An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Griffin Dunne: Jack Goodman

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• David : Nurse!

  Jack : Listen to me!

  David : [crying]  Nurse!

  Jack : The undead surround me. Have you ever talked to a corpse? It's boring! I'm lonely! Kill yourself, David, before you kill others.

  [David continues crying] 

  Jack : Please don't cry.

• Jack : It's a full moon...

  Jack , David : [remembering the warning they received]  Beware the moon...

  David : And stick to the road. Oops.

  Jack : I vote we go back to the Slaughtered Lamb.

• Jack : Did you hear that?

  David : I heard that.

  Jack : What was it?

  David : Could be a lot of things.

  Jack : Yeah?

  David : A coyote.

  Jack : There aren't any coyotes in England.

  David : The Hound of the Baskervilles.

  Jack : Pecos Bill.

  David : Heathcliff.

  Jack : Heathcliff didn't howl!

  David : No, but he was on the moors.

• Jack : [describing his funeral]  Debbie Klein cried a lot. So, so, you know what she does? She's soooo grief-stricken, she runs to find solace in Mark Levine's bed.

  David : Mark... Levine?

  Jack : An asshole! Life mocks me even in death!

• Jack : Have you ever talked to a corpse? It's boring.

• Jack : Now, I'm really sorry to be upsetting you, but I have to warn you.

  David : Warn me?

  Jack : We were attacked by a werewolf.

  David : [putting his hands over his ears]  I'm not listening to this!

  Jack : On the moors, we were attacked by a lycanthrope, a werewolf. I was murdered, an unnatural death, and now I walk the earth in limbo until the werewolf's curse is lifted.

  David : Shut up!

  Jack : The wolf's bloodline must be severed; the last remaining werewolf must be destroyed. It's you, David.

• Dart Player : You made me miss.

  Jack : Sorry.

  Dart Player : I've never missed that board before.

• Jack : David, you are hurting my feelings!

  David : Hurting your feelings? Has it occurred to you that it might be unsettling to see you arise from the grave to visit me?

• David : [sees Jack's reflection in bathroom mirror and shrieks]  You're not real.

  Jack : Ah, don't be a putz, David. Come here.

  [motions, walks out of bathroom and looks inside bedroom door] 

  Jack : A nurse, huh?

  David : [closes bedroom door]  Shhh. Come on.

  [motions and walks to living room] 

  David : What are you doing here?

  Jack : I wanted to see you.

  [picks up Mickey Mouse figure, moves its arm and uses high-pitched voice] 

  Jack : Hi, David!

  David : Put that down! Okay, you've seen me. Now, go away.

  Jack : I'm sorry I'm upsetting you, David, but you don't understand what's going on.

  David : I understand all right. You're one of the "undead," and I'm a werewolf.

  Jack : Yes, that's right.

  David : Get out of here, Jack.

  Jack : Tomorrow night's the full moon. You're gonna change. You'll become...

  Jack : I know. I know. A monster.

  Jack : You've gotta kill yourself, David, before it's too late.

  David : Are you really dead, Jack?

  Jack : What do you think?

  David : I think I've lost my mind. I think you're not real. I think you're just another part of bad dream.

  Jack : You've gotta believe me David.

  David : Believe what? That tomorrow night, under the full moon, I'll sprout hair and fangs and eat people? Bullshit!

  Jack : Oh, goddammit, David, please believe me! You'll kill and make others like me. I'm not havin' a nice time here. You've gotta take your own life.

  David : I will not accept this. Go away.

  Jack : This is not pretend, David.

  David : I will not be threatened by a walking meatloaf!

• [Appearing for the first time as the undead] 

  Jack : Can I have a piece of toast?

• Jack : Ah, fuck, David... what IS THAT?

• [first lines] 

  Truck Driver : That way is Proctor, and over here is the moors. I go this way.

  Jack : Thanks for the ride, sir. You have lovely sheep.

  Truck Driver : Boys, keep off the moors, stick to the roads. The best to ya...

  David : Thanks again.

  [then to the sheep] 

  David : We'll miss you.

  David : Bye girls...

• David : I think Debbie Klein is a mediocre person with a good body.

  Jack : There is nothing mediocre about Debbie Klein's body.

  David : She's a jerk!

  Jack : You're talking about the woman I love.

  David : I'm talking about a girl you want to fuck, so give me a break.

  Jack : Alright. Well, I have to make love to her. It's really very simple. She has not choice.

  David : You know, it just fascinates me how much energy you spend on somebody so dull.

  Jack : There's nothing dull - about that body.

  David : We've known Debbie - what? Since the 8th grade? How many years of foreplay is that?

  Jack : She says she likes me too much.

• Jack : You scared me, you shithead!

• Jack : Those sheep shit on my pack.

• Jack : [to the truck driver]  You have very beautiful sheep.

• David : I could hang myself.

  Jack : No. No, if you did it wrong it could be painful. You'd choke to death.

• Jack : Excuse me,

  [pointing at the star on the wall] 

  Jack : What's that star on the wall for?

• Jack : Life mocks me... even in Death!

• Jack : Beware the moon, David.

• Jack : Do you have any hot soup?

  Barmaid : No.

  David : Well, do you have any coffee then?

  Barmaid : No.

  Jack : Do you have any hot chocolate?

  Barmaid : We've spirits and beers. If its something hot you want, you can have tea.

  Jack : Then you have tea?

  Barmaid : No.

• Jack : It's a pentangle, a five-pointed star. It's used in witchcraft. Lon Chaney, Jr., at Universal Studios maintained that's the mark of the Wolf Man.

• Jack : Oh shit David. What is that?

• Jack : Remember the Alamo.

  Barmaid : I beg your pardon?

  David : Oh, he was just joking.

  Barmaid : Joking? I remember the Alamo. I saw it once in London... in Leicester Square.

  Chess Player : She means in the Cinema--that film with John Wayne.

  David : Oh yeah, of course. Right, with Laurence Harvey. Very bloody.

  Chess Player : Bloody awful, if you ask me.

  [he and the bar patrons laugh uproariously]