The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

Woody Harrelson: Mr. Bruner

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Quotes 

• Nadine : What the... why is that baby in your house?

  Mr. Bruner : Oh shit! How the hell that thing get in here?

• Mr. Bruner : [reading a text sent by Nadine to a boy she has a crush on]  "You're complicated, and simple, and I feel this connection between us. I feel like I already know you." This is kinda sweet, I think you're overreacting. "I just want to be with you. I want to give you... head. I want you to put your mouth on my tits. I want to feel you inside me. We can do it in the Petland stockroom."

  Nadine : Say something... Oh my God, say something! Please, help me!

  Mr. Bruner : You need to watch out for run-on sentences.

• Mr. Bruner : Wow. I actually was writing my own suicide note just now. I have 32 fleeting minutes of happiness during lunch, which has been eaten up again and again by the same especially badly dressed student, and I finally thought I would rather have the dark nothingness.

• Mr. Bruner : Look, I'm not very good at this kinda thing. But I think we both know what needs to be said right now. So, I'm just gonna come right out and say it.

  [pause] 

  Mr. Bruner : Get out of the car.

• Nadine : You know what? I'm gonna go ahead, and I'm gonna tell you the real reason I'm having my lunch with you today. You see, I don't really have any friends, at the moment, and, to be completely honest with you, I'm not interested. At all. My entire generation is a bunch of mouth breathers. They literally have a seizure if you take their phone away for a second, they can't communicate without emojis, and they actually think that the world wants to know that they are "eating a taco, exclamation point, smiley face, smiley face", like we give a fuck. I... am an old soul. I like old music, and old movies, and even old people. I have nothing in common with the people out there, and they have nothing in common with me.

  Mr. Bruner : Nadine?

  Nadine : Max?

  Mr. Bruner : Maybe... nobody likes you.

  Nadine : [pause]  You're a dick.

• Nadine : Hey.

  Mr. Bruner : Busy.

  Nadine : I don't wanna take up a ton of your time, but I'm gonna kill myself. I just thought an adult should know.

• [Nadine is sleeping at the desk in an empty classroom] 

  Mr. Bruner : [whispering]  Nadine!

  [taps at her temple with his finger] 

  Mr. Bruner : Nadine...

  Nadine : [Sleepily, eyes closed]  Hmm?

  Mr. Bruner : Hey... Wake up. You had a brain operation. It worked! They've made you pleasant and agreeable.

  [Nadine looks at him annoyed] 

  Mr. Bruner : Ah, just wishful daydreaming. The bell rang. Leave. Please.

• [first lines] 

  Nadine : Look I don't wanna take up a ton of your time, but I'm gonna kill myself. I just thought someone should know. I don't really know how this works. I'm probably gonna jump off an overpass in front of a semi, so... Or U-Haul, maybe, just not a bus. I'm not gonna be a dick and make people watch, but it has to be big; it's gotta be so big that it just...

  [snaps her fingers] 

  Nadine : Done; kills me. Lights out. 'Cause if it just maims me, and I'm like...

  [imitates differently abled person] 

  Nadine : Well then how's that good for anyone? Then I gotta find a nurse to smother me. How am I gonna get across *smothering* if I'm...

  [imitates differently abled person again] 

  Nadine : We don't need to get caught up in the minutia; I just thought that an adult, s- you should know.

  Mr. Bruner : Wow. This is, uh... A lot to take in, Nadine; I- I wish I knew what to say. Well, I was actually drafting my own suicide note just now.

• Mr. Bruner : Life's about taking risks. Don't be afraid to put yourself out there.

• Mr. Bruner : Are you having a problem today, Nadine?

  Nadine : Several. I don't really have any friends at the moment.