Singles (1992)

Campbell Scott: Steve Dunne

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• Steve Dunne : I just happened to be nowhere near your neighborhood.

• Steve Dunne : Linda, uh, it's me. I had to call you. It's about midnight. I was just having many beers. And, uh, I just wanted to say what I should have said at the dock. I fucking chickened out when I acted casual, like Mr. Casual. I should have said it. You... belong... with... me! We belong together. And what really pisses me off is that, now that we're really talking, you thought i proposed to you only because you were pregnant. What's that about! I mean... hey, this is not the bathroom! And you know maybe if I had said some of these things at the dock it would have made a difference because, but I think we made a big mistake because, we had good times and we had bad times, but we had times. And I would like to start over. I would like to be new to you. I want to be new to you. I want to be Mr. New. So call me back if you want to. But this is the last time I'll call. And, if you really needed to know how I feel, how I really feel, that's how I feel. I love you. And that's something you should know, so I won't bother you again. So, good night. And good bye. And call me back. Good bye.

• Steve Dunne : [calling Linda]  Linda Powell? Steve Dunne. Hey, yeah, I met you... 61 hours ago. Yeah, that was me. Listen, uh, do you want to get some dinner? Uh, how about some lunch? No lunch. Coffee? Water? How about some water? I'll meet you where you're already having lunch, and we'll have some water.

• Steve Dunne : My dad left home when I was eight. You know what he said to me? "Have fun, stay single." I was eight.

• Linda Powell : I was just nowhere near your neighborhood. Look, I don't need to be your girlfriend or anything. I just wanna know you again.

  Steve Dunne : What took you so long?

  Linda Powell : I was stuck in traffic.

• Steve Dunne : If I had a personal conversation with God, I would ask him to create this girl.

• Steve Dunne : I broke up with someone recently: Jennifer, my last girlfriend. I did it in a crowded restaurant. She just stared at me with that look: How can you pass me up? I told her we weren't right and all the stuff we both knew. A week later I realized I was wrong, tried to get back together with her. She won't see me. Now she's with Tony. Tony knows my friend Bailey, who's friends with the girl Tony's going out with on the side, Rita. Rita who I broke up with to go out with Jennifer. So now do I tell Jennifer that I know Tony's going out with Rita or do I tell Rita that I know about Tony and Jennifer? Tony will tell Jennifer that I was still going out with Rita while I was going out with her. How does stuff get so complicated? I don't know.

• David Bailey : Tonight I'll be the super me.

  Steve Dunne : What if the super you meets the super her and the super her rejects the super you?

  David Bailey : Then it's no problem.

  Steve Dunne : Uh-huh. Why?

  David Bailey : Because it was never you, it was just an act. I live my life like a French movie, Steve.

• Doug Hughley : You know what? We're throwing down tonight over on Aloha Street! Yeah! We're gonna have three bands; it's gonna' be insane! Would you... would you get up and do a little "Wheels of Steel" for us?

  Steve Dunne : Oh, no, no...

  Doug Hughley : You sure? You're the only man I know who could mix Elvis Costello and Public Enemy!

  [singing] 

  Doug Hughley : What's so funny about... peace, peace, peace... love and under... peace, peace. / Death Row, what does a brother know? peace, peace. / Yow, wow, wow, wow, wow, kapow! You're the King, man, you are the King!

  Doug Hughley : You've *gotta* be there, man, you *must* be there!

  [looks down; notices that Steve is buying several different pregnancy tests] 

  Doug Hughley : Of course, you may be busy.

• David Bailey : Always get their numbers Steve. Tonight I got 20 numbers.

  David Bailey : [Bailey and Steve are now outside by a newstand]  Twenty numbers.

  Steve Dunne : Bailey, you got 20 numbers of 20 girls you will never call, never date, never see in the daylight. 20 numbers that exist only to make you feeI, like a guy who can go out and get 20 numbers.

• Steve Dunne : I'm probably sterile. It runs in my family.

• Steve Dunne : Tell me, what do you really want from a guy?

  Janet Livermore : Well when I first moved here from Tucson. I wanted a guy with looks, security, caring. Someone with their own place. Someone who said "bless you" or "gesundheit" when I sneezed. And someone who liked the same things as me, but not exactly. Someone who loves me.

  Steve Dunne : Tall order.

  Janet Livermore : I scaled it down a little.

  Steve Dunne : What is it now?

  Janet Livermore : Someone who says "gesundheit" when I sneeze. Though I prefer "bless you". It's nicer.

• Janet Livermore : So I'm not an Amazon woman?

  Steve Dunne : You're from the high plains, Janet.

• Linda Powell : [on Steve]  This guy plays no games.

  [cut to Steve] 

  Steve Dunne : [to himself]  I've got to play this one perfectly.

• [Steve and Linda had sex, then he didn't call for four days] 

  Linda Powell : I just don't want to play games.

  Steve Dunne : Games? If I was playing games, I would have waited a week to call you... What I mean is...

• Linda Powell : So, who are your neighbors?

  Steve Dunne : That's Bailey, right there. He's a maitre d', he keeps us all in free meals. On the corner there, that's Debbie Hunt. She actually consumes men instead of food. And that is Cliff. He delivers flowers, has four jobs, works in the coffee shop around the corner. Upstairs is Janet Livermore. She works there too. She's saving up for architecture schooI. Cliff and Janet... That's it.

  Linda Powell : You sound like me, talking about my family.