Daily Dialogue — November 4, 2012
Ollie: Look, you’ve got two minutes, and then we have to go, OK? Or I’m gonna leave.
Gertrude: Would you stop rushing me?
Ollie: I don’t understand how somebody who had all day sitting around to get ready waits till 20 minutes before we have to leave!
Gertrude: You try getting anything accomplished with this big gut in your way!
Ollie: This is one of the few days of the year that I can be fired for being late!
Gertrude: Anytime that you wanna carry this baby, Ollie, you let me know! OK? I would be glad to go back to wearing regular dresses instead of this tent!
Ollie: The dress looks fine. It’s gorgeous, OK? It’s beautiful.
Gertrude: Yeah, until I’m standing next to Janet Jackson or Sheryl Crow. Then you’ll see how not fine it looks.
Ollie: Gertie, I asked you, please, to use your own brush, OK? Can you just not use my brush?
Gertrude: Don’t start.
Ollie: It’s just that every time I wanna comb my hair I spend 15 minutes taking these long, bushy hairs out of my brush. And I mean, you ask me to…
Gertrude walks away crying.
Ollie: I’m sorry. Baby, I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
Gertrude: You don’t understand what it’s like to be this fat! I’ve always been thin, and now I’m a disgusting pig! And it’s my first time going to the Video Music Awards and all the other girls are gonna be skinny, and I’m gonna look like a whale!
Ollie: Baby, baby, they’re just skinny ’cause they’re all coked-out whores.
Gertrude: I wanna be a coked-out whore!
Ollie: OK, you can be a coked-out whore too. You can be a coked-out, coked-out whore.
Gertrude: I’m sorry. I should be more sensitive. I’m sorry.
Ollie: I should be more sensitive, honey.
Gertrude: I know.
Ollie: Yes.
Gertrude: I know.
Ollie: Baby, we have to go now, OK?
Gertrude: OK.
Ollie: I love you. We have to go now.
Gertrude: OK. I love you too.
Ollie: All right, let’s go. OK?
Gertrude: Just give me two minutes.
— Ollie (Jennifer Lopez), Gertrude (Ben Affleck), Jersey Girl (2004), written by Kevin Smith
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is Kevin Smith, suggested by Sean Harris. Today’s suggestion by BillieJeanVK.
Trivia: Based on writer/director Kevin Smith’s experiences as a father.
Dialogue On Dialogue: “I wanna be a coked-out whore!” Not often a writer gets the opportunity to slot that line into a script.
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