Semi-Tough (1977)

Kris Kristofferson: Shake Tiller

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• Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : I've been tellin' Barbara Jane about B.E.A.T.

  Friedrich Bismark : Well, I hope you're not looking for any answers.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : Oh, I don't even know the questions.

  Friedrich Bismark : There aren't any questions. That's why there aren't any answers.

• Billy Clyde Puckett : Shake, old buddy, you know what I'm choosing to do?

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : What?

  Billy Clyde Puckett : I am choosing to win this fucking game.

• Puddin Patterson Sr. : Boy, if I don't miss my guess, you're getting darker every time you catch the ball. In fact, you look darker now than before you started the game.

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : It's true. I'm getting this urge to tap-dance and play the saxophone.

• Barbara Jane Bookman : That pisses me off! I'm telling you, America is the only country in the world that treats its citizens like they were crooks. Oh, they make me so fucking mad.

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : You make yourself mad. It's got nothing to do with them.

• Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : It was a slow-motion dream sequence. Everything was semi-frozen in time, moving like surreal dancers in some cosmic fantasy. It was like there was time in that moment to look at everything. There was time to experience every detail in a tapestry. It was...

  Billy Clyde Puckett : Are we going to get laid tonight?

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : Probably.

• Billy Clyde Puckett : Orgies?

  Bud McNair : Within the bounds of good taste. What kind of orgies?

  Billy Clyde Puckett : What kind of orgies you want? We got your post-game orgies, your pre-game orgies.

  Bud McNair : You mean, before a game?

  Billy Clyde Puckett : Sure! That's how we get so loose. How do you think we beat Baltimore the other night? Nothing like an orgy to loosen you up. Now, you take old Shake here, he's just about all orgied out. Ain't you Shake?

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : No question about it.

  Billy Clyde Puckett : No question about it. And Barbara Jane, she just loves it.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : Asshole. You shut up.

  Billy Clyde Puckett : She hasn't missed one yet.

• Barbara Jane Bookman : Where's the bearskin rug?

  Billy Clyde Puckett : T.J. Lambert's got it.

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : He had it.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : Had it?

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : Right.

  Billy Clyde Puckett : He came in here the other night. There was a stewardess laying there on the rug. He just rolled her up like a burrito and took off with her.

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : I heard he ate the rug, too.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : I guess I'm home.

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : Welcome back.

• Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : Actions is what counts. All the rest is theory time. It's bullshit. The only reality is in the moment and what you doing counts. Not what you think you've been doing or hope you'll be doing.

• Barbara Jane Bookman : You found yourself? For real?

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : Well, what's real?

  Billy Clyde Puckett : Shit.

• Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : He's a real bucket of chuckles, isn't he?

• Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : There's lots of people getting into that stuff like B.E.A.T. now, and not just fucked-up people. Like movie actors and rock stars. People like, eh, what's his name? John Denver. Valerie Harper, Joe Namath.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : Makes you feel better?

• Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : I went to B.E.A.T.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : Went to beat who?

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : Bismark Energy Attack Training. It helps you get your head together. It teaches you to live in the present.

• Billy Clyde Puckett : There's a 7.

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : The one in red?

  Billy Clyde Puckett : Yeah.

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : Yeah. She looks about semi-rich. Woah, son! There's a woman that might be a 9.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : Where's a 9?

  Billy Clyde Puckett : You're the only 9 I know.

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : 8 1/2.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : 10.

  Billy Clyde Puckett : Ain't no such thing as a 10.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : Are you gonna start that shit again?

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : You're real close, honey, but you ain't no 10.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : I damn sure am.

  Billy Clyde Puckett : Ain't no such thing in the world as a 10.

  Barbara Jane Bookman : You thought Emily Kirkland was a 10.

  Billy Clyde Puckett : No. I thought Emily Kirkland and her sister *together* were a 10.

• Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : You can learn to dig it. I found some new kinks I never even knew I had.

  Billy Clyde Puckett : Good God, you'd get off on anything. You know that?

• Billy Clyde Puckett : What do you say we... get a couple cheese burgers and stick 'em down our throat?

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : Sounds good. B.J.?

• Billy Clyde Puckett : You know what I am choosing to do?

  Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : What?

  Billy Clyde Puckett : I am choosing to win this fucking game.

• Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : What do you think?

  Billy Clyde Puckett : I tell you what I think. I think B.E.A.T. is one of the semi-great things that I ever took in my life.

• Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : She don't want to go. She'll go, but she don't want to go.

  Billy Clyde Puckett : They get that way when they get to be wives.

• Marvin 'Shake' Tiller : How are you supposed to share something with somebody who doesn't even understand what it is you're supposed to be sharing?