's a strange world.....isn't it?"
