Night on Earth (1991)

Gena Rowlands: Victoria Snelling (segment "Los Angeles")

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• Victoria Snelling : Everyone wants to be a movie star!

  Corky : Look, lady, I like the movies and all and I see you're being serious, you know, but, that's not a real life for me, you know.

• Corky : Guys - can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.

  [laughs] 

  Victoria Snelling : Yeah, you can say that again.

• Victoria Snelling : [trying to make a phone call while the cab's radio's blasting]  Will you hold on a second please? Miss - would you please, uh, just turn the music off?

  Corky : [condescendingly turning it off]  Sure, Mom.

  Victoria Snelling : Thank you.

• Victoria Snelling : [on the phone]  I just spoke to him. Oh, he's going nuts as usual, ricocheting off the walls. I don't know what to do with him. I sent him ten actresses who were perfect; well, six of them were perfect. But he just keeps - he keeps wanting them younger and younger. Now, he wants someone 18 with absolutely no experience, but, the nerves of a paratrooper. He's not human. I think he's an android.

• Corky : I'm real particular, you know, and I'm also patient enough. I mean, at least I hope I am. Cause, you know, I don't know, maybe you got to wait awhile, you know. Cause, like, maybe it's not so easy to find like the exact, right guy, you know. Like, the one guy, you know.

  Victoria Snelling : Another mechanic, maybe? Huh?

  Corky : Hell, I don't care what he does. Just as long as he loves me, right - with his soul. You know, takes me for who I am.

• Victoria Snelling : I'm sorry I sound calm. I assure you I'm hysterical.

• Victoria Snelling : [on the phone]  I may be having a brilliant streak right here in the taxi. Yes, I'm really in a taxi. No, I can't tell you right now. Um, all I can say is: I have an idea.

• Victoria Snelling : Driving at night doesn't seem to bother you.

  Corky : Why should it?

  Victoria Snelling : For me it's a big problem. I have night blindness.

  Corky : Is that something that happens when you get old?

  Victoria Snelling : No. No, actually it isn't. It has nothing to do with age. I've had it all my life.

• Corky : I don't always want to be a cab driver.

  Victoria Snelling : What do you really want to be.

  Corky : A mechanic.

  Victoria Snelling : A mechanic?

  Corky : I practically know all there is to know about it. Both my brothers are mechanics. They're older than me; but, you know, cause I'm like a girl and I'm like still kinda young and all, I gotta kinda like work up to it, you know.