Boyhood (I) (2014)

Ethan Hawke: Dad

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• Dad : [Mason Jr. bowls a gutterball]  Alright, don't worry about it.

  Mason : I wish I could use the bumpers...

  Dad : You don't want the bumpers, life doesn't give you bumpers.

• Mason : Dad, there's no real magic in the world, right?

  Dad : What do you mean?

  Mason : You know, like elves and stuff. People just made that up.

  Dad : Oh, I don't know. I mean, what makes you think that elves are any more magical than something like a whale? Yoy know what I mean? What if I told you a story about how underneath the ocean, there was this giant sea mammal that used sonar and sang songs and it was so big that its heart was the size of a car and you could crawl through the arteries? I mean, you'd think that was pretty magical, right?

• Mason : So what's the point?

  Dad : Of what?

  Mason : I don't know, any of this. Everything.

  Dad : Everything? What's the point? I mean, I sure as shit don't know. Neither does anybody else, okay? We're all just winging it, you know? The good news is you're feeling stuff. And you've got to hold on to that.

• Dad : [while canvassing for the 2008 Presidential Election]  Go get that McCain sign, would you?

  Mason : What?

  Dad : Get the McCain sign. Go rip it up, come on. Get it, get it, get it, go, go, go!

  Dad : [to Mason, after he gets the McCain sign]  Good job, good job. Proud of you, son.

  Samantha : You guys are gonna get us arrested.

  Dad : Look, I'm a patriot, all right? And sometimes in this life you gotta fight.

• Dad : Top of volume two, first four tracks. You've got "Band on the Run" into "My Sweet Lord" into "Jealous Guy" into "Photograph." Come on! It's like the perfect segue. You've got Paul who takes you to the party, George who talks to you about God, John is just "No, it's about love and pain" and then Ringo who just says "Hey, can't we enjoy what we have while we have it?"

• Dad : Is she cute?

  Mason : Yeah.

  Dad : All right, well, here's what you do, all right, first off you gotta ask a girl a lot of questions, then you have to listen to the answers, actually be interested in her, all right, If you can do those things, you'll be light years ahead of all the other guys.

• Dad : [frustrated with the monosyllabic answers Mason Jr. and Samantha are giving him]  No, no, no. I'm not gonna be *that* guy. You know, the "biological father, who I see on the weekends, and I make small talk with him while he drives me places and buys me shit." No.

  Samantha : Dad, these questions are kind of hard to answer.

  Dad : What's so hard to answer about "what sculpture are you making"?

  Samantha : It's abstract!

• Dad : Have you heard of Sarah Palin?

  Samantha : Yes.

  Dad : What's the one thing you know about Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter?

  Samantha : She's pregnant.

  Dad : That's right and what is the one thing you are *not* going to be in a couple of years when you turn 17?

  Samantha : Pregnant?

  Dad : That's right. All right now, what are the two ways that you can achieve that goal? First is... not have any sex, okay, that's the first way, okay, just not engage in that that did not work out very well for your mother and me; and what's the second way?

  [Mason tries to leave] 

  Dad : Where are you going?

  Mason : Bathroom.

  Dad : You don't want to go to the bathroom. Sit down Mason, just sit down.

  [looks towards Samantha] 

  Dad : What's the second way? Huh?

  [looks towards Mason] 

  Dad : Is your mother talked to you guys about this stuff?

  Samantha : [shy and embarrassed]  No. Dad. Dad.

  Dad : Wait, no, she talked to you about... contraception? Huh? What? Is she... condoms...

  Samantha : No, dad, please, stop.

  Dad : She talked about it? What? What?

  Samantha : Dad!

  Dad : Does Garett have a condom?

  Samantha : Oh god! Dad!

• Dad : Am I... am I your only ex at this party?

  Mom : [chuckles]  Yes. I'm not your only wife here though.

• Dad : These high school love things, they never work out. Here, come here. I mean, everybody's just changing so much, you know'? The odds of two young people staying on the same wavelength are...