Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

John Lithgow: Doug

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• Doug : Kathy, in all seriousness, you are the consummate host. You are a knockout. And if I wasn't on my third wife, I'd steal you away.

  Kathy : Oh, thank you.

  Jeana : I would personally love a sister wife. Trust me.

• Beatriz : Do I know you?

  Alex : Oh, Doug's famous. He's been on the news. You know, he's a mogul.

  Doug : I have opinions and because I have money, people listen.

  Beatriz : I don't know why, but I think I know you.

  Doug : Well, maybe. Ever dance in Vegas?

• Doug : I have had, all the rushes there are, every one. I've been to the buffet of life. I've tasted everything and I'm telling you, being in Africa, okay, where all the species originated, every one, including us, going out into the wild when it's still dark and it's quiet, except for these strange, prehistoric sounds, and waiting - for some beast to emerge out of the bush. There's no bigger rush.

  Grant : I bet.

  Doug : There's no better high, not - not sex, not drugs, not money. And facing that creature down and looking in its eyes and taking it. I don't consider it murder. I don't. It is a killing, obviously, but it's just this deep, primal thing. It's like this original dance of man and beast, man and nature. The struggle for survival. It's very pure. Not to get too airy-fairy.

• Jeana : Doug loses his manners all the time. Don't give it two thoughts. Every time I go out with him he embarrasses me.

  Doug : Oh, you're well compensated.

  Jeana : See? He's rude. He can't help it.

• Beatriz : For a moment, I thought you were a different man. A man that bought the land in Tlatecuhtli. For a minute, I freaked out, you know? Really, because I have to say, if you had been that man, I would've thought that fate brought us together.

  Doug : For what?

  Beatriz : I don't know. Revenge, maybe? I should kill you or something?