New York Stories (1989)

Nick Nolte: Lionel Dobie (segment "Life Lessons")

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• Paulette : [Seeing a patrol car with two policemen in it]  Kiss the driver on the mouth. Then we'll talk.

  Lionel Dobie : [Disbelieving the request and laughing nervously]  What?

  Paulette : Come on, and show me how much you love me.

  Lionel Dobie : [Shaken and laughing nervously. After a pause]  What if I do? Huh?

  Paulette : Then I'll know your love is true, and if you don't, your name is King Bullshit, and I pack.

• Lionel Dobie : It's art. You give it up, you were never an artist in the first place.

• Lionel Dobie : [When Paulette sees Lionel appearing unexpectedly in Paulette's bedroom]  I just wanted to kiss your foot. Sorry, nothing personal.

• Paulette : I don't have to sleep with you anymore?

  Lionel Dobie : I'm your ally against horse dung and fraud. That's as far as it goes from now on.

• Lionel Dobie : You don't know how deep I go, or how down I get! I was married four times before you were born!

• Lionel Dobie : I have to pick up my assistant at the airport. I don't know why she can't take a cab like everybody else.