Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1991)

David Hewlett: Deadpan

Quotes 

• Deadpan : You're so damned happy in your safe little circle. Do you know where you'll be thirty years from now? Exercising...

  [begins snapping fingers] 

  Deadpan : ... bargain hunting, 3-D TV in your back-pack jet. You'll have a boss on your neck, kids at your feet, head deep in debt, can't get to sleep. Cause you'll be thinking back to now, going, "I remember then...", but you don't, you missed it, and you'll miss it again. So when you're lying there crying out... "Where is enlightenment?" Just remember how... I told you now; it's in the sound... of one hand.

  [fingersnap flourish] 

• Bridey : You ever hear of radioactivity?

  Deadpan : Yeah?

  Bridey : I think radioactivity is neat. I like the sound of it. You know why? They say radioactive things have a half-life as they decay. I think I'm radioactive.

• Chester : All these godless, pinko eggheads keep up their pugwash about the poor Hungarians, the poor Lebanese, the poor everyone else... I say, *burn* the Poor.

  Deadpan : Now, that's what I call courage.

• Deadpan : [to the motel manager]  Hey, daddy. There are some rhythms... man was not meant to swing.

• Bridey : I'd like to have a house with an electric range. So big, I'd need an electric vacuum cleaner to clean it, and maybe even an electric eggbeater.

  Deadpan : Sounds convenient.