The Big Bus (1976)

Joseph Bologna: Dan Torrance

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• Dan : You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal. What a world!

• Dan : I'd eaten everything else! I ate the seat cushions like they told us to in training!

• Dan : Look, Bendix made a stew. I had no idea there was a foot in it.

• Dan : Now I know it looked like I fell... but it was all part of my plan.

• Dan : Quick, how many decisions have I made today?

• Dan : Raise the flags of all nations!

• Claude Crane : Captain, we need you to marry us.

  Dan Torrance : WHAT?

  Sybil Crane : We need you to marry us.

  Claude Crane : We realized we never should've gotten divorced.

  Dan Torrance : How long you been divorced?

  Claude Crane : Six hours.

  Dan Torrance : Give it a chance!

• Dan : Kitty, I want you to know something. I want you to know that every woman I kissed, every woman I held, every woman I caressed... every time I went to the Ajax Motel I was always thinking of you.

  Kitty Baxter : Don't say it if it isn't true.

  Dan : That's why I chased them all, Kitty, why I bedded them all. It was to think of you.

  Kitty Baxter : But why didn't you bed *me* to think of me?

  Dan : I don't know. But the important thing is... for the rest of my life I only want to bed you - and think of them.

• Goldie : Drink up and get out, Torrence, we don't want your kind around here.

  Dan : Who's 'we', Goldie? Is that how you feel, Whitey? What about you, Blackie? Come on, speak up! I see you in the back there, Red. What about you guys: Pinky, Greenie, Brownie? We all started out as rookies together.

  Goldie : Men like you give busing a bad name, we all remember Mount Diablo!

  Dan : You know damn well there were never any charges brought against me.

  Goldie : When that bus crashed and you were lost in the mountains, we all know what really happened. There's only one way you could've stayed alive.

  Dan : I don't care what anybody says, I did not eat 110 passengers.

  Goldie : Before the crash you weighed 180, when they found you picking your teeth, you weighed 237. Explain that.

  Dan : I ate the seats! I ate the luggage! I boiled the floor mats just like they taught us!

  Goldie : How come there was no trace of passengers?

  Dan : My codriver ate them! Bendix was eating passengers left and right. I swear to God there was no way I could stop him, I was delirious with fever.

  Goldie : You didn't want to stop him! You yourself said you ate a foot!

  Dan : Look, Bendix made a stew, I had no idea there was a foot in it. You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal.

• Dan : [at his father's grave]  So Pop, I don't know what I'm gonna do, they're trying to run me out of the business, I can't get a job anywhere. Ever since Mount Diablo, they go around saying I ate 110 people. Could you imagine that? Did you ever see me eat anybody? I mean that's ridiculous, I never ate anybody, one foot, one lousy foot, I swear to God, that's it.

• Kitty Baxter : I guess the rumors are true, you're really on the skids.

  Dan : Are you kidding? You see this? The deluxe assortment! What the hell are you talking about?

  Kitty Baxter : Always the big show, the big lie, it's the only thing about you that's big, your heart sure isn't.

  Dan : Look, Kitty, what happened in Akron wasn't my fault. Lefty got sick, I had to take that express run.

  Kitty Baxter : You mean you wanted to run, to do anything but walk down the aisle with me. You just couldn't give up your little carhop, could you?

  Dan : Kitty, there was never anybody but you.

• Dan : I'm not leaving you this time, baby, I couldn't live without you.

  Kitty Baxter : You're not lying again, are you?

  Dan : Of course not.

  Kitty Baxter : Good, I just wanted to be sure.

  Dan : What do you mean?

  Kitty Baxter : [chuckles]  I'm lying, my foot's been free for 10 minutes, let's go.

• Dan : Kitty, I want this big lug to be my co-driver.

  Kitty Baxter : Not so fast, Dan, not just anybody can handle Cyclops. No offense, Shoulders, but Ed Collins was our co-driver and he's a tough guy to replace.

  Dan : Yeah well don't you worry, Shoulders can fill his shoes.

  Kitty Baxter : I know, but can he fit into his uniform? Can you wear a 42 long?

  Professor Baxter : I usually...

  Dan : Can you?

  Kitty Baxter : Yes or not.

  Dan : Answer the woman!

  Professor Baxter : I usually take a 44.

  Kitty Baxter : I'm sorry, Shoulders, thanks for dropping by, Dan, I tried.

  Dan : Alright, Kitty, either he gets into Collins' pants, or I'm walking out of Briggs' shoes. Take it or leave it.

  Kitty Baxter : [pause]  Alright, I'll take the risk.

• Dan : I'm coming, Kitty! Forgive me, Kitty. Forgive me for leaving you at the church! Forgive me for cheating on you with that carhop, with that switchboard operator, with that drum majorette. I lied about them all, Kitty, your best friend Toby, your cousin Brenda, your cousin Charlotte, your good looking aunt what's-her-name.

  Kitty Baxter : Dan! Turn off your intercom, you're killing me!

  Dan : Shit.

  Kitty Baxter : Aunt Florence, I'll kill her!

• Sybil Crane : You're gonna kill us, we're taking over the bus.

  Dan : So you want to take it over?

  Claude Crane : That's right.

  Dan : Well who the hell's gonna drive this thing? Huh? Come on, speak up! Who thinks they can handle this?

  Sybil Crane : [to Claude]  Be a man, raise your hand you little lizard. He will.

  Dr. Kurtz : The lizard will.

  Dan : Oh he can, huh? Well let's just see if he can. You want to turn left, when do you signal? 50 feet? 100 feet? 600 feet? You come to an intersection, there's an ambulance, a police car, a fire truck, who has the right of way? Hospital zone, school zone, what's your speed limit? Alright, here's an easy one, you come to railroad tracks, what do you do?

  Sybil Crane : Open your doors!

  Claude Crane : Open your doors!

  Dan : When? Before, during or after? You don't know, do you? Well that's sad, pal, because you just killed everybody.

• Kitty Baxter : Nuclear reactor indicator?

  Dan : Upper right-hand console, amber light.

  Kitty Baxter : Nuclear reactor shutoff?

  Dan : Overhead control box, red toggle switch.

  Kitty Baxter : Nuclear... cigarette lighter?

  Dan : ...Above the nuclear windshield wipers.

  Kitty Baxter : Wrong! There is no nuclear cigarette lighter! Either you know this or you don't!

  Dan : What do you want from me? I've been up four nights with this stuff!