“Barfly” quotes

“It's hatred. It's the only thing that lasts.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“This is a world where everybody's gotta do something. Y'know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody's gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Wanda: I can't stand people, I hate them.
- Henry: Oh yeah?
- Wanda: Do you hate them?
- Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.”
Faye Dunaway - Wanda Wilcox
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Henry: I'm broke. Can't buy another drink.
- Wanda: You mean you don't have any money?
- Henry: No money, no job, no rent. Hey, I'm back to normal.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry
Faye Dunaway - Wanda Wilcox

“- Tully: Do you need a drink?
- Henry: Yeah, like a spider needs a fly.”
Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“Why did it have to be Eddie? He symbolizes everything that disgusts me. Obviousness. Unoriginal macho energy. Ladies man.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Tully: You can really write. Why do you live like a bum?
- Henry: I am a bum. What do you want me to do? Do you want me to write about the sufferings of the upper classes?
- Tully: This may be news to you but they suffer too.
- Henry: Hey baby, nobody suffers like the poor.”
Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Henry: Some guys really know how to get the women.
- Jim: Now, you don't know how?
- Henry: Hey, I can get one for ten minutes. That's my limit.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry
J.C. Quinn - Jim

“- Henry: Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do. All the things that I don't wanna be. Places I don't wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don't understand that.
- Jim: You're not supposed to think about it. I think the whole trick is not to think about it.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry
J.C. Quinn - Jim

“- Tully: I take it you don't care for my world.
- Henry: Well, baby, look around. It's a cage with golden bars.”
Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“As my hands drop the last desperate pen, in some cheap room, they will find me there and never know my name, my meaning, nor the treasure of my escape.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“I'd hate to be you if I were me.”
Frank Stallone - Eddie

“- Henry: You know, in the guest house, you could write in peace.
- Tully: Hey, Tully baby, nobody who could write worth a damn could ever write in peace, Jesus.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry
Mickey Rourke - Tully

“- Wanda: Maybe he had a reason to kill those people.
- Henry: Yeah well most people think they do.”

Faye Dunaway - Wanda Wilcox
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Tully: Why did you send your stuff to us?
- Henry: Well, I liked the title of the mag. It boggled my scrotum.”

Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“Grow's for plants. I hate roots.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Tully: Why don't you stop drinking? Anybody can be a drunk.
- Henry: Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.”
Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“I drink. And when I drink, I move in the wrong direction.”
Faye Dunaway - Wanda Wilcox

“- Wanda: I hate the police, don't you?
- Henry: I don't know, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.”
Faye Dunaway - Wanda Wilcox
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Eddie: All you gotta do is beg for a little mercy.
- Henry: Quittin' to you would be like swallowin' piss for eternity.”
Frank Stallone - Eddie
Mickey Rourke - Henry