The Squid and the Whale Quotes

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Frank Berkman: Mom and me versus you and Dad.

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Bernard Berkman: [Waiting to be taken away in an ambulance after having a heart attack] Degolas.
Joan Berkman: What?
Bernard Berkman: It means "bitch." Don't you remember?
Joan Berkman: You're calling me a bitch?
Bernard Berkman: No, don't you remember the last line of Godard's "A Bout De Souffle"? Belmondo calls Seberg a bitch. "Degolas." We saw it at the Thalia with the Dicksteins. I got you in for the children's price. You were pregnant with Walt.
Joan Berkman: Like six weeks.
Bernard Berkman: I still got you in for a children's ticket. You told me you didn't like Godard. You thought the jump-cuts were - [He is loaded into the ambulance]
Bernard Berkman: I'd check for the cat behind the ashcans, under the Golodners' stoop!
Joan Berkman: OK.

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Bernard Berkman: Joan, let me ask you something. All that work I did at the end of our marriage, making dinners, cleaning up, being more attentive. It never was going to make a difference, was it? You were leaving no matter what...
Joan Berkman: You never made a dinner.
Bernard Berkman: I made burgers that time you had pneumonia.

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Bernard Berkman: You married?
Ivan: Nope.
Bernard Berkman: The whole thing's very complicated.

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Joan Berkman: You're early.
Bernard Berkman: Hi, Joan.
Joan Berkman: Don't feed him the generic stuff.
Bernard Berkman: What?
Joan Berkman: Frank says you're feeding the cat generic food. Get Purina, it's what he likes.
Bernard Berkman: It's the same damn thing, Joan.
Joan Berkman: OK. It's not, but...
Bernard Berkman: He's my cat, too. Remember when he got stuck in the wall in New Hampshire and I rescued him? I know how to handle him.
Joan Berkman: It was a radiator.
Bernard Berkman: What?
Joan Berkman: He got stuck in a radiator. You trimmed your beard.
Bernard Berkman: Yeah, it was starting to get a little feral. You look well.
Joan Berkman: Yeah? Thanks.
Bernard Berkman: Things are good here. Teaching is going well. And I'm playing the best tennis of my life. Maybe that's an illusion, but... it feels that way.

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Lili: [they kiss] Why did you stop?
Bernard Berkman: I'm your teacher.
Lili: You know, I've always wondered what it'd be like to **** you.

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