St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

Rob Lowe: Billy Hicks

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• Billy : Jules, y'know, honey... this isn't real. You know what it is? It's St. Elmo's Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them... there was no fire. There wasn't even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They made it up because they thought they needed it to keep them going when times got tough, just like you're making up all of this. We're all going through this. It's our time at the edge.

• Billy : The wet look is in, asshole.

  Alec : That's Mr. Asshole to you.

• Jules : I'm just so tired, Billy. I never thought I'd be so tired at 22. I just don't even know who to be anymore.

  Billy Hicks : Join the club. You know, no one was buying this together-woman-of-the-eighties stuff anyway.

• Billy : So you lost your job? I've lost twenty of them since graduation. Plus a wife and kid. And, in a new development this morning, a handful of hair in the shower drain.

• Myra : Where did you two meet?

  Billy : [whispers]  PRISON!

• Billy : I should have had a vasectomy at birth! Let me tell you something Al, you ever have boys, do them a favor and get them neutered straight away. If they ever knock up some little slut, they're the ones who're fucked!

  [to his wife] 

  Billy : Fucked for life! I hate you, you little bitch!

• Billy : It ain't a party till something gets broken.

• Jules : All this time I was afraid you'd find out I wasn't fabulous.

  Billy Hicks : It's cool. All this time I was afraid you'd find out I was irresponsible.

• Wendy Beamish : Go get out of hand.

  Billy Hicks : I'm gonna keep in touch.

  Wendy Beamish : No, you will not.

• Alec : You're being arrested for drunk driving.

  Billy : Drunk definitely, I don't know if you could call it driving.

• Billy : It was like... a metaphysical... precision... collision!

  Jules : Wow. Wendy Was it good for you, too?

• Billy Hicks : You know, this smells to me like a little bit of self-created drama. I should know. I've been starring in a few of my own.

• Wendy Beamish : I miss school. Everything was really out of hand. In everyday life there's no chance to be out of hand. Do you ever think about it?

  Wendy Beamish : Not while I'm still a virgin.

  Billy Hicks : Why didn't you ever tell me that before?

  Wendy Beamish : I don't know.

  Billy Hicks : Come on. I mean, all those guys you went out with. Well, Stuey Newman?

  Wendy Beamish : Oh, please. Would you do it with Stuey Newman? Well?

• Jules : Do you know what I've been doing every day since I got fired?

  Billy Hicks : No. What?

  Jules : I've been going down to the hospital and sitting with my step-monster. We've had the best talks we've ever had. Of course, she's in a coma, which really pisses me off. Because this whole time I've waited for just one word,

  [bursts into tears] 

  Jules : about why my father hates me so much.

• Billy : So, you still a virgin?

  Wendy : Why is my sexual status so important to you?

  Billy : [pause]  Have I abused our friendship too much, or is there a chance I could ask for a going away present?

• Billy : [drunk, holding his saxophone]  Do you believe in premarital sax?