The War at Home (1996)

Martin Sheen: Bob Collier

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Quotes 

• Jeremy Collier : I'm not having dinner

  Bob Collier : And why not?

  Jeremy Collier : I had a big breakfast.

  Bob Collier : Jeremy, I'm not joking around out here!

  Jeremy Collier : I'm not laughin' around in here!

• Bob Collier : Look, I know you had a rough time over there.

  Jeremy Collier : 'Over there'! You can't even say it.

  Bob Collier : What?

  Jeremy Collier : Vietnam

• Bob Collier : Seen all your stuff downstairs.

  Jeremy Collier : I want Karen to take me to the bus station.

  Bob Collier : Alright, fine.

  [pulls money out of his pocket] 

  Bob Collier : I got twenty-one hundred dollars here for you; it's all the cash I had at the office. It's not a fortune, but it'll get you where you want to go, and help you get started if you're careful with it.

  Bob Collier : [pauses]  And look, don't think that I'm kicking you out of the house, see. I think you should leave for for your own good, I think it's the right thing to do, and it's my responsibility as a father. Once you're away from here, and had time to think about, I think you'll agree.

  Jeremy Collier : I don't want it.

  Bob Collier : Well I want you to have it.

  Jeremy Collier : No you don't. You want me to take it, so you won't feel guilty, so you won't feel responsible.

  Bob Collier : [sighs]  It's funny how I can be so wrong. I honestly thought you were gonna say 'thank you'.

  Jeremy Collier : Thank you? That's what you thought I'd say? No. You just want everyone to think you did the right thing.

  Bob Collier : I'm not doing this on what anybody might think.

  [puts the money down] 

  Bob Collier : I'll have Karen drive you wherever you want to go.

  [starts to close the door] 

  Bob Collier : I hope you'll think better of me someday.

• Bob Collier : Two hundred and ninety nine.

  David : What?

  Bob Collier : Two hundred and ninety nine, I said, don't tell me you don't know what that means David. I think your old man knows what it means don't you Howe? That's your goddamn birthday David. For when they pulled the numbers out for the draft card lottery. Two ninety-nine, that's the number that saved your ass from having to go and fight in Vietnam! Would you like to know what Jeremy's number was? It was eight, eight, EIGHT!

  [throws cloth at David] 

  Bob Collier : Don't you ever tell me what to say or what I can't say in my own house, or I'll take this goddamn turkey and shove it down your throat!

• Jeremy Collier : Look if you're going to talk to me about car-wrecks you can stop right now!

  Bob Collier : What? What are you talking about?

  Jeremy Collier : You told me that more people die in car-wrecks each year than died in Vietnam.

  Bob Collier : Well, I may have said that...

  Jeremy Collier : Not 'may have', did!

• Karen Collier : [Jeremy is sitting outside on the porch]  You know it could be that he's waiting for someone to talk to him.

  Bob Collier : Maybe... but it's not us.

• Bob Collier : What was that?

  Jeremy Collier : I said the blessing.

  Bob Collier : I didn't hear anything.

  Jeremy Collier : I wasn't talking to you.

• Jeremy Collier : Look, it's not that I'm asking for the car...

  Bob Collier : Hm?

  Jeremy Collier : But you know Jesus didn't have a job.

  Bob Collier : That's right. He didn't have a car either, and he walked everywhere.

• [repeated line] 

  Bob Collier : Did I ever tell you I was friends with a famous cowboy?

• Bob Collier : This is my house! I make the goddamn rules here!

• Karen Collier : You know Jeremy was screaming in his sleep again.

  Bob Collier : Yeah I know.

  Karen Collier : I think that's what's been bothering Mother.

• Jeremy Collier : [from inside his room]  Fuck off.

  Bob Collier : [speechless at first]  What did you say?

  Jeremy Collier : I said fuck off, go fuck yourself!

  Bob Collier : [furious]  I'm gonna beat the shit outta you!

  [pounds on door] 

• Bob Collier : This is MY house!

  Karen Collier : This is your house? You know what, you can HAVE IT! What does that mean, this is my house? What does that MEAN?

  [runs upstairs] 

• Jeremy Collier : [it is late at night, and Jeremy has caught his father sneaking peanut brittle]  What is that, peanut brittle?

  Bob Collier : Yeah, your mother made some tonight for Thanksgiving. I thought I'd be clever and sneak a piece, when you just come in here and catch me.

  Jeremy Collier : Well if it makes you feel any better, she probably counted all the pieces before she went to bed. She'll wake up, check on it.

  Bob Collier : [looks scared]  Y'think?

  Jeremy Collier : Yup.

• Uncle Howe : [Bob is cutting the turkey]  Listen, Bob, if you hold that knife right here, then you get a better-

  [attempts to guide Bob's hand, and the knife cuts Bob's hand] 

  Uncle Howe : Oh, oh, I'm sorry there, Bobby!

  Bob Collier : [mutters to himself]  Why don't you carve the goddamn turkey yourself, you old fart!

  Uncle Howe : [is surprised]  Uh, what's that?

  Bob Collier : [looks Howe squarely in the eye]  I said why don't you carve the goddamn turkey yourself, you old fart!