“The Tao of Steve” quotes
(2000)
Title The Tao of Steve
Year 2000
Director Jenniphr Goodman
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Year 2000
Director Jenniphr Goodman
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
All actors – Donal Logue, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines, John Harrington Bland, Jessica Gormley, Mercedes Herrero, Cheryl Anne Jaroslaw, Nina Jaroslaw, David Aaron Baker, Dana Goodman, Greer Goodman, Dave Bynum
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“- Dex: Doing stuff is overrated. Like Hitler. He did a lot. But don't we all wish he woulda just stayed home and gotten stoned?
- Syd: So you're only options are to get stoned or commit genocide?”“You have to do something excellent in her presence, thus demonstrating your sexual worthiness.”
“- Syd: If you're falling in love with me, why are you with all these other women?
- Dex: Am I supposed to remain celibate while I bask in like the warm glow of your annihilating contempt?”“- Dex: What are you excellent at?
- Dave: I'm an excellent camper.
- Dex: But you can't camp in front of a woman.”“The Tao of Steve isn't about picking up lots of women. It's about being the best person you can be.”
When I'm hanging out with a woman, that's all I'm doing is hanging out, talking, listening. I'm not sitting there thinking about how to get in bed with her. And this completely confuses them because they're saying "Wait a minute. I'm so much better looking than this guy. Isn't he attracted to me?".
“- Dex: Dating's so tricky, that's all. And you're really cool. You have a great personality. I just don't wanna mess up our friendship.
- Julie: Friendship? We just met!”“If you're out with this girl and even thinking about getting laid, you're finished, cuz women can smell an agenda like shit on a shoe.”
“I think seriously that most people want a composite of the opposite sex. I'm never going to get Rachel Welch with the personality of Lucille Ball. I mean my biggest fear is that I'm gonna marry the woman that I want to hang out with and talk to in my golden years and then die in a fiery car crash when I'm forty and I miss all those years of...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Dex: If you're hanging out with women as friends, your doing your research in the wrong library.
- Dave: What's wrong with being friends with women?
- Dex: Nothing, but getting out of that category of 'friend' is harder than like getting out of Alcatraz.”“Steve is the prototypical cool American male. He's the guy on his horse, the guy alone. He has his own code of honor, his own code of ethics, his own rules of living, man. He never, ever tries to impress the women but he always gets the girl.”
“- Julie: You have so many great books.
- Dex: The better to seduce you with.
- Julie: What?
- Dex: The better to deduce the truth with.”“Don Giovanni slept with thousands of women because he was afraid he wouldn't be loved by one.”
You think all Buddhist monks are like the Dalai Lama? There are guys in Nepal who are like, "What should I do? Should I carry packs of heavy shit for Westerners up to the top of the base camp on Mt. Everest, or should I stay down here in Katmandu and maybe just chant all day and check out chicks and pretend to be holy?".
“- Rick: Dex is just bitter because he's never been in love.
- Dex: I love my dog.”You can't just go up to a woman and say, "Hi! I'm Dave! I like smoking pot, reading the sports page on the john... wanna have sex with me?".
“- Dex: There's a certain order you're supposed to do things in, and telling someone you love them is definitely last in that order.
- Dave: When are you supposed to tell 'em?
- Dex: Maybe your 40th wedding anniversary or something?”“- Syd: What do you look for in a woman?
- Dex: Low Standards.”
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